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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 1437089, member: 2972&quot;]We can all be wrong, no worries.&nbsp; Thank you for admitting the possibility.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In point of fact, this very issue (the &quot;rough&quot; nature of Ikes) confused me for many years until I had a chance to talk to James Sego on the topic.&nbsp; He explained to me what he has learned through submitting many thousands of Ikes to PCGS, and after that conversation a light-bulb went off over my head and suddenly things made sense.&nbsp; Basically, he said, unless there are hard marks from contact with other coins, the TPGs tend to grade the coins more on luster than anything else and they generally ignore the planchet chatter unless it is very distracting or the coin is ultra-high-grade (i.e. top-pop).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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