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Last year, I bought a box of 1994 50-cent mint rolls, directly shipped from the Winnipeg mint. The rolls were white paper-wrapped, and I even sold a few on ebay. I opened the rest of the rolls myself, because I love searching BU rolls. Most coins were very baggy, but then this gem pops out... Probably the nicest roll find I have ever done. I sent the coin to PCGS and just recently got it back... To me, this is a 'Home Run', especially knowing this series and how hard it is to find real gems givens the size of the coin and hardness of the pure nickel.     "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
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the rims look pretty dinged up,
doesn't that count against grade? for 67 shouldn't it be perfect?
(asking because I want to learn - not to be critical)
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I have the same question.
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Think in US grading standards, and the original intent of the Sheldon Scale... MS-70 is perfect... MS-67 is not...
"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
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Wow!
With such great strike quality and full lustre,I hardly noticed the rims.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Pillar of the Community
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 I hit a Grand Slam this week too! Three weeks ago I purchased a RAW Canada, 1908 dime from a seller who sold it to me as an assumed MS-63 grade for $550.00 Can$. After receiving the coin I was floored. Off to I.C.C.S. it went on a one week turnaround, arriving back to me last Friday. It was graded an MS-64, 8/8 Variety! (see Charlton Cat. page 128) Highest known grade for this Variety with a trend value of $3,000.00. Glenn  Edited by glenzy1
05/21/2013 06:52 am
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I've been through some mint rolls of 90's 50 cent coins.
High grade are rare.
Isn't there a '94 dot variety?
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I once hit a home run in slow pitch softball - a line drive up the gap that rolled all the way to the fence. My only home run, inside the park. Wait, you're talking about coins! Beautiful fifty cent piece! How it ever managed to stay like that after jostling around in a bin with its fellows is nothing short of miraculous! Does this count as a home run? 1874-H 25c with three upside-down V's for A's in CANADA. Paid eight bucks for it.  |
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Its funny that for ICCS MS65s are hard to pull off but in US MS66 and 67 are seen quite frequently. I think the 1994 is really nice and the rim damage is from being in the roll for years but the obverse and reverse are excellent.
Anyone think in 10 years that people will be pulling their coins out of ICCS flips and sending them to PCGS to get a more trended grade? Why keep an MS65 ICCS when you can get a higher grade with higher value with the other TPGs.
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 Jeyrey2000, it's actually being done all the time. I know many dealers and Collectors that buy average graded I.C.C.S. coins, cut them out of the holders and send them off to P.C.G.S They usually come back 5-20 points higher. Can you imagine what this would mean if you sent in an 1875 quarter originally in an I.C.C.S. graded VF-20? It would come back as P.C.G.S graded EF-40 and would trend at double the price! ebay # 220297657917 Glenn  Edited by glenzy1
05/21/2013 8:32 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Q: does a rim ding affect grade less or the same as a ding in the field ? Or device?
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glenzy's absolutely right.PCGS is famous for overgrading circulated Canadian coins.As long as there are collectors who will "buy the holder,not the coin",there's money to be made.Easier than hunting for gems or varieties.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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05/21/2013 11:00 am
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For the record, this coin first went to ICCS. It came back MS-67... regardless of the grading company - a nice coin is a nice coin!!
As for the rim, if you understand the process going on the striking chamber, then you know that the ejection of the coin is most detrimental to the rims.
This is the nicest nickel-composition 50-cent I have ever seen, head and shoulders above other ICCS MS-67 nickel 50-cent coins I have seen. There is almost a matte-like quality to the surfaces. It deserved a hard holder.
Thus, I figured it was worth the trip across the border - this is a coin for registry set players... currently the solo highest graded by PCGS.
"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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05/21/2013 11:46 am
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Canada
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I once bought an 1858 large cent for $500 thinking it was a nice AU coin. I sent it for grading, and it came back from ICCS as MS-62 Red and Brown. The icing on the cake is that it's the full, unbroken vine variety (which I'm led to believe is quite scarce). Conservatively, I probably doubled my money on that one.
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Pillar of the Community
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hoping to do the same with my recent NF cent purchase...i think I hit the home run with that one
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This is my best "home run". This was bought as a ch unc in an old soft flip and "rim to rim" with another ch unc 1919 LG cent. It's ICCS graded as ....SP 65.   That's what often keeps you in the game.......In this sport......knowledge is everything.... Edited by DEVLEC
05/21/2013 4:03 pm
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