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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 597605, member: 15199&quot;]I came into a group of one of my favorite Lincolns ( 1960 D/D sm/lg) and submitted them to NCG for grading. Before I did, I took each coin and found specific small marks, or in a couple of cases, small spots, to identify each one when they returned. I marked them on a printed page I made specifically for Lincoln Memorial cents with a fine pencil mark and wrote what I thought each would grade. Here is the blank page. I took one set of photos and duped them and then changed to monotone to make it easier to see the mark I made.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq279/desertgem/lincspage.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This made it easy to find which coin ( and my grade) compared with NCG&#039;s grade. I had graded&nbsp; the 12 as&nbsp; 4- MS65RD, 5- MS64RD, and 3- MS-63RD. These were all from the same source.&nbsp; Below are the returns.&nbsp; All 4 of the MS-65s were called MS-65, 2 of the MS-64 were also called MS65. The remaining 64s were called MS-64. One of my MS-63 came back MS63 RB instead of RD, and 2 came back with improper cleaning bodybag. I would love to talk to them about those as they were a later die state and had some very fine polish lines in the field in front of Lincoln&#039;s face, and I strongly do not believe they had been cleaned, but that was their opinion.</p><p>The bottom rows look darker due to the light source.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq279/desertgem/pcgs60d-d.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The point of this is that if you are going to submit coins, make a record if you have more than one of the same type so you can learn from them. Write down your grade, so you can compare. Make it also a learning experience as Az. Jack and Doug have mentioned before.</p><p><br /></p><p>Jim[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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