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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BUncirculated, post: 1379990, member: 29581&quot;]If you can not see the contact marks all over the obverse, including above the motto, and no those are not surface scratches on the holder, they are most definitely contact marks in the coin itself, which I noticed without holding my mouse over the image to blow it up, then you need either glasses or more refining of your &quot;online image grading&quot;. If you like, I&#039;ll be more than happy to point out those marks, which were the first things I noticed on the obverse image.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Overall grading experience has much to do with an individual series. Obviously you disagree, but it is what it is.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>So basically, you&#039;re saying that anyone who submits raw coins regularly is more experienced in that series than someone who doesn&#039;t?</p><p><br /></p><p>Hogwash!</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t submit coins for numerous reason but I&#039;ll tell you just a few:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. My collections is just that, a collection. Not an investment for quick flipping.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. High priced opinions nothing more. I can get free opinions on grades from a consortium of local dealers anytime. No postage, insurance, or opinion fees.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. Except for authentication, the coin is what it is regardless of what a label states. It&#039;s purely marketing more than anything else.</p><p><br /></p><p>What do you think us old timers did back in the day before the TPGs? The original Sheldon scale worked just fine for all of us. The fractional numbers now placed on coins is meaningless except to those who are flippers or are praying their backsides off for the loosely used 70 on the label, which in and of itself is nothing more than marketing. </p><p><br /></p><p>In the long run, the coin is what it is, not because the TPG says so.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m willing to bet if the OP cracked this coin out of it&#039;s current holder, resubmitted it, the grade would be different, and quite possibly more realistic than it is.</p><p><br /></p><p>End of story.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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