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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lkeigwin, post: 1594662, member: 30400&quot;]Sure, it will grade cleanly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Take a look at this 1843 Petite head large letters. It was cleanly graded by NGC as an AU58. I bought it at a Heritage auction. The rim damage was hidden behind the NGC prong. I discovered this after cracking it for my album.</p><p><br /></p><p>I spoke to NGC about this, providing before-and-after pictures. The best they would do for me is reholder it in another AU58 slab so I could resell it. I passed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course the large images make it look much worse than it appears in hand. But nonetheless, the TPG&#039;s will cleanly grade many coins with a certain amount of rim damage. How much is a good question (though we know they&#039;ll give older coins a lot more slack).</p><p>Lance.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg37/lkeigwin/Large%20Cents/3fe03cd2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg37/lkeigwin/Large%20Cents/e8561e3d.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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