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@panzaldi - Sorry that wasn't very clear, yes even at an UNC Details grade - it meets my personal threshold price range for slabbing and fullfils my overall slabbing purpose to preserve the higher end value coins in the collection and make it easier to market, keep, sell, handle, learn about etc for the future generations that will have this collection. Sometimes these older coins with old cleanings get a pass and that would be great, but I understand if it doesn't as well and I'm ok with that.
There is simply put, too much in the collection that it creates a lot of "noise" for someone who hasn't been with it and spent years learning about it. This will help decern between the good stuff, the junk silver, the sentimental stuff and bulk. I hope that makes more sense.
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01/16/2023 09:56 am
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I hope that makes more sense. absolutely makes sense based on the value and your end goal. many of those just starting out in the hobby think they have to slab everything and have no reason behind it other than they see coins slabbed everywhere and think thats what they should do. I typically attempt to teach them when and why you should or shouldn't spend the $$. for this coin there may be a chance that it could come back straight and even if it didnt the value is still there as well as preserve the coin. good luck and please repost it if you do. |
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MS details, old cleaning.
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ms62
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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so.... This coin was sent off to PCGS awhile back and the grade is in..... Any new guesses? This one threw me for a loop for sure. I will have to research it a bit more once I get it back in hand.
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Pillar of the Community
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AU Details, cleaned or altered surfaces
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Bedrock of the Community
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Instinctively, it looks like someone had a go at the X-like scratch that appears in the right obverse field of the new pics.
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Pillar of the Community
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Uh, well, if PCGS coinfacts lists an estimated value of $1050.00 in an AU-58, then getting it slabbed is a no brainer, details or not in my opinion  But ultimately up to you  Oh yeah, for everybody to know, only 8,000 were minted  Edited by mrwhatisit
03/24/2023 8:34 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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You sure this isn't a proof strike? Some of the proofs did have weakness in the head strike.
Well, I guess PCGS would know for sure, right?
Overall appearance resembles an 1856 I have with nearly identical album toning that came back AU50 for unknown reasons
Can't see any wear on this one.
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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You hit the nail on the head Paralyse. It did indeed come back as a proof strike. I did not think it was when I sent it in. I'd rather it have been a business strike for sure. Only 800 some odd proof were made but this one only came back PR62. Oh well! I did have another one come back a way higher grade than I was expecting so it evens out.
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Bedrock of the Community
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62 is fair! I kind of suspected it was a proof.
Very nice, congrats!
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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Yeah I'm still really happy with this coin. All in all, it's been a really good experience sending them into PCGS. The first round I sent 11 in two batches and 6 are on their way back now, anxiously awaiting the other 5 because it includes my favorite coin 1870 quarter. Trying to be patient. But they've been sitting in QA for a couple weeks so someone must not agree. The batch that included this one spent about a day and a half in QA before loading grades and shipping.
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03/25/2023 07:32 am
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Bedrock of the Community
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i would be happy with a PR62 straight grade. I think the coin probably would have graded 63 however the surfaces are quite dull and the toning is not helping with the grade when it comes to eye appeal
nice call paralyse
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Here is the TruView pictures for this 1884 PR62. I feel like the TV make them seem so much darker and moodier than they really are.  |
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I feel like the TV make them seem so much darker and moodier than they really are. this is why we dont like grading from TV's. you have no idea what the actual coin likes due to their photo setup. just look at your in-hand photos vs them |
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