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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ClairHardesty, post: 1304298, member: 34169&quot;]It is also important to note that &quot;with the naked eye&quot; also implies &quot;at a normal viewing distance&quot; and not &quot;when held as close to the eye as possible&quot;. The other thing that the standards only elude to is the weighting of imperfections as to where on a given type of coin they appear. Generally more (negative) weight is given to imperfections that stand out to the naked eye like flat fields or large devices. The seemingly short amount of time spent grading is actually an important part of the process. Given an inordinate amount of time, we see more and more defects and this is not the intent of coin grading, to weed out every last possibly detectable imperfection. Modern, direct from the mint special purpose coins would possibly benefit from their own grading system, one that essentially spread out the grades from 67 through 70 into three or four times as many levels. That might help soften this ten to one value difference between 69s and 70s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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