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Posted 08/20/2013 08:48 am
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...I think MS65 is GEM, 63-64 is CHU and 60-62 is UNC due primarily that they can not have any wear while the highest grade aUNC could possibly be would be AU-58 as it is the first grade to allow for any wear whatsoever...
...I think MS65 is GEM, 63-64 is CHU and 60-62 is UNC due primarily that they can not have any wear while the highest grade aUNC could possibly be would be AU-58 as it is the first grade to allow for any wear whatsoever...
I would love to agree with you, but in my experience this is simply not what the American TPGs do. Maybe everyone with low-MS slabs are simply bad photographers, but too many such coins have what I would classify as very light wear on them. For example (and not wishing to pick on any one dealer here), can someone please explain to me why the dark spots on the high points of this 1915 shilling are not wear? Because they look like wear to me. I wouldn't grade that coin better than aUnc because of them.
It might also be enlightening to read this conversion chart published by CGS-UK which I just found, converting American slab-grades to British grades. Now British graders are even tougher than ours - they've downshifted the American grades by two full grades, but they agree that American "MS" ain't always Unc anymore: British Unc begins at MS-63.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
