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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1606667, member: 42773&quot;]I&#039;m sorry about the pic, but it&#039;s the best I can do for now. Perhaps it will suffice. (Click on the pic for a large file.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll start with the reverse. Here&#039;s what I see. Circled in red are the obvious hits, yellow arrows are the hairlines. (Or are they scratches?)</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is weakly struck in a few places, circled in purple. The lettering is also weakly struck, particularly at LLAR.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, the strike itself is consistent with some PCGS slabs that I have at MS64, but I know the 71 P issue has notoriously weak strikes, and I&#039;ve seen exactly this strike pattern on coins graded MS65 (not in hand, but in pics.) Plus, the detail on the shield and eagle&#039;s head is better on this coin than some I&#039;ve seen graded 65.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I&#039;m going to start with 65 on the strike and subtract a grade for the hits on the shield, which are in a focal area, taking us down to 64.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now at MS64, the grading standards say... &quot;Few marks/hairlines or a couple of severe ones, strike should be average or above.&quot; I count six hairlines, three of which I would say are severe, so I&#039;ve got to knock it down to 63.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin has average eye appeal for the series, so there&#039;s nothing there to mitigate the damage.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I&#039;m saying MS63. I&#039;ll post the obverse after I get a chance to look it over. How am I doing?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://postimage.org/image/ud8ct68wx/full/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/image/ud8ct68wx/full/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s8.postimage.org/y9lop5twl/reverse.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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