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Message:: [QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2943234, member: 71723"]Now that we have a second side, yes, I can say I concur. MS64. Let me offer a theory on why this might trouble you. There has been a myth circulating (pun IS intended) in this hobby that an MS65 coin is a "virtually perfect coin". That myth made SENSE when all there was was MS60, MS65, and in theory, MS70. We really used to be in that place. As more "tweener" grades came to be, the idea that MS65 meant "almost perfect" went away (except perhaps in Doug's mind) <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. You look at this coin and say, "Wow, that's farther away from 'virtually perfect' than a single point." And you'd be right. What was WRONG was getting the old system started in the first place, and THAT is my counter-argument to the "all grades are gradeflated" meme that is actually pure crap. Today's grading system is, in my opinion, far SUPERIOR to the one the "dinosaurs" long for, even if one of them IS our own head moderator. When all we had was 60, 65, and 70, it was okay to call a nearly perfect coin a 65. Under that system, your coin was a 60. Now that we have every point, a nearly perfect coin is a 67, 68, or 69, and yours is a 64. That is NOT "gradeflation"; it's enhanced accuracy, PERIOD![/QUOTE]