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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 586466, member: 15309&quot;]That photo does not give me a reason to doubt the grade assigned by PCGS of MS65.&nbsp; However, that coin has zero eye appeal IMO.&nbsp; This is not an extremely rare coin as the seller would like you to believe.&nbsp; The fact is that mintages of commemoratives can&#039;t be taken at face value and certainly can&#039;t be compared to mintages of regular issue coins to determine rarity.&nbsp; These coins were minted for collectors and many of them remain in mint state today.&nbsp; The population of a Grant (no star) in MS65 is 1357/465.&nbsp; The eye appeal of this issue can vary greatly from butt ugly to phenomenally beautiful.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think you should wait until a nice one turns up on the market like this one:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/ACPitBoss/Commemoratives/Picture1644.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/ACPitBoss/Commemoratives/Picture1645.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>My advice is don&#039;t jump right in and buy the first one you see.&nbsp; You will have about 3-5 of these to choose from in every Heritage signature auction.&nbsp; Be patient and wait for one that floats your boat.&nbsp; I have checked the current Heritage auction and the two MS65&#039;s available are not much better in terms of eye appeal than the E-Bay one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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