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<p>[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 23945489, member: 13650"]I’ll post this example to show how subjective it all is. I know this isn’t helpful to the original question but may be thought provoking.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1547201[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1547200[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p> I got this one for my US Type. This coin exhibits fine scratch marks as if it had been cleaned. Maybe there’s die polish lines. Maybe there’s some just from circulating. This coin has no luster remaining. It has the dull flashy look to it but the details are great so I really liked it as a nice example for the type for this one.</p><p> If I had sent this in, I would expect to get a details grade on it. But this one straight graded. AU-53. Had to pay above price guides to get it. Had it been AU details, maybe wouldve expected 20-30% discount off of what I paid. It’s the same coin.</p><p> It looks like it could be an AU-58 but this is likely an example of a net graded coin that they straight graded and just dropped the grade one or two points due to being dipped. Did they do this because it’s a scarcer type? Should it have gotten a straight grade? What’s this coin worth raw? What’s it worth in a details slab? I mean this coin has three different price points depending on its storage device. That’s just the market for you.</p><p><br /></p><p> Looking at other MS options for this it seems a lot of them have fine scratches so maybe it is die polish lines. I don’t know. This is one where it had a little over 2 million minted but finding them in attractive higher grades is tough. NGC has only graded 213 higher and some of those have their own problems. There aren’t really thousands to pick from. You’re more so in the hundreds and most of those aren’t for sale.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 23945489, member: 13650"]I’ll post this example to show how subjective it all is. I know this isn’t helpful to the original question but may be thought provoking. [ATTACH=full]1547201[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1547200[/ATTACH] I got this one for my US Type. This coin exhibits fine scratch marks as if it had been cleaned. Maybe there’s die polish lines. Maybe there’s some just from circulating. This coin has no luster remaining. It has the dull flashy look to it but the details are great so I really liked it as a nice example for the type for this one. If I had sent this in, I would expect to get a details grade on it. But this one straight graded. AU-53. Had to pay above price guides to get it. Had it been AU details, maybe wouldve expected 20-30% discount off of what I paid. It’s the same coin. It looks like it could be an AU-58 but this is likely an example of a net graded coin that they straight graded and just dropped the grade one or two points due to being dipped. Did they do this because it’s a scarcer type? Should it have gotten a straight grade? What’s this coin worth raw? What’s it worth in a details slab? I mean this coin has three different price points depending on its storage device. That’s just the market for you. Looking at other MS options for this it seems a lot of them have fine scratches so maybe it is die polish lines. I don’t know. This is one where it had a little over 2 million minted but finding them in attractive higher grades is tough. NGC has only graded 213 higher and some of those have their own problems. There aren’t really thousands to pick from. You’re more so in the hundreds and most of those aren’t for sale.[/QUOTE]
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