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Posted 12/31/2025 11:09 pm
The real answer is more complicated than just yes or no. You have to understand the grading companies use nothing verifiable to grade coins. This is why a cracked out coin re-submitted, even to the same company, is never guaranteed the same grade again. Re-slabbing is profitable for the companies and why they keep the grading systems subjective. If they would adopt a universal measureable system then they would not get paid to grade the same coin more than once. It's a business.
No one can predict what will come back on a slab. No one can say for dead sure when something like this will or will not make a difference.
I learned this years ago when a local dealer gave me a challenge. he said to start looking at MS70 slabbed eagles and I would soon find out its not difficult to find them with marks that should have kept them from the perfect MS70.
Therei s absolutely nothing wrong with collecting slabbed coins, its just people need to understand what is inside the slab may not be what they think they are paying for.
Talk is cheap. So here is proof of how inconsistent the companies are:
Common grading company shortcomings & resulting co$tly mi$take$ to collectors (using Kennedy No FG https://www.coincommunity.com/pdf/N...ors_Main.pdf
So the actual answer about whether or not this mark would downgrade the coin or not is that it depends on how good the office coffee is the day the graders see it. Sitting in a little cubicle for 8 hours a day looking at little metal disks would make anyone inconsistent. Plus when there is no verifiable standard used...you get the real picture.
No one can predict what will come back on a slab. No one can say for dead sure when something like this will or will not make a difference.
I learned this years ago when a local dealer gave me a challenge. he said to start looking at MS70 slabbed eagles and I would soon find out its not difficult to find them with marks that should have kept them from the perfect MS70.
Therei s absolutely nothing wrong with collecting slabbed coins, its just people need to understand what is inside the slab may not be what they think they are paying for.
Talk is cheap. So here is proof of how inconsistent the companies are:
Common grading company shortcomings & resulting co$tly mi$take$ to collectors (using Kennedy No FG https://www.coincommunity.com/pdf/N...ors_Main.pdf
So the actual answer about whether or not this mark would downgrade the coin or not is that it depends on how good the office coffee is the day the graders see it. Sitting in a little cubicle for 8 hours a day looking at little metal disks would make anyone inconsistent. Plus when there is no verifiable standard used...you get the real picture.
How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash?
Download and read: Grading the graders
Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halves
https://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2
Download and read: Grading the graders
Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halves
https://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2
