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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2351153, member: 24314&quot;]Depends on what a person considers &quot;high grade&quot; to mean.&nbsp; Fortunately &quot;words&quot; have fairly universal meanings.&nbsp; My interpretation of &quot;high grade&quot; is ANY coin 67 and above regardless of its value, mintage, or TPGS pop.&nbsp; Commercial interests like to call some coins in VF &quot;high grade&quot; because they don&#039;t usually come better.&nbsp; Imagine how confusing this can be to someone not at your level of expertise.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve owned a gem 1913 Buffalo for almost forty years that several major dealers thought was a proof (one even owned it for a while until he wanted a refund for trying to &quot;pick it off&quot; at a high price for a MS.&nbsp; Anyway, this coin has a spot that keeps returning every so many years the I have removed several times w/o affecting the coin&#039;s eye appeal/value.&nbsp; Thankfully it is a &quot;only child.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No argument with this; however, IMO the poster tried to mislead us.&nbsp; I care.&nbsp; That&#039;s how much of the BS gets started in numismatics.&nbsp; I do not care that others tolerate this crap (actually I do).&nbsp; Tell a lie long enough and it gets &quot;traction&quot; like: &quot;Dip a coin once and you ruin its luster <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie98" alt=":wacky:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie98" alt=":wacky:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie98" alt=":wacky:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; How about the TPG&#039;s don&#039;t know whose coins they are grading.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie30" alt=":bucktooth:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; What about: &quot;ANACS is the first coin grading service.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&quot;&nbsp; Just one more for you to rub it in:&nbsp; All the numismatists listed as a contributors listed in the Red Book actually helped with its contents. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Slurp, slurp...that&#039;s me drinking it all in.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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