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Message:: [QUOTE="Leadfoot, post: 1432736, member: 2972"]What "plain language" are you referring to?  That is NOT what the PCGS grading guide says... Page 22 of PCGS grading guide 2nd edition, verbatim: "Finally, what does that split-grade coin really grade?  In nearly all cases, the obverse determines the majority -- or, in many cases, all -- of the total grade." Nowhere, as far as I know, does it say that they grade a coin by the worst side -- either in description nor practice. As an aside, it is much more typical for a coin's obverse to be lower than the reverse -- due to the design of most US coinage.  Thus most of the coins are graded by their lower grade, but that's because the obverse tends to be a lower grade, and not because the TPGs grade to the lower graded side.  None of that, however, change PCGS's words above, which are very clear and quite contrary to what you suggest.[/QUOTE]