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Pillar of the Community
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Valued Member
Canada
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Either way, it reinforces the adage that you should ALWAYS buy the coin, not the holder...
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Bedrock of the Community
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Those are really crappy pictures
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Pillar of the Community
United States
844 Posts |
I agree, crappy pictures.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
4944 Posts |
Even if those are bad photos, the coin does not look very attractive.
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Moderator
 United States
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Undoubtedly unattractive, but it's simply not possible to hazard a grade guess based on those ludicrous images. For all we know, the coin's a 66 that has been downgraded for "ugly."
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Actually I can see quite clearly that that coin is not even an MS. The pics are not so bad as to not be able to see that. As much as I detest PCGS, I dont for a minute think that is the coin that was graded.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1903 Posts |
If you notice the radiating white fog coming from around the holder ring. Could this slab have been under water and the coin subsequently corroded?
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Moderator
United States
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I was just going to suggest, a damaged slab causing accelerated environmental damage. Too bad :-(
swcoin.ecrater.com
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Moderator
United States
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The photos are indeed not capable of judging for ourselves the grade of this coin ... and I tend as well to suspect the coin surfaces have 'turned bad' somehow in the holder.
David
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New Member
United States
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PCGS does make mistakes - I once sent them two type 2 1979 proof quarters, and had them slab one as type 2 and one as type 1. Just as an experiment to see if they knew what they did wrong, I cut the wrongly certified one out and sent it again and that time they got it right and called it type 2.
But this example looks pretty extreme. Bad pictures can hide a lot, but this coin is quite circulated! Look at the dirt around the lettering if you don't believe the worn down device.
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Pillar of the Community
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I am not sure what the "fogging" around the coin is but I think might have something to do with the manufacturing of the ring that holds the coin or the slabbing process. I have a coin slabbed by PCGS that has "fogging" similar to that I know for sure was not the result of improper storage because it was already like that when I received the coin back from PCGS. I can't say if the coin in ebay listing is overgraded since it could look very different in hand but the pictures are certainly not doing the coin any favors. Edited by D0ubl3Eagle
09/19/2012 11:57 pm
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Valued Member
United States
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It looks like a coin you'd find in a junk bin.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4132 Posts |
I think there might have been some contaminant on the coin when it was put in the holder, leading to the corrosion and the fogging of the holder.
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Valued Member
United States
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Wow, ugly coin for sure. Not a MS64, IMO.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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ugly and not appealing. Like I've mentioned, buy the coin not the holder, don't drink the PCGS Kool aid.
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Posted 09/19/2012 4:26 pm
