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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mark_h, post: 1767612, member: 3726&quot;]I pretty much assume the TPG graders have more knowledge than I do - at the same time I don&#039;t think it makes them perfect. I also use the heritage archives when trying to grade something like these coins.&nbsp; What I did not do was blow them up enough, but then again it may have made me go to low on the grades.&nbsp;&nbsp; So I have no problem with the grades assigned.&nbsp; Now if people want to call them AU that is fine with me also - I am not going to argue over pictures in this case.&nbsp; My opinion is the pictures show enough to qualify as MS. I just know most of the gold I have seen in the 60-63 range look a lot like these - in hand not to my tastes. So far the ones I have bought (6) are all in the AU range.&nbsp; Gold is tough to grade.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>What was really cool was one day the shop had the same date, type, etc in AU-55 and MS-62 grade.&nbsp; The two coins looked identical based off the strike - the difference being the luster and bag marks on the 62.&nbsp; The 55 looked much nicer to me, just no where near the luster of the 62.&nbsp; To me the bag marks made the 62 one ugly coin, with each bag mark looking like a break in luster.&nbsp; This is one of the things I really like about my local coin shop - they will let me look at study everything, even though they know I will not buy most of what I look at.&nbsp;&nbsp; Probably the only way I will ever get to look real close at proof 1840 seated dollar - I read somewhere 10-20 of them minted(with the total of 40 at PCGS and NGC being re-submissions).&nbsp; That reminds me - they covered the grade on a fugio cent and ask me to grade it.&nbsp; The strike was so weak - I said XF, maybe AU-50.&nbsp; Turns out it was a MS62 coin - then we discussed it for about 10 minutes on why he thought it was graded correctly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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