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<p>[QUOTE="bahabully, post: 1072766, member: 17555"]your right leadfoot,, you can't learn to grade by reading a book anymore than you can learn to teardown and rebuild an engine by reading a book... the doing of it is what teaches everyone. I'm just pointing out that the book and the actual are very poorly aligned.... you watch this baby come in MS63, or if it doesn't then i can post or point to 5 others that look like it that are graded by one of the big 3 in ms63,,, and don't even get me started on the 22d's !! in any case, my gripe is the application of grading rules to some dates and then the way the tpg's provide a completely different grading delimiters to other dates within a series if a specific date has strike issues, or luster issues, etc.... these date specific issues should not warrent a different standard. </p><p> </p><p>If it were up to me there wouldn't be a single 22d weak reverse in MS anywhere,, yes, even it just came off the press. imo, the strike would hold it down per the ana grading standards and we'd all be looking for red vf35 and ef40 22d weak strikes to complete our BU set of cents.... and they would be priced accordingly.....</p><p> </p><p>breaking the standard just opens the door,, and the door be a swinging freely folks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bahabully, post: 1072766, member: 17555"]your right leadfoot,, you can't learn to grade by reading a book anymore than you can learn to teardown and rebuild an engine by reading a book... the doing of it is what teaches everyone. I'm just pointing out that the book and the actual are very poorly aligned.... you watch this baby come in MS63, or if it doesn't then i can post or point to 5 others that look like it that are graded by one of the big 3 in ms63,,, and don't even get me started on the 22d's !! in any case, my gripe is the application of grading rules to some dates and then the way the tpg's provide a completely different grading delimiters to other dates within a series if a specific date has strike issues, or luster issues, etc.... these date specific issues should not warrent a different standard. If it were up to me there wouldn't be a single 22d weak reverse in MS anywhere,, yes, even it just came off the press. imo, the strike would hold it down per the ana grading standards and we'd all be looking for red vf35 and ef40 22d weak strikes to complete our BU set of cents.... and they would be priced accordingly..... breaking the standard just opens the door,, and the door be a swinging freely folks.[/QUOTE]
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