I just knocked dealer out of his seat!

:dead-horse:I give up. You who don't trust TPGs are entitled to your opinions. I feel otherwise, but don't wish to keep beating the proverbial dead horse. Every other thread here is on the evils of TPGs--that is really counterproductive.

This is why the TPGs exist, and why their evaluations are not just "opinions." They're expert evaluations based on fact, rubrics, and expertise. I won't debate this any more, as nobody will be convinced who feels oppositely.

 

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This is a general rule that I was one time taught. The obverse is the money side of the coin. One should grade coins based upon the obverse & then inspect the reverse to see how it affects the grade. The reverse probably won’t raise the coin’s grade but it can certainly lower the overall grade. That said, we have seen some coins mounted in TPG holders with the reverse facing forward (such as a coin with an important DDR). When this is done, it can apparently make the reverse the money side of the coin. :devil:

 

If we were to sort a mint bag of Morgan dollars into 10 piles for MS60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, & 70, then the largest pile might be the pile of MS63s. If you then took that pile of MS63 dollars & sorted them into 10 piles, you could theoretically (and practically) come up with your decimal grades.

When folks are playing guess the grade with a slabbed coin in hand, they often guess a grade like 64.5. This way, if the slabbed grade is 64 they claim they were correct & if the slabbed grade is 65 they can also claim they were correct.