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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 3211296, member: 15309&quot;]Says the guy who just two pages ago accused them of undergrading his coin!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It seems to me that you have a keen eye for coins, but you dabble in an area of coins that I don&#039;t.&nbsp; My experience is mostly with late 19th century and 20th century mint state coins.&nbsp; You deal mostly with early American coinage that is in the circulate range.&nbsp; In that regard, I can&#039;t really attest to their consistency related to circulated coinage.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I find grading early circulated coinage much more difficult.&nbsp; Authentication is the first step that can be excluded with most 20th century mint state coins.&nbsp; Cleanings and other problems are much more difficult to recognize, and wear patterns often deviate from the standards based on the original strike quality of the coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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