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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 7851865, member: 24314&quot;]Collecting Nut, post: 7851700, member: 74863&quot;]Obviously PCGS and CAC disagree on the grade and 6 points is a big difference.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie104" alt=":yawn:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I thought most of you knew this...</p><p><br /></p><p>The difference between a coin with just a little friction that removes the original surface on a high point and a &quot;gem 65&quot; is <b><span style="color: rgb(179, 0, 0)">NOT</span></b> 6-7 points!&nbsp; It is a &quot;blink&quot; in the eye of the examiner.&nbsp; It is influenced by experience, magnification, lighting, and market conditions.&nbsp; Today&#039;s MS grading is fluid.&nbsp; So much so that the coin in question will be graded AU sometimes and MS other times if sent to the same service.&nbsp; JA does not want to bean an AU in a 64 slab.&nbsp; GOOD!</p><p><br /></p><p>IMHO, this sort of predicament would happen only rarely if there actually was the old standard of NO TRACE OF WEAR.&nbsp; If that were the case, standards would remain fixed and ONLY the prices would rise.&nbsp; In that case, the coin in question could be graded AU-58, it would have received a bean AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN PRICED AS TODAY&#039;S MS-64. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This lesson should remind all of you to buy the coin and not the label BECAUSE examples of over/under/spot on grading exist for all the TPGS.&nbsp; That&#039;s because graders are human <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie25" alt=":blackeye:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie30" alt=":bucktooth:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />, &quot;fudging-a-grade&quot; happens <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />, and &quot;standards&quot; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> &quot;float.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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