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| Newp - 1837 Capped Bust Half Dollar - What Do You Think?
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SsuperDdave
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United States
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 Posted 07/03/2020 6:54 pm
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The marks - which are not really congruent with Mint handling - are what defined the grade, instead of the lack of apparent wear and nicely even toning which belies any surface rub at all. I must reluctantly agree with the grade. It had to have gone somewhere, and been handled somehow. That's "AU58" in a nutshell.
Late die state of GR-17. |
| | Forum: US Classic and Colonial Coins |
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| Seated Dollar Surface Condition & Opinions
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SsuperDdave
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United States
23522 Posts |
Posted 07/19/2018 1:24 pm
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There's not a chance my grading company would straight-grade it, if I had one. 
I could see the obverse naturally toning prior to the reverse, under the right conditions, and it doesn't necessarily look completely out of the ordinary to me. However, that would mean it was exposed for a long time when the reverse wasn't at all, and as a result there wouldn't be patchy areas of very dark toning as seen on the reverse. The conclusion is the coin has been cleaned in the past, likely because it was the reverse which toned more darkly, and I'm again clueless as to how PCGS came up with what they did. The technical grade is a tad generous, as well. |
| | Forum: US Classic and Colonial Coins |
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| Recommend A Doubled Die
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SsuperDdave
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United States
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Posted 07/19/2018 11:13 am
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| The 188-O "Hot Lips" Morgan is a spectacular double which is common enough to find in a slab for <$200 although that would be a well-circulated example. |
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| Coins Through The Mail
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SsuperDdave
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United States
23522 Posts |
Posted 07/19/2018 11:09 am
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Coins won't care about ambient temps around 10% of their metal's melting point. I'd be more worried about the packaging, especially if the sender managed to get adhesive into a position where it could melt onto the coin and/or outgassing be a problem.
For anyone but the most rural of rural customers, there are many good reasons to justify the cost of a PO Box. This is one of them.
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| Can Something With This Flaw Be Considered " Proof 65 Or Higher? " ($50 Buffalo)
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SsuperDdave
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United States
23522 Posts |
Posted 07/19/2018 11:00 am
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PCGS has graded 67,000 Gold $50 Buff Proofs. Of that number, only 266 (essentially one-third of one percent) have graded below PR69. Even with the understanding that coins submitted to PCGS are a pretty selective sample, it's not unreasonable to think that the coin here would join the other six PR65 examples in a PCGS slab. Count your blessings - I'd hate to be the person who got one of the three PR63's.
The evidence indicates to me that it's a planchet flaw rather than damage, as others have opined. That being the case, by comparison to the quality of the overwhelming majority of this issue (really, who cares about the grade of a bullion coin?) I could call it 65. Sometimes the curve forces itself.
It_is a bit bothersome that MCM would use the terms "Gem BU" and "Guaranteed Proof 65 or better" in the same writeup, though. |
| | Forum: US Commemoratives and Non-Circulating Coinage (NCLT) Including Grading, Varieties, and Errors |
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| Good Environment For Coin Storage
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SsuperDdave
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United States
23522 Posts |
Posted 07/08/2018 11:43 am
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There's a reason why superannuated commercial aircraft are parked for storage in desert conditions, and it's the same reason guiding "appropriate" coin storage: minimizing metal corrosion. There are two main enemies of surface preservation, humidity and oxygen. Obviously, it's kind of difficult to minimize oxygen in the environment, so we seek to minimize humidity in order to forestall the reactions against metals which require both of those ingredients.
You'll see vacuum packing offered as a good step in long-term coin storage - I'm a fan myself - for the same reasons. |
| | Forum: US Modern Coins |
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| Typo Error 1852 J-145 Ring Coin
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SsuperDdave
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United States
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Posted 07/08/2018 11:29 am
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I have to bring this thread back from the dead.
No, you don't. The original poster has not been seen since. It usually happens this way, and that's why we (and virtually every other online forum) frown upon raising old threads. |
| | Forum: US Classic and Colonial Coins |
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| 1921 D Morgan VAM 1j Or 1-P
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SsuperDdave
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United States
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Posted 07/04/2018 08:21 am
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| 1P. There's a number of major telltales, the most prominent to me being the massive destruction around the date. 1J has an early and prominent crack from chin through neck and the 1 in the date as a counterpoint. |
| | Forum: US Peace and Morgan Dollar VAM |
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| The Top Highest Priced Coins Do Not Sell On Ebay, Do They?
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SsuperDdave
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United States
23522 Posts |
Posted 07/03/2018 12:43 pm
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Using eBay as a form of advertising.
This. It's a ton cheaper than buying ads, and generates a ton of buzz in threads just like this one, all over the Internet. They're not dummies.
Another point this raises is the finicky nature of Feedback. When you look at RCR's Feedback, it reads "95.8%," which should be a red flag to anyone shopping eBay. Then, you look closer, and see it's because of one_single_transaction out of 400 total, a few months ago. The buyer, who has only two Feedbacks of their own, paid a top-of-the-market price for a slabbed coin, and then decided they didn't like the coin. No mention is made anywhere of having returned the coin - if they did, Negative Feedback isn't warranted - but they left a Neg anyway.
Number one, the dealer didn't call the coin "66DMPL." PCGS did. Number two, if you choose to return the coin, you got no right to whine. Number three, if you didn't return the coin, shame on you.
Takeaway? Feedback scores are just a starting point on the road to due diligence. |
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| Are There Any Coins That Are Particularly Difficult To Grade?
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SsuperDdave
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United States
23522 Posts |
Posted 07/03/2018 12:30 pm
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The hardest for me (US-centric) are Buffalo Nickels, Washington Quarters and Franklin Halves. The latter two have too little small detail to easily grade circulated and AU/BU, and the former has way too much detail in the low places (obfuscating marks) and too little in the high places.
All issues have "smoking gun" telltales, even the tough ones. It's on us to drill down and learn the details. |
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