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<p>[QUOTE="LostDutchman, post: 797261, member: 16994"]The peace dollars were a tough coin for me to learn to grade. It took more then 2 years of doing a coin show every other weekend and looking at a lot of graded coins for me to feel that I had a good enough grasp on peace dollars to start buying them raw and sending them in. Even then I still had more to learn from the results of my first few submissions. </p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortuneately it's a pretty common practice for some dealers to sell really nice sliders as UNC's. Some of them know better and some of them just over grade. Even less scrupulous dealers will look for nice already graded AU58's and crack them out and sell them as UNC's. It happens all of the time sadly.</p><p><br /></p><p>My advice when you get them back is to really really look at each individual coin under a nice bright light. Unfortuneately having them graded by ANACS may not teach you as much as one of the top 2 companies... but pour over these coins and learn. Absorb what they are calling an AU58 and see if you can't find similarities in the different 58 coins... It may not jump off at you right away... but see if you can't see the slightest rub or luster break that caused them to call the coin an 58.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="LostDutchman, post: 797261, member: 16994"]The peace dollars were a tough coin for me to learn to grade. It took more then 2 years of doing a coin show every other weekend and looking at a lot of graded coins for me to feel that I had a good enough grasp on peace dollars to start buying them raw and sending them in. Even then I still had more to learn from the results of my first few submissions. Unfortuneately it's a pretty common practice for some dealers to sell really nice sliders as UNC's. Some of them know better and some of them just over grade. Even less scrupulous dealers will look for nice already graded AU58's and crack them out and sell them as UNC's. It happens all of the time sadly. My advice when you get them back is to really really look at each individual coin under a nice bright light. Unfortuneately having them graded by ANACS may not teach you as much as one of the top 2 companies... but pour over these coins and learn. Absorb what they are calling an AU58 and see if you can't find similarities in the different 58 coins... It may not jump off at you right away... but see if you can't see the slightest rub or luster break that caused them to call the coin an 58.[/QUOTE]
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