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Newfoundland 5c 1880 Double Portrait Variety

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 Posted 03/08/2015  4:36 pm  Show Profile   Check Pacificoin's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add Pacificoin to your friends list
Indeed CV. Pop is not high that is for sure! It is truly what everyone can agree on....... NEAT. A marker for this variety is an always weak second 8.
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 Posted 03/08/2015  7:52 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add bosox to your friends list
There is a NS Half Cent that is similar.
http://www.victoriancent.com

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 Posted 03/08/2015  10:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add canadian-varieties to your friends list
Thanks bosox! I'll have to go find one
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 Posted 03/09/2015  1:17 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add canadian-varieties to your friends list
bosox..out of curiosity, which year? :)
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 Posted 03/09/2015  6:38 pm  Show Profile   Check thedollarman's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add thedollarman to your friends list
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 Posted 11/08/2017  5:53 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add canadian-varieties to your friends list
Does anyone know if PCGS is recognizing this variety?
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 Posted 11/08/2017  7:18 pm  Show Profile   Check SPP-Ottawa's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add SPP-Ottawa to your friends list
PCGS was pretty generous calling that an AU-58...
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 Posted 11/08/2017  8:37 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add canadian-varieties to your friends list
I could have sworn I saw a PCGS # for this variety somewhere but can't find it
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 Posted 11/10/2017  12:40 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Andy888 to your friends list
Great coin but AU-58? I think that's rather generous. Looks VF-35 to me.
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LOL...wow, a lot of haters hating on the coin. Anyone see a better example? I think Hugh Powell has a cleaned AU with hairlines, that's about it.

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 Posted 11/10/2017  3:10 pm  Show Profile   Check SPP-Ottawa's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add SPP-Ottawa to your friends list
No hating here, but an AU-58 usually only has the finest of circulation wear on the highest points of the devices, and almost no marks in the fields... in this case, the entire cheek of the Queen has been impacted.

Ask yourself this question. If you saw that very coin in a dealers case at a coin show, raw inside a 2.2 flip, and the coin dealer wrote AU-58 on that 2x2 flip - would you have a discussion about said grade of that coin?

My original point was not about finding a better example of this variety. I know weaker strikes can be an issue with that series, and I have no problems calling it an AU. I just commented that PCGS was generous with this coin, because I would have expected an AU-50 or AU-53 grade from them, at the most.
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 Posted 11/10/2017  4:34 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add canadian-varieties to your friends list


I was thinking more of the "VF35" comment lol...the coin has almost full lustre, maybe the angle makes it look worse..I think PCGS may have gone with eye appeal...but it's probably closer to AU53 than AU58...

I bought this from Hugh Powell before the variety was published and before he doubled the prices (and rightfully so - this is the COOLEST NFLD variety!

https://www.newcancoinsandcurrency....oundland.php




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 Posted 11/10/2017  5:10 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Andy888 to your friends list
VF-35 was just my opinion mate. If that comment really upset you then I'm sorry. I think most people agree that the coin appears to be over graded.
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 Posted 11/17/2017  09:45 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TheDeductible to your friends list
This is a coin you won't soon forget eyeballing.

Definitely a sexy AU coin. I'd love to have it!
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 Posted 11/17/2017  10:11 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DEVLEC to your friends list

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LOL...wow, a lot of haters hating on the coin


Wow..Here he goes again...........

http://goccf.com/t/296085&whichpage=2


Newfoundland-5c-1880-Double-Portrait-Variety

For me, they are just nice varieties..no more and no less..
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