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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 437023, member: 15309&quot;]I respect your opinion, but I am going to have to vehemently disagree.&nbsp; Nobody could possibly look at this coin and think it is a cleaned XF coin.&nbsp; On the contrary, I imagine that if you saw this coin in person, at first glance, most everyone&#039;s reaction would be OMG.&nbsp; I believe that this coin&#039;s first impression is so powerful with respect to luster, surface, and eye appeal that you don&#039;t even notice the extremely weak strike until you really look at it.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the crux of the debate.&nbsp; If the coin actually can represent the appearance of an MS67 coin because it basically has qualities of an MS68 possibly even and MS69, but it has the strike of an MS63, where do you market grade this piece.&nbsp; Do you limit this extraordinary coin all the way down.&nbsp; NGC felt that this coin merited the MS67 grade for whatever reason.&nbsp; I actually like the coin at this grade because I don&#039;t think strike is as nearly as important as the other grading factors.&nbsp; But that is my opinion and does represent the opinion of most coin collectors that feel that strike is of the utmost importance.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin does present quite the dilemna.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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