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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mike Thorne, post: 3739784, member: 56869&quot;]Several pages ago, I assigned a grade of MS62 BN to the OP&#039;s &#039;22-D. Thus, I wasn&#039;t surprised that it had received a grade of MS63 from PCGS. To all of you who assigned a grade based on the lines in the wheat stalks, without regard to how the coin looked otherwise, I&#039;ll tell you about an experience I had many years ago. While visiting a coin shop in Houston, the proprietor showed me a roll of BU 1926-D Buffalo nickels. Each coin had blazing mint luster, no hint of wear, and an amount of horn on the buffalo that would require a grade of VG8 if you were slavishly committed to grading based on the amount of horn. These coins were at least MS65, but they had a terrible strike, which was often a problem in the &#039;20s at branch mints. That&#039;s why you need to study and read the grading guides and look at thousands of coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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