Am I the only one that thinks non-high relief Saints look rather blah, no matter the grade?
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After looking at a high relief, the others just don't get me that excited.
For some reason they just look too flat and the grades, for some reason, almost appear
to be 1 to 2 points higher than they would for other coins with the same amount of blemishes.
I had one in 64 and was thinking it looked more like a 63 or high 62.
Even some on coin facts and other places where the pics are good, ones in 67 or 66 just
seem to have a lot of marks.
What am I missing here?
For some reason they just look too flat and the grades, for some reason, almost appear
to be 1 to 2 points higher than they would for other coins with the same amount of blemishes.
I had one in 64 and was thinking it looked more like a 63 or high 62.
Even some on coin facts and other places where the pics are good, ones in 67 or 66 just
seem to have a lot of marks.
What am I missing here?
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Maybe the $10 Indian can give a Saint a run for its money in this condition.
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Confused. You don't like the design or you don't like how they're graded.
What's your preference, 3cN?
Go to the Louvre and see the Winged Nike of Samothrace. Old and beat up, isn't it?
compared to them, the non-high reliefs seem to have lost a "little" of the wow factor.
The second issue is the grading.
I am used to seeing what a Peace or Morgan look like in 66 & 67.
When I then look at a saint in 66 or 67, I wonder how it got that grade, as a Peace or Morgan with
that many hits would not get a 66 or 67. What is the difference in the way they are graded?
Or is my perception of the grading more likely to be regular and + grading issue?
Blah, compared to what?
to an attractive 1907 extra high relief or even "regular" high relief? possibly.
compared to just about any other coin design? No, no Blah from me. Saints are pretty compared to almost everything else
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