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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Are these accurately graded?  Thanks! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5825 Posts |
The pics aren't quite detailed enough for me to say yea or nay.
I DO note some "unusual" rim conditions on the ANACS coin.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
36905 Posts |
Both coins look AU to me.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6370 Posts |
I would go with the PCGS coin. I feel you are getting more coin for the grade with that one.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3210 Posts |
In terms of eye appeal the PCGS one wins in strides. The Anacs one looks like corrosion and verdigris especially the reverse.
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Rest in Peace
United States
17900 Posts |
If they were the same price, or similar, I'd go with the PCGS.
The ANACS coin has a couple of rim problems that might shift it into a details coin at NGC or PCGS.
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Pillar of the Community
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Seems like the grades are correct but the PCGS coin has much more desirable surfaces.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1499 Posts |
The reverse of the ANACS coin has a lot of possible corrosion on the reverse, inside the letters. If it were to be cracked out and conserved it might disappear; it might not, or it might leave something worse behind. I'd go with PCGS coin, which appears to have no problems. The PCGS piece looks like an AU-50 sharpness coin with a lack of luster, hence the grade, which appears to be on the conservative side. If it's an older holder, it might make AU-50 today.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
94367 Posts |
Agree AU-50 on the PCGS example and that this is the preferable one.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
11917 Posts |
PCGS coin has better surfaces.
ANACSA coin is higher grade with better details.
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
12057 Posts |
The PCGS coin is actually an AU50 sharpness coin as Billjones & Coinfrog noted above. It has better eye appeal (only one reverse carbon spot to distract) than the ANACS coin, which has been cleaned and/or has environmental damage, and also has no better than AU50 sharpness (later die state on the ANACS coin, as evidenced by some rim crumbling on the obverse/reverse) -- in addition, the ANACS example has distracting dings at the front of LIBERTY, cheek, and nose.
The proper way to judge these coins would be to crack them both out and ask yourself: Which coin would I buy? I think most of us here at CCF would choose the PCGS example. This, perhaps, is a better indication of "grade" than the numbers on the label.
Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis Edited by paralyse
01/29/2017 9:28 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
18720 Posts |
I agree with the other comments. I have the ANACS at AU50 and the PCGS graded correctly.
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