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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jtlee321, post: 2723109, member: 73983&quot;]I agree with what you said Dave.&nbsp; CAC, from everything I have read, disregards the plus in their evaluation.&nbsp; The + simply means that PCGS thought the coin was a &quot;high end for the grade&quot; and just not quite there for the next numerical grade.&nbsp; Which is pretty much the same thing that a green bean means.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as those darker spots in the photo&#039;s in the OP.&nbsp; I have an &#039;82-CC which photographs exactly the same way.&nbsp; In hand, the dark spots are very bright and shiny.&nbsp; They are in the highest points of the coin.&nbsp; I believe they are points that did not quite get fully struck out and have the original planchet surfaces.&nbsp; The frost that the rest of the coin exhibits was not struck into it.&nbsp; Therefore it is a striking issue and not a post strike hit or graze.&nbsp; When looking at them under high magnification, you can see that there is no displaced metal caused by post strike surface hits.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think that those areas are treated differently today then they were years ago.&nbsp; My &#039;82-CC is in a PCGS Gen 2.1 holder from 1989 and is graded MS63.&nbsp; Today it would easily go 65.&nbsp; I&#039;ve shown it to several dealers with the grade covered and that&#039;s how they have all graded it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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