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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 963722, member: 2972&quot;]G, you have to take off your techincal grading hat and put on a market grading one....&nbsp; Here&#039;s how to do that (for those of you not aware)....</p><p><br /></p><p>First, understand that PCGS market grades, and they do not techincal grade as the ANA does.&nbsp; Forget what they wrote in their grading books and website.&nbsp; It is only used to arrive at the base grade, not the final, market grade.&nbsp; As an aside, it is worth noting that the EAC standards, a version of market grading, are much closer to PCGS than ANA.</p><p><br /></p><p>Second, compare that coin&#039;s planchet to the average 1814 and you will quickly notice how nice of a coin it is.</p><p><br /></p><p>Combine the two, and then perhaps you&#039;ll understand how PCGS arrived at the grade it did.</p><p><br /></p><p>All that said, I&#039;d like the coin much more in a g-6 slab rather than a vg-8 one, but only having crappy pictures to go on, I&#039;ll take PCGS&#039;s word on it and agree with the grade/valuation -- that coin is clearly worth more than G-4 money and that&#039;s what PCGS is trying to predict -- the market value not the technical grade....Mike[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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