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Rest in Peace
United States
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Very well evenly struck AU-53 and an absolute beauty. I really like this coin.
This should bring better than average AU price if you ever sell it.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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AU53 is my grade and O-104a is your Overton variety.
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 |
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I had it at AU55 and O104a.
Is it worth having it slabbed?
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Yes, that coin is worth having slabbed. NGC is a bit stricter on BH but will usually sell to a wider audience. PCGS has taken a lot of heat in the last year for overgraded BH.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I would say AU55 and is certainly worthy of getting slabbed! I love the die cracks.
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Absolutely worth having slabbed and I agree to go with NGC. Did you just acquire this?
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Bedrock of the Community
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Nice AU-53/55, O104 as others have said, and send to NGC
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Coin was acquired on 11/5/1969 for $30.00 by my father-in-law through a coin auction via snail mail. The envelope had a grade on it: VF+.
So, today a $30.00 coin would cost $198 adjusted for inflation.
NGC has a 1814 VF coin listed value of $210 - Spot on! And an AU55 value of $1055.
It appears that there is gradeflation happening! Has grading become more lax in this time span?
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01/02/2017 7:46 pm
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I think grading has become less subjective and more standardized over time. Folks had widely differing standards back then, and that still occurs today, but information availability and technology have bridged that gulf to some degree. I don't think we will ever get rid of all subjectivity because folks are different in their preferences, but a lot of nonsense that happened because people didn't know any better has gone away. The original grader for your coin was likely a conservative grader using a conservative grading scale.
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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AU-53. Yes grade inflation has been rampant over the last few decades. The number of collectors of Capped Bust Halves has also increased greatly too driving up prices. There are some very serious collectors out there with a lot of discretionary income in this series.
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