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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 5333273, member: 24314&quot;]baseball21, posted:&nbsp; &quot;thats kind of a silly two grades to pick.&nbsp; 58s are significantly higher quality than 60s.&nbsp; Usually it would be 58 or 63ish.&nbsp; Thinking something could be a 60 basically means no chance at 58.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>eddiespin, posted: &quot;EXACTLY! The dealer who said 58 or 60 doesn&#039;t know how to grade. A 58 later deemed MS is going to bottom-out 63/64, easy.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Unfortunately, I don&#039;t have the time or inclination <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie93" alt=":troll:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> to attempt to educate either of these professional grading &quot;Ex-perts.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I will say that there is a huge difference between &quot;grading theory,&quot; how things should be done, and what actually is done by those over-paid, long-time professional graders/dealers who according to you <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie104" alt=":yawn:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> don&#039;t know how to grade.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The coin I posted about is a slider.&nbsp; It has a definite change of color (friction) up the leg.&nbsp; Thus it has an AU-58 amount of rub.&nbsp; It would be a pleasing coin except that it has a bunch of actual horizontal scratches across the standing figure.&nbsp; I told the dealer ICG would grade it AU-58 Scratched.&nbsp; He told me that IHO, the coin will be straight graded at any top TPGS BASED ON MANY THOUSANDS OF PREVIOUS SUBMISSIONS and his experience as one of the top professional graders in the country.&nbsp; He does not grade coins as you or I; so if it comes back straight graded <b>WE <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie30" alt=":bucktooth:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> are the dummies who cannot grade COMMERCIALLY!</b></p><p><br /></p><p>fretboard, posted: &quot;Interesting as the OP&#039;s reverse is scratched up noticeably so how did it end up with an AU58?&nbsp; This always stumps me as why didn&#039;t it get a details slab as opposed to an AU58?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Details&quot; is a matter of opinion.&nbsp; We have all seen damaged coins that were straight graded.&nbsp; Many of these coins are hundreds of years old.&nbsp; The obvers is the important side of a coin.&nbsp; The small area that is scratched is a tiny percentage of the reverse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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