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Valued Member
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Edited by PlatinumDuck
11/12/2014 10:29 pm
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Canada
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Au+ but the glare is hiding the detail and fields.
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Canada
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au55 or 58, maybe an ms62 on a very lucky day.
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Yeah.. could reach MS but, I'll say AU58 nice coin..  |
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Very Nice AU-58 |
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Australia
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I think AU58 as well, but try a different angle of elevation of lighting, perhaps from a different direction also; the grading may go higher.
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Well I will be the low grade here I think its a beauty but I'm at EF 45 and that might be high you can see some wear in the cloak and also in the facial features. The luster might only be the lighting
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I agree with doubleeagle, high AU possibly MS, all the jewels of the ermine (lowest) band of the crown are quite evident. These are the first points to wear as well as the most likely to be faint on a weakly struck coin.
Nice one IMO PlatinumDuck!
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Ok, I added some pics with different lighting in the OP. Thanks for you thoughts and opinions. It really helps me know what I should be looking for as far as grading goes and I appreciate it.
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I'm thinking au55 to au58 is a tad too low.
I'm leaning towards ms60 to ms62.
Someone earlier posted an EF grade...I just don't see how that could be.
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Edited by doubleeagle59
11/13/2014 10:35 am
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@doubleeagle59-
On my coin it seems to me that the most obvious area that shows wear is just to the right of the ear in the beard area. There could be other light wear spots, but I don't see anything that stands out to me. The beard area is confusing to me because it doesn't seem really well defined in the first place. The ear looks just as good as what you posted and and I don't see any major difference in the crowns or in the bow on the shoulder. Obviously I could be wrong on any of that, but that it just what I can see with the coin in hand. Just to be on the safe side I would probably say there is more wear on my coin than yours, but not a large amount of different. Thanks for posting a comparison photo. What grade is that coin?
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PlDuck....
I do not own the coin that I posted.
I actually think your coin is better than the one I posted because your coin has much better surfaces.
I'm not one to nit pick wear on high points of a coin because I believe the condition of the surfaces of a coin determine its grade, but if we're so discussing this then the coin I posted, has slightly more wear (on the crown pearls and the shoulder area) than yours.
The difference in the two however, is very slight and I believe the grades of both would be very close together (yours still slightly better).
I would grade yours low range of an au58 to a high range of ms62.
The one I posted a low of au53 to a high of ms60.
Edited by doubleeagle59
11/13/2014 12:05 am
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@ double. Please remove the pic you posted you did not ask permission did you ? so much for copywrite stuff. And by the way you are 100 % wrong that coin was certified much higher that this Newfoundland coin. In hand its an absolute beauty so please remove it
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Further more you cannot compare Newf. strikes to the Canadian series . not the same at all
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Posted 11/12/2014 4:53 pm
