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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 2572562, member: 76863&quot;]20 Cent pieces especially CC ones being an exception for the Seated series.&nbsp; I completely agree it is a marker as has been mentioned and does hold weight, my objection to that practice is that I just don&#039;t believe that should be an automatic limitation if that happened to wear out a little faster than expected.&nbsp; Obviously an AU barber with missing Liberty is highly unlikely, but I have seen a number of them with VF grades I agreed with where the Liberty wouldn&#039;t be considered full.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I should have expanded my initial post a bit to include that I believe we should be grading the whole coin and not just limit something to F at the highest because of a single marker.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I agree with the approach of being more lenient for the ones that usually have poor or weak strikes but I also hold the opinion that grading comparisons should remain within the same date and mint marks since once either of those change you could be working with large difference in the strike quality to begin with.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>For older series where keys are often pretty scare to downright rare I view their grading more as a ranking system against the known survivors.&nbsp; I do agree though that more modern keys are plentiful enough that their &quot;rarity&quot; doesn&#039;t justify grading bumps for that alone.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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