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Last I checked, CAC had not stickered any of the 1804 dollars. As for 26-S Buffs, yes many were poorly struck. Also many have subdued luster. Those aren’t reasons to use a “different yardstick” than … (View Post)

Mark knows far more about grading than I do. I will say, however, that when I collected Buffalos, I saw a lot of overgraded mint state 26-S’s, which I perceived as rare coin leniency. I had a difficu… (View Post)

I like this coin a lot. Not sure the luster gets it in a AU holder but then luster is hard to capture in a photo. (View Post)

Those round marks are not that distracting on an otherwise nice VF coin. Here is the Ray Levoi coin I owned moons ago. Don’t know where it now resides. (View Post)

I guess that’s one way to look at it. Another is that one thing propping up that price for a details coin is a buyer who plans to crack it out, take over exposed photos and flip it raw as a “Gem BU” … (View Post)