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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 479380, member: 2972&quot;]Very interesting coin!&nbsp; Thanks for sharing...</p><p><br /></p><p>A few points.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>First off, I don&#039;t necessarily buy this was a new die or trial piece.&nbsp; While I must give Heritage the benefit of the doubt, having seen the coin in-hand, I&#039;m skeptical.&nbsp; In my experience, most early die strikes on Peace dollars <i>aren&#039;t</i> super-lustrous -- it takes time for the dies to get worked in before the booming luster coins come out.&nbsp; Furthermore, a coin as weakly struck as this one appears to be (if that&#039;s what it is) shouldn&#039;t be lustrous because they never hit the die itself to cause the luster.&nbsp; My sense is the coin in question is a very late die state and as a result the die has lost much of the detail but the coin is fully struck (and why the luster is unbroken in the areas that lack detail).&nbsp; All that said, if the planchet were a special one (as Heritage suggests) and already lustrous, then perhaps the story makes a bit more sense....&nbsp; I&#039;d love to see the coin in hand though!!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>I think many people forget that in the top-pop grades, <b>NGC ranks coins it doesn&#039;t grade them.</b>&nbsp; What NGC is saying, essentially, is if you lay this coin next to all the other 66&#039;s, it clearly stands out as better.&nbsp; IMO, it is very important to realize that this is how NGC grades.</p><p><br /></p><p>To answer the original question, no, I don&#039;t think that a single characteristic can be ignored -- they all should be factored into grading.&nbsp; However, to explain the coin in question, I will suggest that other characteristics can be so great (luster) that weakeness (strike) can sometimes be overlooked.</p><p><br /></p><p>All IMHO &amp; respectfully submitted...MIke[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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