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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2979029, member: 112&quot;]Just for the heck of it, let&#039;s just assume that some of those marks on the coin in question are planchet marks. You know what my answer is to that ? It doesn&#039;t matter what caused the marks, it doesn&#039;t matter if some of the marks, or all of them for that matter, were on the planchet. When it comes to grading the only thing that matters is that <u>the marks are there</u> !</p><p><br /></p><p>Based on any set of grading standards you want to use, whether it be those of PCGS or those of the ANA, to be worthy of an MS67 a coin only have a few, very few, light marks. There is no distinction made about what caused the marks or whether or not they existed before or after striking. As a matter of fact planchet quality is and always has been one the grading criteria. That means that if the planchet is defective in any way, and that includes having marks on it, then that counts against the grade, it detracts from the grade. </p><p><br /></p><p>There simply is no getting around it - that coin is grossly over-graded. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for the comments about maybe the luster or other qualities of the coin make up for the marks - that does not and cannot happen, based on any grading standards. That&#039;s like saying that a coin can have the very best luster possible, it can have the best strike possible, it can have the best eye appeal possible, it can have no hairlines whatsoever, it is perfectly centered, it had a great planchet, the coin is almost perfect - except somebody dropped something on it and it&#039;s got a big gouge dead center. But that doesn&#039;t count because it&#039;s perfect in all the other ways.</p><p><br /></p><p>In other words, good things do not make up for bad things. In order for a coin to be worthy of MS67 ALL of the grading criteria for an MS67 must be met. NOT all of them except one. One criteria not being met means the coin is not worthy of MS67.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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