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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1067712, member: 26302&quot;]Ok, I don&#039;t know enough about modern world coins. In ancients, I have coins that have never seen a day circulation I would grade VF+/Xf, and a few just VF. The equivalent of MS for us, FDC, is only applicable to 1% of ancients ever minted the day they left the mint, and few of those survived the ages well. We would never dream of upping the grade of a Londinium mint coin with the same details of a Antioch coin just because Londinium was a poor quality mint. We know which mints were poor, and that makes finding a good one from there special, but not a higher grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>I could understand changing standards on series of coins, but are you saying a 1644 dated coin is graded higher with the same details than a 1643 of the same series, because they were just having a bad year in 1644? Sounds like a copout to me. Collecters want details on their coins. If they aren&#039;t there, they aren&#039;t there. Maybe the die was worn, I don&#039;t care, it should be downgraded, not apologized for and given &quot;mercy grades&quot;. Sounds a lot like modern education, not wanting to hurt anyone&#039;s feelings, to me. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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