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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 624464, member: 112&quot;]Yes, we shall have to agree to disagree. You are accounting for the lack of detail in the hair due to a weak strike and I am saying it is due to wear. As for the drapery, while some of the examples you list show more wear on the lower graded coins, I would not say all of them do. And if you check the other examples listed for each of yours (the other auction links for coins of the same grade) you&#039;ll see what I mean.</p><p><br /></p><p>But let me ask you Mike, you said that you estimated the grade assigned by the TPG as VF20. OK, fine. But can you tell me why ? The reason I ask is that here in this thread you saying that the coin has little wear and that the lack of detail is due to a weak strike. </p><p><br /></p><p>But yet in plenty of other threads, including this one, you have said that the TPG&#039;s do not discount or grade coins low because of a weak strike. That they only grade low for significant wear. </p><p><br /></p><p>So if the lack of detail is due to a weak strike and not wear, why did they, and you, grade this coin as VF20 ?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You misunderstand me. I am saying that there is uneven wear on the OP&#039;s coin for an entirely different reason. Take a look at the lower half of the leaves on the right side of the reverse. They are fully struck and show no signs of wear at all that I can see. But yet other portions of the coin show significant wear. To me that proves that this coin has uneven wear. In other words it is the lack of wear at all in this area that shows the uneven wear. And frankly, I have never met anyone who knows coins that will say that uneven wear does not occur. And it does not occur just on bent coins either. It just happens for whatever reason.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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