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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 405893, member: 2972&quot;]When grading a coin, it is important to take into account the average strength of strike.&nbsp; For instance, there are several years of SLQs that have no rivet detail on even the best struck specimens -- from what I understand the hubs lost detail.&nbsp; Some would call a vitually perfect example of this coin, albeit weakly struck, no better than a 65 because of this lack of detail.&nbsp; TPGs don&#039;t follow this credo, and the ANA guides do -- from what I understand.&nbsp; I tend to agree with the TPGs take on it as it seems rather arbitrary to limit a grade of a coin due to a lack of hub detail.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are many issues of large cents which suffer from the same problem, as well as most of the earlier type coins, not to mention the buff&#039;s as was pointed out above -- this is a classic problem in grading coins...Mike[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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