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United States
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Would like to hear your opinions.
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Canada
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Probably Capped Bust Coinage, namely Dimes and Half-Dimes. Due to various amount of strike weakness and worn dies it is hard to distinguish a weakly-struck EF from a strong-struck VF.
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United States
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If one considers the gold $2.50 and $5.00 Indians "classics" then that's what gets my vote.
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United States
3540 Posts |
Buffalo nickels - every date and every mint has their own unique grading. Not a classic coin, but teens and twenties wheat cents are in the same category. Walking Liberty halves are tough as well. As zxcccxz said, capped bust are treated individually as well.
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United States
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For me it is Vf-AU bust coins and any classic gold.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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 with jimbucks. I always have to cop out and go into PCGS Photograde, to help make up my mind when we are invited to grade an example of a BLP Quarter or Half Eagle, from posted pictures, here in the CCF. That is about the only coin design where I have to do this. I feel reasonably confident in grading just about all other coins, including World coins from all centuries and ancients. Ancients are really a different grading discipline altogether. |
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Korea, Republic Of
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Indian quarter and half eagles. The incuse design makes it a real challenge grading them for me.
Also the Capped Bust coinage, especially halves. Weak/varying strike makes grading relatively difficult.
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United States
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Come on, people. Colonials. No contest.
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United States
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I'm going with early nickel coins: Shield nickels and 3 Cent Nickels. The hardness of the metal caused such quick Die Deterioration that even freshly struck coins appeared with die cracks, uneven strikes, and edge Cuds. IMO, it's tough to determine strike weakness versus wear in many cases. |
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United States
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A lot of them I find difficult to grade have already been mentioned. I have trouble grading Peace dollars. Also differentiating between strike weakness and wear on Morgan dollars. Gold dollars and silver trimes are also hard to grade for me. -MV |
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United States
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I also find the silver trimes difficult to grade. Though not a series, I think much of the U.S coinage from the late 18th to early 19th century are tricky given how much they can vary in quality and eye appeal even among those of the same grade and/or die pair.
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United States
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Standing liberties especially in lower grades before VF. I have a hard time distinguishing G, VG, from Fine
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07/29/2014 05:24 am
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I consider myself a lousy grader of coins so I just take whatever is on a 2x2 at coin shows as what they are. Other than that I just can't imagine how anyone could grade a Large Cent. With those I'd go good, bad and ugly.
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United States
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Large Cent. With those I'd go good, bad and ugly LOL Carl, and you're not even looking at ebay. That's where the ugly gets real ugly. |
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Come on, people. Colonials. No contest. This! Poor manufacturing....bad planchets....overstrikes...oy vey ist mir! |
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