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I'd like to get your opinion on the grade and condition of this Seated dime. I will post PCGS grade in a day or two. Thanks in advance!   |
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Fine -15 is my grade, but I imagine that PCGS graded it VF-20. The reverse looks to be a lot weaker, but that must be a reflection of die state issues. I don't know Carson City coins well, but I imagine that they used a die from a prior year.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I really can't see this going much higher than a F-12. No problems of any kind and doesn't look cleaned, either.
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Bedrock of the Community
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F-15 tops both sides considered.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Reverse is pretty weak, net F-12
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I'm thinking we'll be bummed by this one.
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Pillar of the Community
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I'd buy it at an F15 price, no idea what the result of the TPG's ten second glance was. +1 for the Gerry Fortin link from Meadowview! |
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IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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I think it might garner a F15.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Bedrock of the Community
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F12 with a much better obverse. The reverse looks VG to me.
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Thanks everyone for your feedback. You pretty much confirmed what I was thinking on this coin and the grade. This is a situation where I bought the coin and not the holder. PCGS graded this coin VG-10. I researched this date a lot and saw F-VF examples that looked much worse than this one.
I learned that '78-CC dimes used heavily polished reverse dies from '77. The reverses are frequently seen with this type of strike and weakness yet it has strong rim and denticles. I'm hoping PCGS just missed this. I'm expecting to get this coin early next week and will post about my impressions with it in hand.
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Posted 06/06/2017 4:33 pm
