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Is It A Mint State Kennedy?

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I look on PCGS Photo Grade and their MS66 is a "starting to tone" looking coin and I happened upon what I think is an exact match, or close enough, in a roll of silver investment assets I purchased.

Take a look and give me opinions, if you please. Should I grade this/ebay it/hold it or just toss into the intrinsic pile with the rest of them? Much appreciated.

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 Posted 06/06/2012  11:49 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add clairhardesty to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It might be a mint state coin, I can't tell for sure from the photo, but if it is, it is more like an MS62 or 63 than an MS66.
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 Posted 06/06/2012  11:58 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add dsfreeworld to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
thanks Clair. but again, hold/sell, send for grading?
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 Posted 06/06/2012  12:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jokingjoker to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I would just hold onto it. It has some decent toning and not worth having graded IMHO.
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PCGS' Photograde product -- in my experience -- is utterly useless for MS grades. Most of the features that one must take into account for MS60-70 (such as bag marks, hairlines, luster, etc.) can't properly be reproduced from a low-resolution head-on shot of the coin, and their toned examples only fluster and confuse people who are newer to the hobby as the place them in "most toned" to "least toned" order. (It took me years to understand that toning is like how "Hispanic" isn't a race in the Census, it's an ethnicity; toning is an attribute, not part of the grade so you can have toning on an MS70, and it's still an MS70 -- not a perfect metaphor I admit, but I have yet to find a better one. :-) )

However, their examples of the circulated portion of the Sheldon Scale (1-58) are certainly much better and more indicative of what you will see.

Finally, I concur with clairhardesty, that Kennedy looks either very high AU or low MS.
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 Posted 06/06/2012  5:33 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add dsfreeworld to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
thanks for all of your input. I do like this coin and as a new "collector" (lord help my investment portfolio) I am happy to hold this and see its value 20 years from now.

and Steve, that metaphor is good
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