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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CamaroDMD, post: 930434, member: 5233&quot;]Great post T$, lots of good information.&nbsp; I think it&#039;s also useful to see not only how the coins are graded...but to look at some of the inconsistency in the grading companies.&nbsp; When you compare the ANA standards to the images shown, you can see that PCGS is more lenient.&nbsp; Here is example right from your own post.&nbsp; Look at your 1893-S G4 Morgan.&nbsp; This coin doesn&#039;t have full rims on the obverse or the reverse.&nbsp; According to the ANA, full rims are required to make G4.&nbsp; Often times, TPGs let full rims slide on the reverse a little if the obverse is full, but in this case they allowed both to slide.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; It&#039;s a key date.&nbsp; According to the ANA, that coins is a AG3.</p><p><br /></p><p>Morgan&#039;s are quite challenging to accurately grade in the MS grades because there is such a wide variety of strike quality throughout the series.&nbsp; It is important to understand the characteristics of each date/MM to truly grade the coin accurately.&nbsp; For example, a 1880-S and 1892-O will look vastly different at MS65.</p><p><br /></p><p>What you have here is an excellent general grading guide which this site has been lacking.&nbsp; I think you did a very nice job with it.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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