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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1245871, member: 112"]Two reasons - first the obvious, the grade itself. When looking at a coin like that and the grade doesn't seem to fit - there's a reason. The coin looks too nice to be an AU, but the grader sees breaks in the luster. So he grades it as MS61 - in other words he gave a grade bump.</p><p><br /></p><p>I see the same breaks in the luster that the grader saw - on the hair and the bonnet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1245871, member: 112"]Two reasons - first the obvious, the grade itself. When looking at a coin like that and the grade doesn't seem to fit - there's a reason. The coin looks too nice to be an AU, but the grader sees breaks in the luster. So he grades it as MS61 - in other words he gave a grade bump. I see the same breaks in the luster that the grader saw - on the hair and the bonnet.[/QUOTE]
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