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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2565018, member: 112&quot;]Well, I&#039;ll try one more time to clear it up for you. When I used the word enhance I was using it a synonym for increase. As I specifically said - </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And neither the *, nor the CAC sticker, increase the assigned numerical grade on the slab.</p><p><br /></p><p>A quote directly from NGC - </p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;NGC assigns its trademarked Star * Designation to coins with exceptional eye appeal for their assigned grade.&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>There are two important, but separate and distinct parts to that sentence - <u>coins with exceptional eye appeal</u>&nbsp; -&nbsp; and - <u>for their assigned grade</u>. </p><p><br /></p><p>Let me explain. That MS62* Morgan you posted, that coin was given the * designation because it has exceptional eye appeal <u>for a MS62 coin</u>. But had that coin been graded MS64 or MS65, it probably would not have been given the * designation because its eye appeal is not good enough for an MS64 or MS65 coin. For an MS64 or MS65 coin to get the * designation the eye appeal has to be considerably better than it does for an MS62 coin to get the * designation.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I&#039;m trying to get across to you is that eye appeal is a matter of degree type of thing. As NGC statement says - &quot;for their assigned grade&quot; - that means that as the grade increases the eye appeal must increase proportionally, equally, to the grade for the coin to qualify for the * designation.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the matter of grading criteria, there are 4 primary grading criteria (and several secondary criteria) used by the TPGs. They are -</p><p>1 - contact marks</p><p>2 - hairlines</p><p>3 - luster</p><p>4 eye appeal</p><p><br /></p><p>Any one of those 4 things, all by itself, can limit the grade of a coin - hold the grade down in other words. No matter how good the other 3 things are, if the 4th is bad enough to only meet the standard required for a 62 coin, then the coin cannot be graded higher than 62. Or, it may be the aggregate of all 4 things, or 3 things, or 2 things, that hold the grade down to 62. </p><p><br /></p><p>And that is why eye appeal, all by itself cannot increase the numerical grade of a coin. But, NGC, because they recognize that exceptional eye appeal for a given grade is a scarce thing, decided to use the special designation of the * to mark those coins. That is what ALL special designations do, they mark coins as being worthy of note. The star *, is no different in that regard than FBL, FH, CAM, DCAM, FB, FS, etc etc - <u>none of these special designations increase the numerical grade of a coin</u>. They merely mark that coin as being worthy of note.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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