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<p>[QUOTE="Publius2, post: 8471923, member: 105571"]That dollar grade is wrong in so many ways. Even accounting for the leeway the TPGs give these LS dollars, the PMD on this coin should have earned it a details grade even ignoring the cleaning. The cleaning itself warrants a details grade on its own. You can see the dark "halo" around every device where the criminal applied his pencil eraser but couldn't get close to the edges of the devices. </p><p><br /></p><p>It's not even a particularly rare die marriage, either the OC-1 Rarity 4 or OC-2 Rarity 2 so a very rare coin allowance doesn't account for it. (and, just for the record, I don't agree with the very rare coin allowance that you sometimes see)</p><p><br /></p><p>To think that the TPG and CAC gave this a straight grade is pretty unbelievable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Publius2, post: 8471923, member: 105571"]That dollar grade is wrong in so many ways. Even accounting for the leeway the TPGs give these LS dollars, the PMD on this coin should have earned it a details grade even ignoring the cleaning. The cleaning itself warrants a details grade on its own. You can see the dark "halo" around every device where the criminal applied his pencil eraser but couldn't get close to the edges of the devices. It's not even a particularly rare die marriage, either the OC-1 Rarity 4 or OC-2 Rarity 2 so a very rare coin allowance doesn't account for it. (and, just for the record, I don't agree with the very rare coin allowance that you sometimes see) To think that the TPG and CAC gave this a straight grade is pretty unbelievable.[/QUOTE]
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