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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bob Evancho, post: 5405582, member: 84595&quot;]Hello Insider.&nbsp; This is an easy one to answer.&nbsp; If you take a Perfect Mint State 70 Silver Eagle and cut it perfectly in Half, you, now, no longer have a MINT STATE coin.&nbsp; You have a Post Mint Damaged coin which can Never be graded any grade.&nbsp; It is an altered coin and in this case it is an altered coin to look like a perfectly split planchet.&nbsp; I would put it in an ICG &quot;For Educational Purposes&quot; holder without grade to use to educate collectors on how a coin can be altered to look like a rare error.&nbsp; As an example, let us take an MS-63 1879 Indian Cent and skillfully alter it into an 1877 rarity.&nbsp; The die characteristics for an 1879 do not match the die characteristics for an 1877.&nbsp; ICG would encapsulate this coin without grade &quot;For Educational Purposes&quot;.&nbsp; Although this example mentioned was an MS-63 1879, it is no longer gradable once it is PMDed and altered.&nbsp; I can see no logical reason why a TPG doesn&#039;t put a numerical grade on a problem Uncirculated or circulated coin.&nbsp; Unless they don&#039;t really know how to Details numerical grade by their standards.&nbsp; To use UNC Details without saying an MS Grade is like a weather man saying there is a 50/50 chance of snow.&nbsp; If it snows, he&#039;s right and if it doesn&#039;t snow, he&#039;s right.&nbsp; Now let me stand corrected, ICG is another TPG that gives a numerical DETAILS grade for details coins.&nbsp; I just checked some of my ICG Details coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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