PCGS Low Ball Type Set (1792-1964) (how low can you go?)

I doubt he means artificial wear on the homemade ones. I looked at his Buffalo nickels, and I've seen MUCH worse on naturally worn ones. I can't believe his type 1 made PO1, "United States of America" isn't even merged with the rim, and you can still see part of "Five Cents". I've seen some with "Liberty" just plain GONE.

The Jefferson does look a little funny. I did once find a Jefferson with enough natural wear to render the date unreadable (threw it back into circulation, unfortunately), and his looks like quite a bit different wear pattern than what I remember.

I can only think the cost to slab all these...?

Some of them go for quite a bit of money for being in such poor grades lol. For example I've had people tell me they would be willing to pay in excess of $150 for certain date/mm ikes especially the later dates.

I'll be the contrarian here ... I very much appreciate the set and salute the collector who had the vision, patience and financial means to pull it together.

Sure ... some of the coins can be criticized as being too low in value to send to PCGS ... but that misses the point of the collection.

Assembling this fabulous collection took most likely years (decades) of dedicated searching to achieve ... and shows our Nation's coinage history on the low end of the grading spectrum.

I personally view it as a monumental success ... and despite a few coins that we can argue about grade and slabbing costs ... the assembled collection is IMHO a masterpiece of work by a serious and dedicated collector.

That's my view ... and I'm sticking with it.

David