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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 2091579, member: 46237&quot;]Yes, that&#039;s exactly my point. The TPGs are market grading and they <i>aren&#039;t </i>downgrading for die cracks. This is a clear indication that the market doesn&#039;t see them as flaws and that they still fall under &quot;esoteric aspects&quot; to be determined by the collector in pricing. Doug is arguing that the TPGs and the market have all got it wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But at the time of striking, the cracks <i>are</i> in the die and the die is being deliberately used. Let&#039;s say they carefully produce a fully struck coin with those dies, ensuring it does not come in contact with other coins. The resulting coin will be a fully lustrous perfect uncirculated specimen that is faithful to the dies used, is it not?</p><p><br /></p><p>Take the Bashlow CSA restrikes for example since this represents the extreme. Here&#039;s an NGC MS68 example courtesy of Heritage, but if you care to check the pop reports, you&#039;ll see NGC and PCGS have both graded these up to 68s. We&#039;re not just talking die cracks here. These dies were defaced with a hammer and chisel. You can clearly get a perfect (or nearly so) coin from any die state.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://dyn2.heritagestatic.com/lf?set=path%5B1%2F1%2F0%2F3%2F2%2F11032683%5D%2Csizedata%5B840x2000%5D&amp;call=url%5Bfile%3Aproduct.chain%5D" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; </p><p><img src="http://dyn3.heritagestatic.com/lf?set=path%5B1%2F1%2F0%2F3%2F2%2F11032684%5D%2Csizedata%5B840x2000%5D&amp;call=url%5Bfile%3Aproduct.chain%5D" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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