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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 3670431, member: 46237&quot;]Simple and effective. I wish they had done this from the start. It&#039;s inconsistent to sometimes give a grade bump for eye appeal and sometimes give a star.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin I use for my avatar was graded MS66 by NGC. The toning is even more stunning in hand:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]986615[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I believe it got a bump for eye appeal. For certain the coin is a gem, but I have a blast white 66 and a neutrally toned 67, and both have better surfaces. This has the best eye appeal of the three, but to me it would be better served as an MS65* to convey that it is a spectacularly toned 65.</p><p><br /></p><p>To complicate matters, this coin was slabbed before they started giving the star designation to world coins. I sent it back in for designation review for the star after they started doing so, and it did not get it. Although if previously slabbed coins had already gotten a bump for eye appeal, wouldn&#039;t the addition of a star designation essentially be doubling the bump for eye appeal? Perhaps they took this into account when evaluating it, and would have been willing to give it a 65*. Who knows?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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