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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 801657, member: 112&quot;]Siggi - your logic is flawed. There are many, many, many coins where not 1 single example of an MS70 even exist. In fact, for the vast mjority of all coins, there is not 1 of them that would grade MS70. This is true of 99.99% of all coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>So to say that because there is no MS70 example known of hammered coins that they cannot be graded using the numerical system is, well, frankly it&#039;s rediculous.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have showed you several examples of hammered coins in this thread that are 100% uncirculated. That means those coins are Mint State - or MS. You only have ot know the series well enough to be able to assign the correct MS number be it MS60 to MS66. I do not know of any hammered coin that has ever been graded higher than that. In fact, there are but very few that have ever been graded 65. Even MS64 is scarce in hammered coinage. But they do exist.</p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently you don&#039;t realize that the only thing required for a hammered coin to be graded as Mint State is that it be uncirculated. And I can assure you, there are great many, great many, uncirculated examples of hammered coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>And the information on that web site you linked to is flawed. There are more European coin dealers and experts than you can count who will tell you that MS examples of hammered coinage abound. The Europeans absolutely grade hammered coinage that way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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