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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WingedLiberty, post: 1236006, member: 26030&quot;]Sounds like an awful experience Woody, sorry to hear it.&nbsp; I think you might be right about different standards for different submitters.&nbsp; My own theory is they have a lot of different graders and the grade you get depends more on whose lap the coin falls into.</p><p><br /></p><p>I just got these four classic commemorative half dollars back from PCGS.&nbsp; They all came back either MS64 or MS65, which pleasantly surprised me.&nbsp; All four of these coins I bought raw, but three of them I bought many, many years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>This Texas Commemorative I bought back in 1970 was I was 13 years old.&nbsp; I can&#039;t remember the exact price, but I think it was around $25???&nbsp; So I&#039;ve had this coin for 41 years!&nbsp; I clearly remember the day I first noticed this coin in my Redbook.&nbsp; I thought it was really beautiful and was wow&#039;d by the ultra low mintage, which I think is around 6,000 coins?&nbsp; (Later I realized that it&#039;s the series mintage which is a more key metric for value.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]132045.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This 1934 Maryland I bought raw in 1980, I can&#039;t remember the price.&nbsp; This has a mintage around 25,000.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]132046.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This 1938 New Rochelle impressed me because of it&#039;s low series mintage of 15,000+.&nbsp; I thought the design of this coin was interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]132047.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally this last one I bought raw off ebay, back in January 2010.&nbsp; This was a risk, but I thought it looked nice and has a fairly low mintage of around 17,000.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]132048.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I don&#039;t think I would ever buy another raw commemorative. I got pretty lucky with all four of these.&nbsp; So the top three coins haven&#039;t been messed with or dipped in at least 30+ years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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