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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;geekpryde, post: 4060605, member: 36248&quot;]To me that OP coin is not a 70.&nbsp; &nbsp; 69 is what I would say, for more than one reason.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>People went nuts with the money!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I also don&#039;t care for near-PL surfaces, or even PL surfaces, so the coins doesn&#039;t look exceptional to me in any way, so I would also not have given it a star.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; But I know that PL is one of the ways to earn a Star, and what I think doesn&#039;t matter in the slightest.</p><p><br /></p><p>My observation is this:&nbsp;&nbsp; NGC seems to hand it out the star designation as a consolation prize when both sides don&#039;t meet Proof-Like status on otherwise generic looking coins that have no other &quot;special&quot; attributes.&nbsp;&nbsp; They basically admit that <a href="https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/957/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/957/" rel="nofollow">here</a> by saying</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;For example, an untoned PF 65<img src="http://www.ngccoin.com/images/pc_star.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Cameo coin is not necessarily close to the PF 66 grade, but may be close to an Ultra Cameo designation.&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>So, for me, these sort of examples cheapen what the STAR implies, or should imply, specialness.&nbsp;&nbsp; I don&#039;t know how being <i>close</i>, but failing to meet, a DCAM or PL, makes something have &quot;exceptional eye appeal&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; So we fall back on this NGC quote,</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;characteristics that distinguish them from other coins of the same technical grade&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, if that is the case, all sort of coins should get the STAR, for all sorts of reasons.&nbsp; A coin just being weird seems to meet that criteria!&nbsp;&nbsp; Again, I know I am in the minority opinion when it comes to this.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess I will continue to think of STAR = Special, even though that is not really true.&nbsp; &nbsp; NGC seems to use it on examples like this to mean &quot;better than average&quot; and &quot;close, but no cigar.&quot;&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie33" alt=":cigar:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>For this particular coin, this quote should fail the coin alone:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;To receive a ★, coins must be free of any obvious planchet irregularities, and display no bothersome spots or blemishes.&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>I guess &quot;bothersome&quot; is debatable here.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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