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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ndgoflo, post: 31716, member: 367&quot;]Maybe I was wrong to say &quot;today&quot;. I really have nothing to compare to as I have been in the game less than 10 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>But to me, your example is a no brainer. Coin A will more than likely deserve a higher grade than B, UNLESS B has better surface preservation (contact marks), luster, and/or eye appeal to offset the weaker strike.</p><p><br /></p><p>With the way you are describing it, no common collector will ever be able to grade, for they would have to acquire thousands of examples of every date and mint mark of any said series just to figure out &quot;was this a good year for the mint?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I can see adjusting grading standards from series to series, but within the same series all coins should be grade the same exact way regardless.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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