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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TypeCoin971793, post: 3660752, member: 78244&quot;]When you grade a coin on surface preservation, luster, and strike, eye appeal naturally falls out. A coin with few marks, good strike and great luster will have exceptional eye appeal, toned or not. That coin will get a high grade. When you have many bagmarks, the eye appeal goes down, and so does the grade. I’m not advocating for ignoring eye appeal altogether. I’m advocating for not treating it as a separate grading category. Eye appeal is a requisite for a given grade level, not an excuse to bump up to the next one. If you have a designation for exceptional eye appeal (star, etc.), then use it! A grade bump is not necessary.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Take a nicely-toned technical MS-65 and bump it to a 66. The market will see it as a nicely-toned 66 and attach a premium on top of the 66 grade. Of course it will sell for much more than a single grade bump, and even more still over the technical grade. This is a side-effect of double dipping. The nicely-toned 65 will still sell for much more than a generic 65, even when graded as such.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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