Posted 02/25/2017 01:00 am
The coin is terribly overgraded - just my opinion. There is a deep gouge on the obverse that crosses the eagle's wing goes over his beak and hits the legend. Parallel to that is some serious rim damage. The coin also appears to have been pressed between two pieces of metal (contact points are under the eagle's left wing and near the top opf the Cap near the 1 o'clock position. Pressing like this was often employed in an attempt to break a coin and prove it was German Silver. Quite frankly I would net grade the coin two full grades lower at about VF. This is a common date available in all grades and at this price I would pass it up.
The chops are the large type which is typical for the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Chops on a Portrait 8R typically are smaller and deeper since they were primarily used to detect Sheffield plate copies. The later chops were more normally identification marks and were not always deeply set.
The chops are the large type which is typical for the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Chops on a Portrait 8R typically are smaller and deeper since they were primarily used to detect Sheffield plate copies. The later chops were more normally identification marks and were not always deeply set.
