Double Eagle 1927

This is the answer of my american friend and mentor

This is an odd one. I see no slide on the typical high points at all, yet on the sun (reverse)
and the rock beneath the foot (obverse) there is an unusual amount of friction.
To see this yet no slide on her face, well - I don't know what to make of it. If it were me I'd give
it an MS63.
In person it make look a little better or a little worse, I'm just not sure.

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Originally posted by nohope587

Why MS63? would not the fairly major gouge below the date and the seven plus nicks on the Eagle/rays put it in the MS60 range or am I just being to harsh?

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The fields have very little friction
There is only some slide on the eagle feathers
An MS 60 would have from two to any number of really mayor bagmarks
on the really intresting parts and probably rimdamage

In other words if you put a number of these coins in a linen bag and rattle them around the postal system for 500 miles what comes out would still be MS 60 by definition

So MS60 is mintstate but ugly

This coin just came back as an NGC MS 63
We were both agreeably surprised

Thanks for the education I found it very informative. I will try to adjust mey Very harsh views and moderate them a little when trying to grade.