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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Harpagon coins, post: 2009811, member: 71578&quot;]Thanks guys for your input.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do believe they may have a reason for giving it a MS62 but that grossly contradicts their grading standards applied to other coins - even of the same year and type. Gradeflation I know about, but I&#039;m talking of coins graded within max 18 months of each other. I doubt that grading standards were rigidly reigned in within that time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Example, I&#039;ve had 5 of the same Siegestaler 1871 Bavaria graded in that time and I&#039;m sorry, they&#039;re very loose with their grading, when I see grades flying from MS66 (overgraded) down to AU58 and they simply don&#039;t match faithfully their grade descriptions.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.pcgs.com/grades.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/grades.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcgs.com/grades.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t say for most coins how the grading goes as I&#039;m no expert, but my area, German state 1800 -1871 I know very well and I&#039;ve had enough graded - identical coins included to see that the grading is flying around sometimes.</p><p><br /></p><p>A good example I found was on Heritage auction - there&#039;s an old thaler their which was sold as UNC excessive hairlines. Even the commentary by Heritage auction states that the grader had hairlines on his lens or eyeglasses. The coin has NO SUCH THING.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first photo of an MS66 graded Siegesthaler. Impressive! Sorry for the quality. It&#039;s currently on auction and the photo is what it is.</p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t found another PR64 Siegesthaler, but it would have been a very good comparison.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other two are mine, both graded MS64.</p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t even added the MS62 to confound the situation, since it&#039;s a Wurttemburg thaler.</p><p><br /></p><p>What do you think guys?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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