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<p>[QUOTE="rlm's cents, post: 1622301, member: 7957"]Strike - very solid. Full hair, no planchet marks on the shoulder, full wheats and wheat lines. Even the O is full.</p><p>Marks/nicks - absent. I am sure I could get out a microscope and find some for you, but that is not how you grade a coin. And those are not carbon spots.</p><p>Luster - good, but not the best. </p><p>Eye appeal - Beauty is in the eye of the beholder? I am not sure how they evaluated it here, but the low graded coins I have seen have a major problem or more. Yes, the color is not uniform, but nothing there is really due to a problem (I mean real problems).</p><p>In summary, with good color, this is easily a 65 (or 66?). NGC balanced all to a 64. I would have to agree even adding a nice 64.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, Thad, you may have seen similar coins, but I don't think this specific coin before. I bought 12 of these all with the deep orange color and blue splotches. More than one have been posted here more than once.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]230595.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rlm's cents, post: 1622301, member: 7957"]Strike - very solid. Full hair, no planchet marks on the shoulder, full wheats and wheat lines. Even the O is full. Marks/nicks - absent. I am sure I could get out a microscope and find some for you, but that is not how you grade a coin. And those are not carbon spots. Luster - good, but not the best. Eye appeal - Beauty is in the eye of the beholder? I am not sure how they evaluated it here, but the low graded coins I have seen have a major problem or more. Yes, the color is not uniform, but nothing there is really due to a problem (I mean real problems). In summary, with good color, this is easily a 65 (or 66?). NGC balanced all to a 64. I would have to agree even adding a nice 64. BTW, Thad, you may have seen similar coins, but I don't think this specific coin before. I bought 12 of these all with the deep orange color and blue splotches. More than one have been posted here more than once. [ATTACH]230595.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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