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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;princeofwaldo, post: 1349186, member: 24091&quot;]There used to be a short-hand used in advertising that only had 4 grades of BU.&nbsp; It was later described by the publisher of Numismatic News on page 3 in tiny type of each issue as something like this, --and this is from memory so I might have it wrong-- but as I remember it, it went something like this:</p><p><br /></p><p>SELECT UNCIRCULATED = MS60/61</p><p>CHOICE UNCIRCULATED = MS62/63</p><p>GEM UNCIRCULATED = MS64/65</p><p>SUPERB UNCIRCULATED = MS66 and above.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course 4 grades of uncirculated, as handy as it might have been, could never stand a chance against a system with essentially 33 grades of mint state including + marks, stars, and two grades (60, 70) ending with a 0.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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