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<p>[QUOTE="howboutatrade, post: 1179911, member: 10387"]My heirs will check on "official" grade as I am not a fan of slabs. I do feel strongly about opinions from senior members of this forum, including moderators, being "stuck" in past posts. All comments coming from people with approx. 10x the experience as me (based on posts made), that all understand difficulties of coin photography, but will continue to fight for an opinion made on incorrect information.</p><p> </p><p>I, the OP, admitted my mistake (poor lighting that over emphasized marks) and reposted with more true to the issue information (similar lighting with known MS66, new lighting both unknown and known coins, etc). That does not seem to matter. The senior members have their minds made up and I am supposed to accept their opinions, even though I know their opinion is based on incorrect information. Sorry, I do not accept and in fact it will cause me to question more going forward because I have new information about how senior members form their opinions.</p><p> </p><p>Look at the first picture of the 1976 Kennedy...the number of marks are well more than expected for an MS66...however, it is officially graded as such by NGC. So were the graders at NGC that far off, or was my picture that far off? Look at the new picture of the 1976, it is probably more representative of what the NGC graders were looking at. View all the facts and then form an opinion...fighting for old opinions by ignoring new info, well I won't give my opinion on that approach.</p><p> </p><p>[ATTACH]123260.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]123248.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="howboutatrade, post: 1179911, member: 10387"]My heirs will check on "official" grade as I am not a fan of slabs. I do feel strongly about opinions from senior members of this forum, including moderators, being "stuck" in past posts. All comments coming from people with approx. 10x the experience as me (based on posts made), that all understand difficulties of coin photography, but will continue to fight for an opinion made on incorrect information. I, the OP, admitted my mistake (poor lighting that over emphasized marks) and reposted with more true to the issue information (similar lighting with known MS66, new lighting both unknown and known coins, etc). That does not seem to matter. The senior members have their minds made up and I am supposed to accept their opinions, even though I know their opinion is based on incorrect information. Sorry, I do not accept and in fact it will cause me to question more going forward because I have new information about how senior members form their opinions. Look at the first picture of the 1976 Kennedy...the number of marks are well more than expected for an MS66...however, it is officially graded as such by NGC. So were the graders at NGC that far off, or was my picture that far off? Look at the new picture of the 1976, it is probably more representative of what the NGC graders were looking at. View all the facts and then form an opinion...fighting for old opinions by ignoring new info, well I won't give my opinion on that approach. [ATTACH]123260.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]123248.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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