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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rlm&#039;s cents, post: 818588, member: 7957&quot;]Can they differ - YES!&nbsp; Just look at Doug&#039;s grading versus that rest of our grades.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>That is not quite what my copy of &quot;The Official Guide to Coin Grading and Counterfeit Detection&quot; says.&nbsp; Aside from intermingling the terms &quot;wheat lines&quot;, &quot;wheat stalks&quot; and &quot;wheat&quot;, they also say &quot;VF coins will have wheat stalks that will blend together&quot;.&nbsp; I think they are talking about the grain and not the lines.&nbsp; However, their pictures show separated wheat lines for F-12.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lange says it more clearly.&nbsp; VG-8 = &quot;Wheat shows some detail and about half of the lines at the top.&quot;&nbsp; F-12 = &quot;Top wheat lines are worn but separated.&quot;&nbsp; That is what I have always learned except their VG-8 is probably closer to my VG-10.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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