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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2321683, member: 1892&quot;]True. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No. The second? Easily. The first? No way, not a chance. It doesn&#039;t pass cursory examination, which doesn&#039;t mean it isn&#039;t worthy. Frankly, I think the TPG got it right, and I bet the grader didn&#039;t skimp on time, although for me with a 5x loupe that time would have been more like ten seconds than five. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Seriously; if I decide it&#039;s Mint State, all of the necessary extra time has just been used. Its&#039; technical merits are plain, and not elusive, and a technical grade is easy.</p><p><br /></p><p>With that said, there is a point at which strike rightly becomes a factor in grading, and I think 66 is the ceiling for that coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am <b>really</b> teetering on 68 for that second coin, despite the little ticks in ONE CENT. I sincerely hope there&#039;s nothing wrong with it I don&#039;t know about. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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