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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1314789, member: 112&quot;]Not much would surprise me anymore Mike, not when it comes to how the TPGs grade anymore. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll readily agree, and always have, that luster is the single most important grading criteria. But a coin can have the best luster in the world, and if it&#039;s got 3 hits the size of those in a prime focal area, plus more besides in other areas, on a coin the size of a cent - it&#039;s got no damn business being graded above 64.</p><p><br /></p><p>And according to you, grade and value are the same thing. Or as I believe you put it, coins are not graded, they are priced.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well buddy, that one&#039;s priced wrong if it says anything over 64 on the slab <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>edit - and just to remind folks here, never once in all of rlm&#039;s threads like this have I ever guessed what the TPG said the coin was. My grades are always what <u>I think</u> the grade ought to be.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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