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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1411108, member: 112"]Well I know what ya mean about excuses. That's how I feel when PCGS says that a coin with light wear can be graded as high as MS67. Or when PCGS says that the only examples of St. Gaudens that do not have light wear are the counterfeits. Or when PCGS says that wear on an MS coin is acceptable because that wear <u>might</u> have come from cabinet friction, or roll friction, or flip rub, or album slides etc etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course the fact that the wear <u>might</u> have come from actual circulation is discounted and not even considered, and so the coins are graded MS anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>And this is all without even mentioning things like contact marks, hairlines, scratches, low quality of luster, eye appeal, and all of the attendant excuses that go with each of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>You see, there are excuses, and then there are excuses <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So I can accept, and agree with, the reasoning for grading coins based on known quality of strike. But all those other things, yeah, those are excuses <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1411108, member: 112"]Well I know what ya mean about excuses. That's how I feel when PCGS says that a coin with light wear can be graded as high as MS67. Or when PCGS says that the only examples of St. Gaudens that do not have light wear are the counterfeits. Or when PCGS says that wear on an MS coin is acceptable because that wear [U]might[/U] have come from cabinet friction, or roll friction, or flip rub, or album slides etc etc. Of course the fact that the wear [U]might[/U] have come from actual circulation is discounted and not even considered, and so the coins are graded MS anyway. And this is all without even mentioning things like contact marks, hairlines, scratches, low quality of luster, eye appeal, and all of the attendant excuses that go with each of them. You see, there are excuses, and then there are excuses :rolleyes: So I can accept, and agree with, the reasoning for grading coins based on known quality of strike. But all those other things, yeah, those are excuses ;)[/QUOTE]
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