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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 7564631, member: 105571&quot;]I am pleased to be a genius goat.&nbsp; I am getting more of these GTGs correct or close than I was a year ago.&nbsp; Thanks for posting.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin looks better in the reveal photo - eye appeal is all in the eye of the beholder - probably the most subjective of the grading criteria.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been collecting for three years now and when I look back at the first slabbed coins I bought it often induces a cringe.&nbsp; For example, this is one of my first slabbed coins. I would not buy it today for all the reasons that are readily apparent now but which I didn&#039;t know about then:</p><p><br /></p><p>-&nbsp; Graded MS-60 when it is really an AU-55 or 58.</p><p>-&nbsp; Weak strike issues.</p><p>-&nbsp; Hair-lined from an old cleaning and lucky to not be detailed.</p><p>-&nbsp; Unnatural blast white from a cleaning.&nbsp; This is one of those eye appeal things.&nbsp; I preferred blast white then but now I prefer either light toning or even some crusty.&nbsp; Fortunately, this coin retains decent luster - it&#039;s only saving grace along with an R-4 die marriage - something else I knew nothing about back then.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1304309[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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