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Message:: [QUOTE="rlm's cents, post: 948951, member: 7957"]Using NGC as the standard, you actually did worse on this coin than the 1922-.  I am 99% sure NGC got this wrong, but I am not sure just what is right.  I bought this as a MS63 red by PCI.  Well, it is not red.  Never even noticed the scratch on it and sent it to PCGS.  You have to be at the right angle and still most of the time it looks like someone ran their fingernail across it.  i.e. not a true shiny scratch, but a line where you can tell something ran across the coin.  PCGS came back and said it was authentic - scratched (this was before they slabbed them).  You will be seeing another PCGS slab with a worse (IMO) scratch that they graded and did not even appear to have deducted for it.  After playing with it for this post, I am almost sure that it is not scratched.  Rather, that is a die scratch.  When I manage to catch the light just perfectly, it appears raised.  Also, it ends where a scratch cannot end - right at the nose.  It does not go up the nose at all.  Personally, I think it deserves a grade and better than 61.  Sorry, but these are the best I can do with my camera. FWIW, this is the second worst item and definitely the worst set I have posted yet. BTW, Doug, at least 9 graders have looked at this coin and none have said anything about the back being worked on.[/QUOTE]