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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 1367881, member: 31533&quot;]My understanding has been that BU is what dealers* (see note below) put on their coins when they think it&#039;s about a MS60-63/64, but in reality you probably won&#039;t get more than a 62 and you could end up with a slider. Gem BU is supposedly just above that in the 64-66 range, but again I&#039;d be surprised to see a 66 sold as Gem BU, when a dealer can just as well label it as Choice BU which kind of says it&#039;s above a 65 &#039;by far&#039;. </p><p><br /></p><p>Note: *Now before all the dealers here jump down my throat, I&#039;m not talking about them at all. I&#039;m talking about some stores and such I&#039;ve been in where all the raw coins are generally in 2 x 2s and labeled &quot;BU&quot;. The bad part is that these coins generally are the lowest of the MS states, and are generally priced at what a coin at, say MS 64 or 65 might fetch. As if by saying BU (Brilliant Uncirculated) it somehow translates to the coin being brilliant, well-struck, and without noticable marks. Maybe BU should now be interpreted as &#039;basically uncirculated&#039; in that if it is uncirculated, it&#039;s a low MS grade, and if it looks real nice, it&#039;s probably as slider (or basically an uncirculated coin if you ignore the slightest part of wear).</p><p><br /></p><p>There are dealers on here and at some of the coin shows I&#039;ve been at that seem to be very upfront with their grading. So can&#039;t take this generalization to mean every dealer does this. As I&#039;m learning more about grading, it seems I am having an easier time of spotting the dealers that don&#039;t seem to know their grading. That&#039;s probably good.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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