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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 865002, member: 112&quot;]Oh I see luster on the coin, but I also see where there are plenty of areas that show either no luster or breaks in the luster. Now it could be your pictures just not picking up luster in some areas. But even pictures don&#039;t show breaks in the luster unless there really is a break in the luster.</p><p><br /></p><p>look at the feathers for instance in the headdress. The luster in the recessed areas is plain to see, but the higher points of the feathers have none or very little, epsecially in the bottom half. The top half shows the luster well. The highpoints of the cheek show little luster, but the hollows show it well. In the fields there is luster in between and around the stars, some of them anyway, but the high points of the stars show breaks in the luster. And the larger flat areas of the fields show little luster at all with the exception of between the L and the I and the head - a semi-protected area. The reverse is much the same, showing luster in the protected and semi-protected areas. Even spome of the tops of the letters in the legends appear to show breaks in the luster.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now anybody that looks at the pictures should see exactly what I see. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now there are plenty of hits around the date, a rather large one at 3 o&#039;clock, a few more on the cheek and in front of the face, and a couple more above the headdress. The reverse shows hits around the mottos, and in the fields above the eagle&#039;s back and head. </p><p><br /></p><p>All of this combined is consistent with an AU wear pattern. And yes, of course all of this is based on the pictures, but that&#039;s all I have to look at.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now you can either assume that the pictures are wrong and that what appears to be breaks in the luster are not really there and that the coin is MS. Or you can assume that they are there and that the TPG over-graded the coin. (And I feel that they do that on a regular basis with these coins.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I went with the latter.</p><p><br /></p><p>The grade on the slab is what it is. But the coin is what it is too - regardless of what the slab says.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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