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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RabidRick, post: 2015038, member: 37868&quot;]Morgans are bigger and hence have more bagmarks. Thats not a planchet flaw; that&#039;s a scratch. I can see from the picture how the metal is displaced. The scratch is that big that I can actualy tell.</p><p><br /></p><p>But yeah, I agree sometimes it&#039;s tough without a loupe (or I have a microscope I use to get a much better look).</p><p><br /></p><p>The Ike seems to hve a scratch between the I and the B but that&#039;s not necessariy disqualifying. You need to keep in mind how much bigger a dollar like that is from a V-nickel.</p><p><br /></p><p>The same scratch on one would disqualify it while the other might not. That&#039;s the way it&#039;s always been. Planchet flaws can disqualify coins in some cases too, I believe, just not die errors (for example die lines vs. cleaning -- you can ony tell by looking very close if they are raised or dispaced metal)</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m guessing the same thing caused the two scratches (but that&#039;s just a guess).</p><p><br /></p><p>So yes -- you&#039;ll see that in Morgans with plenty of bagmarks grade a 63 but this is practially unheard of. That&#039;s also not a bagmark; something greater did that to the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then again -- I believe in &quot;buy the coin not the holder.&quot; I can geenrally grade pretty accurately by looking at pictures but if someone is selling a very high-priced coin RAW (*cough* GS) coin it makes you wonder why they didnt get it sent in to get a premium.</p><p><br /></p><p>Likely because it&#039;s a problem coin, and they know it.</p><p><br /></p><p>They can also do photography tricks to hide the problems.</p><p><br /></p><p>If they have a return policy though, I&#039;ll sometimes go for it and then examine it in-hand. I have not had much luck with that. Most of the time it was BS (but I paid something like 4 or 5 bucks for return shipping on a ~ thousand dollar coin. Big deal.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~ Ricky[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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