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1. Re: How do you grade Ike dollars? Any tips?

   

   Comment by jmlanzaf · March 31, 2024 8:57AM · Home› U.S. Coin Forum

   Spots are not allowed on 70s. See "the great milk spot controversy" for details. But a spot here or there doesn't preclude 69, 68, 67 etc. That "blanket statement" is wholly accurate. Now, SOME spots will preclude any number of grades including ALL straight grades. But, you just said "spots" without further description.…

2. Re: How do you grade Ike dollars? Any tips?

   

   Comment by Jacques_Loungecoque · March 31, 2024 9:11AM · Home› U.S. Coin Forum

   I totally get that. Perhaps I wasn’t explicitly clear on my meaning, for which I apologize, and which was: Ike’s specifically drive me nuts because I cannot think of any other series* of coins that on the whole, regularly have spots, milk and/or carbon, in the higher grades, (67 & up). When I’m looking to fill a hole and…