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Can't really see the problem from these photos; can you post larger images, cropped so each side of the coin is shown full-screen?
If you are talking about the small rim dent above the second A in AMERICA it doesn't look like a big problem.
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Sorry!! I always post good pictures, didn't notice the resolution there. Here are the full images!
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The chip doesn't seem like a big deal but I know how picky grading companies are. Will they label my coin as damaged? It is the only bad ding on the coin!
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12/20/2016 11:46 pm
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Stuff like that usually gets overlooked by the TPGs. IMO, still grade-worthy.
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The rim ding should not effect the grade.
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I'm not positive, but it just looks like a small ding and could have possibly happened at the Mint or in a bag. I think it would be a big assumption to call it PMD. If I had it, I would get it graded. In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
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Thanks guys! Only other thing about the coin is that one guy told me the coin and very light adjustment marks. You can see them sort of right next to the left wing on the reverse. They are on the obverse as well but very hard to see unless in the right lighting. But as far as I'm concerned adjustment marks happen at the mint!
I think they are actually called roller marks...
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12/21/2016 12:32 am
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Adjustment marks are fine. The ding would render it a details coin.
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You really think it'd come back as Details? That's the thing I'm worried about!
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At least for $24 dollars, you did not get taken for a ride. Good buy overall.
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If the ding does not extend into the dentils, the TPGs will straight grade it. Further, adjustment marks were not used on silver planchets after 1807.
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You really think it'd come back as Details? That's the thing I'm worried about! Some people here are super picky and have the mindset that anything less than perfect for a grade is worthless. The TPGs are quite a bit more lenient. I have seen much worse in a problem-free slab (harsh cleanings, dents, gouges, scratches, etc.). I think it will slab at AU-58. |
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I have seen pieces with dings like that get grades on Mint State examples. The usual pattern is that they will get 1 or 2 points less. For example if the coin is an MS-63 otherwise, it will be graded MS-62. A piece that might have been MS-64 will come back MS-63 or 62.
I think that your coin might be just short of Unc., and I'm no sure what they will do if they decide that it is an AU.
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12/21/2016 08:58 am
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I think it will slab at AU-58.  Just enough apparent rub to Liberty's hair above her ear & to the eagle's breast to take it there. The rim ding looks to me to fall into the category of a bag mark, and I don't think it'd merit a "details" annotation. Colligo ergo sum
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If the 1902-S you are showing is the one you got for $24 then you got a great deal. I don't see a significant ding. I paid a lot more than that for my 1902-S. Maybe you can find a 1903-s and a 1904-S in the same condition for the same price. Then you would indeed be a lucky and smart man. My 04-S and 03-S look pretty shabby compared to the coin you got for $24. Go beyond EF and they get expensive and they made millions of them. I guess they got melted down in the higher grades.
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