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<p>[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 4124163, member: 15309"]The real question is does the wear/luster breaks that Doug are seeing constitute an AU55 grade? As someone who is typically conservative with regards to the line between AU & MS, even you think this coin is MS because of the lack of disturbance in the fields. This breaks it down into two questions. Are the luster breaks the result of circulation wear or coin to coin contact? And if they are from circulation, is the degree of the wear significant enough to warrant an AU55 grade?</p><p><br /></p><p>My personal opinion is that there does seem to be friction in the fields but that the overall friction on the obverse is limited to high point wear and that the resultant detail and remaining luster is consistent with an AU58 grade. My evaluation of the reverse is that it is near gem grade with absolutely no wear at all. As a result, I assigned a net grade of MS62.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obviously Doug disagrees with me and thinks that the wear on the obverse rises to the level of an AU55 coin. I have not heard him discuss the reverse and knowing his grading style, I don’t expect to hear him take it into consideration. He believes that in a split grade coin that the lower graded side becomes a grade limiter. So if the obverse is AU55, the entire coin is AU55 no matter the grade of the reverse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 4124163, member: 15309"]The real question is does the wear/luster breaks that Doug are seeing constitute an AU55 grade? As someone who is typically conservative with regards to the line between AU & MS, even you think this coin is MS because of the lack of disturbance in the fields. This breaks it down into two questions. Are the luster breaks the result of circulation wear or coin to coin contact? And if they are from circulation, is the degree of the wear significant enough to warrant an AU55 grade? My personal opinion is that there does seem to be friction in the fields but that the overall friction on the obverse is limited to high point wear and that the resultant detail and remaining luster is consistent with an AU58 grade. My evaluation of the reverse is that it is near gem grade with absolutely no wear at all. As a result, I assigned a net grade of MS62. Obviously Doug disagrees with me and thinks that the wear on the obverse rises to the level of an AU55 coin. I have not heard him discuss the reverse and knowing his grading style, I don’t expect to hear him take it into consideration. He believes that in a split grade coin that the lower graded side becomes a grade limiter. So if the obverse is AU55, the entire coin is AU55 no matter the grade of the reverse.[/QUOTE]
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