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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Omegaraptor, post: 2627791, member: 76105&quot;]The silly head is indefensible and should be in a problem holder. Being a Seated collector, I see tons of cleaned coins in straight slabs.</p><p><br /></p><p>And then we start seeing stuff like this:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]577664[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]577665[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]577666[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>If this 1877 IHC were graded a couple decades ago when grading was sensible it would be a VG-10 at best. Key date hype, gradeflation, and this coin somehow got into a VF-20 slab.</p><p><br /></p><p>Grading isn&#039;t what it used to be. Not long before I can submit my lowball candidate 1859-S half and get it into an MS-66 holder.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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