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<p>[QUOTE="mynamespat, post: 3026551, member: 83738"]..to get a little back to OP... It sounds like he is having a difficult time discerning between wear/bag damage, or possibly mistaking weakness of strike for circulation. It's also possible he is simply misinterpreting photographs. </p><p><br /></p><p>Coins graded MS60 don't tend to be pretty. However, they are usually indefinitely uncirculated (that tends to be the one nice thing you can say about coins in this grade- I've heard 'beat with axe' to describe them). There is often debate over AU58~MS63, MS64~MS65, 62-63 etc. There isn't usually much argument between AU50 and MS60. ...besides finding coins that are graded 4-5 grades higher than expected in top grading company slabs, although not unheard of, is extremely rare. If it were happening to the degree we are trying to be lead, this board would be flush with threads pointing it out.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Are you using a circular light? ...your pictures are much better than many we see (and a large percentage of ebay sellers) already. It just helps to position two lights, one at 10' and one at 2' o'clock for best lighting. When the light is coming from opposite directions, it makes it very difficult to assess. </p><p><br /></p><p>Which coins are you comparing them to on the ebays?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="mynamespat, post: 3026551, member: 83738"]..to get a little back to OP... It sounds like he is having a difficult time discerning between wear/bag damage, or possibly mistaking weakness of strike for circulation. It's also possible he is simply misinterpreting photographs. Coins graded MS60 don't tend to be pretty. However, they are usually indefinitely uncirculated (that tends to be the one nice thing you can say about coins in this grade- I've heard 'beat with axe' to describe them). There is often debate over AU58~MS63, MS64~MS65, 62-63 etc. There isn't usually much argument between AU50 and MS60. ...besides finding coins that are graded 4-5 grades higher than expected in top grading company slabs, although not unheard of, is extremely rare. If it were happening to the degree we are trying to be lead, this board would be flush with threads pointing it out. Are you using a circular light? ...your pictures are much better than many we see (and a large percentage of ebay sellers) already. It just helps to position two lights, one at 10' and one at 2' o'clock for best lighting. When the light is coming from opposite directions, it makes it very difficult to assess. Which coins are you comparing them to on the ebays?[/QUOTE]
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