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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 2087615, member: 73489&quot;]I think this is one of the reasons there are so many &#039;sliders&#039; between the lower-end MS and high-end AU.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree there are some coins that in AU-58 look better than MS-60 or MS-61....but to say that &quot;<i>AU-58 is going to blow away MS-60-62 almost every time</i>&quot; is very confusing to non-experts, I think.</p><p><br /></p><p>I understand what you are saying and I see the basis for that statement and yet it seems counterintuitive.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Got it...at what level does that advantage disappear in your opinon, at the MS-63 level ?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In theory...if taken to its logical conclusion...then we should be seeing good-looking CIRCULATEDS as MS-61&#039;s and uncirculated scruffy-looking coins as AU-58&#039;s ?</p><p><br /></p><p>But the inability to consider a CIRCULATED coin as Mint State and the unlikelihood of an UNCIRCULATED coin of falling through the floor of being Mint State (no matter how nicked up) prevents it from falling into the About Uncirculated category.&nbsp; Right ?</p><p><br /></p><p>I think I got it.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I think........LOL&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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