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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 4556577, member: 24314&quot;]First of all, your personal grading standards and your personal preferences about the coins you would buy or what you like are VERY IMPORTANT <span style="color: #b30000">to you</span>.&nbsp; In the case of this - no argument XF/AU coin, you and the professional graders at PCGS can call it a high VF.&nbsp; While your opinion is very important <span style="color: #b30000">to you</span>, IMO, it is very unfortunate that a major TPGS feels the same way.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As I posted, there might be something we cannot see OR they agree with you that the coin is only worth VF money.&nbsp; That&#039;s what is unfortunate.&nbsp; Commercial graders and net graders routinely take an excellent example of a coin for a particular grade and lower its grade to some level that makes them not only look stupid but also confuses those who rely on their opinion.&nbsp; Until a coin&#039;s value/desirability/rarity/ownership is separated from its actual condition of preservation, crap as this will continue to exist.&nbsp; This coin is under graded as a VF.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Experience.&nbsp; LOL.&nbsp; Look, in my experience most collectors cannot tell the different degrees of mechanical cleaning.&nbsp; This is mostly due to the fact that since 1986, the major TPGS don&#039;t make an attempt to educate collectors.&nbsp; They call anything from brushed to polished simply &quot;cleaned.&quot;&nbsp; Additionally, most collectors call any coin with hairlines &quot;harshly cleaned.&quot;&nbsp; It is hard to educate collectors about the differences without hands on training. </p><p><br /></p><p>PS&nbsp; You&#039;ve given me an idea for my grading column.&nbsp; Thanks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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