How is a coin's final grade made when one side is a higher grade then the other? is it an average? or by the lesser grade? What if there is a big difference in the grades? one side say 40 and the other 60? would it be a 50 then?
seeker: I have generally seen where the label is, say MS-63, and there is a beautiful reverse and a nice obverse, that they go with the lowest side, esp when the lower side is the obverse.
The coin is graded by the lowest side---most of the time there isn't that large of jump from side to side but I would say that if one side was MS63 and the other MS65 the coin may be graded MS64. Speedy
Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't you just said that it's up to what each 'grader' thinks it is, as to what it ends up being. It seems that you have just described it in at least two different ways , so I assume that it is the person who is doing the grading that makes the final decision as to go up, down or right in the middle. Is this right?
Pretty much When a coin is sent in to be graded it is looked at by about 5 graders---they mark down their grade and then the last grader looks at it and puts his grade and final grade---that may not be his grade or it might be-- Grading is an Art---and everyone has to learn it---with the topic being about a coin that would grade higher on one side than the other side---I would always grade it by the lower side---but as you say--that is up to the person doing the grading---most of the graders at TPG's I think go by the rule that the lowest side wins. Speedy
