MS60 Grade
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It seems to me that you don't nearly see this grade very often, as opposed to MS61 and MS62, unless you get something net graded at ANACS or SEGS - do you suppose it's because the grading services don't get that many coins that would grade at this level or is it, in fact, one of those grades that's actually pretty hard to quantify and locate?
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as for raw, who'd offer their own coin as MS60? if it's a 60, surely you can make a case for 61?
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I've got a trio of $10 libs in rattler PCGS 60 holders, the coins look like what is in newer 61 and 62 slabs these days, maybe back then if a coin didn't make 63 it would just get 60, they didn't use 61, 62, and 64 nearly as much back in the old days as they do now.
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I think ANACS must have automatically downgraded it to 60 because of the horizontal abrasions in the hair on the obverse. the reverse is very clean - i would say 65 condition.
i bought it graded, so i'll take it.
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And I have noticed since then that the MS-61 grade has about disappeared as well. I just did a title search on ebay for MS-60 through 70 and other than what to me was a surprising number of 60's there are fewer 61's than anything other than 68.
MS-60 231 items
MS-61 71
MS-62 246
MS-63 732
MS-64 792
MS-65 804
MS-66 306
MS-67 110
MS-68 35
MS-69 141
MS-70 81
When you consider that the original definition of MS-60 was that it was supposed to be a TYPICAL uncirculated coin and that a MS-65 was expected to exist at about a 1:100 ratio you can see that grading definitions have really changed since slabbing began.
Any uncirculated coin.
Therefore, if a coin could have more marks, it would be at least MS 61. MS 60 is a generic term for those that are not involved with 61 & 62 and is not a particularly useful term for those that are interested in all the #'s.
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