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Message:: [QUOTE="stevereecy, post: 853708, member: 19884"]That was a lot of fun.  Please post another one.  Seriously, please. That one was definitely tricky because there were aspects of that coin that were super nice...those fields were to die for, but the "hairy" look of the reverse was in the other direction.  I'd like to see another one where the coin's conditions were more uniform. And now, a statement from a sore loser: <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Gotta say one other thing...I have been acquiring cheap slabs of Jeffersons to help me hone in on my own grading skills and it really does help you get within...say...half a grade.  But all my slabs are PCGS.  Perhaps this may have been the difference between the two grading services. But that being said, you and I both know that there are hardly any MS68 nickels from that era in existence.  I've seen nickels that are almost "perfect", and they (only) got a MS67...perhaps because of market grade issues...the grading services seem to have painted themselves in the corner with respect to assigning higher grades to nickels.  I think that while PCGS standards are tighter on Jefferson nickels, both services are a little too tight and the curve seems to be skewed around MS65.  It takes a really ugly nickel to go much lower than MS63, and it would take a ridiculously perfect one to go above MS67...the bell curve is too short (in the X direction).  I think that perhaps NGC's bell curve might be more realistic just because the bell curve itself is longer.  So maybe in the end, NGC's grade assigned is the right one and I need to adjust my thinking based on whose slab it is.  So from now on, if the coin gets up in the MS66 or higher territory, maybe I should mentally add a 1/2 point...I don't know.   Fun and educational test...thanks. Steve[/QUOTE]

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