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Grading A Coin With A Slight Obverse Misalignment

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When grading a coin, can a coin who's obverse is slightly out of center, but still within mint tolerances get a grade of 70?
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Good question. Can any error coin for that matter?
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Very interesting question and I'm surprised no one has replied with an answer. I would say no, since MS-70 means a perfect coin. A coin can't be perfect, if the dies were misaligned to make the rim be imperfect. Which is true for all error coins.

And what about variety coins? Is a variety coin considered perfect? Like an RPM? I would say no, since the person striking the hammer didn't hit it correctly to make a perfect mintmark.

But what about other varieties, like the Wide AM?
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I want to say no because we have only seen 2 coins get MS70. Also an error is something wrong with the coin in the first place.

I dont think a variety would keep the coin from reaching MS70 though since the variety is on the die its a part of it.

In reality we will never see a variety coin or error coin in MS70.
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You contradict yourself in the last 2 sentences. But a Wide AM is a variety that can be an MS-70 though, since it is just a design variety and not an error with the coin.
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