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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2089300, member: 112&quot;]Equal how ? Equal in all other grading criteria - the things that are used to establish the grade of a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not talking value, never even mentioned value, because value has nothing to do with the grade. An &#039;09-S VDB in 65 is worth many thousands of dollars. But a 2007 cent in 65 is worth what, a dollar, if that ? They both have the same grade so rather obviously the value does not determine the grade. Now yes those are extreme examples, but even an &#039;09-S VDB in G6 is worth more, a lot more, than an &#039;07 cent in 65. So again, value does not determine the grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nor am I talking about aesthetics, I am talking about things that are physically there or not there on the coin. If a coin has large contact marks in the prime focal area, and it has equal luster, equal hairlines or lack of them, an equal quality of strike, is equally well centered, is struck on a planchet of equal quality, etc etc, as a coin that does not have those large contact marks in the prime focal area, then that coin is graded lower than the other example without them. And this is true every single time. Is it not ?</p><p><br /></p><p>So now, we have 2 coins that are equal in every way, except one has die cracks and the other does not. Those die cracks are there, they are physical, measurable, they are tangible just like contact marks are tangible. And they are flaws just like contact marks are flaws. So how can those 2 coins possibly be graded the same ?</p><p><br /></p><p>You know what the problem is with this ? The answer is obvious, and I think obvious to everybody, but nobody likes the answer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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