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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 3247305, member: 15309&quot;]You can say the exact same thing about the numerical grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>For cheap coins, it doesn’t matter, when you talk about rare coins, no they can’t stand on their own merit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here’s my guess.&nbsp; When you were a coin flipper/dealer over the last few years, one of your business models was to use your knowledge of early American coinage to buy raw coins at discounted prices (1-2 grades lower than the actual grade), and then send them for grading to make a tidy profit.&nbsp; Did you ask why the raw coin couldn’t stand on its own merit, or did you simply exploit the fact that it couldn’t?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>How would a proof coin that obtained hairlines from improper storage be differentiated from a proof coin that was wiped with a cloth?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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