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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 69116, member: 112&quot;]There is something that many forget when grading coins - it is relative. Most experienced collectors realize that you have to grade coins from different years and different mints individually. In other words, an 1879-S Morgan is not graded based on the same criteria that an 1879-O is graded on. Each of those two coins is graded very differently. </p><p><br /></p><p>But what is not always considered is that you also have to grade each denomination differently as well. For example - silver dollars are large and heavy. And when they were ejected from the press and fell into the hopper the coins would naturally bang together. This leaves marks, sometimes large marks because of the weight &amp; size of the coins. But if you think about the same thing happening with dimes - there are much fewer marks because the coins are very light and small in size. </p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom line is that when grading, you make more allowances for the large heavy coins than you do the small light ones.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way - keep looking - there are MS69 Morgans out there too&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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