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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 4564182, member: 24314&quot;]<b><font size="5"><span style="color: rgb(179, 0, 0)">UNFORTUNATELY,</span></font></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">This appears to be a case where someone saw something, forgot what he saw, stated a question based on what he remembered which misrepresented what actually occurred.&nbsp; There is nothing to explain.&nbsp; The NGC owner &quot;schooled&quot; us on that coin.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">It appears the OP still has some questions.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">The obverse of coin is cleaned but not harshly!&nbsp; Therefore, the coin was detail graded.&nbsp; It was never straight graded 53, 55, or 58!&nbsp; <font size="6"><b>IF</b><font size="4"> <font size="5">the cleaning</font> were not so noticeable, the option was to lower its grade (STUPID NET GRADING) so as to more approximate its commercial VALUE.&nbsp; </font></font></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">The reason net grading is STUPID is a person who is not a &quot;numismatic genius&quot; would look at the coin and wonder why a coin with so little friction (AU-58) was graded so low (AU-53).&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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