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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eddiespin, post: 7188718, member: 4920&quot;]Really, unless we&#039;re blind, they need to go back and re-read their Red Book...</p><p><br /></p><p>Take ANY series of the coins in the Red Book. What do you see, right at the top, right before any of the lines on the dates, grades, and values? You see a cursory grading guide specific to that particular series of coin. I defy ANY of you to show me just ONE line in ANY of those cursory guides relating to the CIRCULATED grades wherein it even suggests things like strike, marks, rub, luster, or so on, imagine what you will, figure into those CIRCULATED grades--you&#039;ll not find a single ONE. Instead, every single line, without exception, is going to look to ONE criteria for differentiating those circulated grades, and that criteria is <i>WEAR</i>. That&#039;s it. There&#039;s nothing else. It&#039;s as uncomplicated as that...</p><p><br /></p><p>Ergo, if they knew what they were doing, they see AU50 wear on this coin; likewise, if they don&#039;t have the first clue how to grade CIRCULATED coins, they indeed graded it down for things like strike, marks, rub, luster, or so on, imagine what you will. And that&#039;s that, and that&#039;s all there is to it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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