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Pillar of the Community
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Please post the anacs grade and the PCGS grade. Also what type of anacs holder it was in before you crossed it. Au-55 is my grade.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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First impression was a AU53 for me. It's a beauty.
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Pillar of the Community
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MikeF, that is what I normally do after I give it the customary 24 hours from OP.
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United States
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Old Small White ANACS gave her an AU55PCGS gave her an AU50She is now at CAC, where hopefully she will get beaned...possibly gold! Thanks for playing along! 
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06/28/2017 11:33 am
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Pillar of the Community
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I like it at AU53. You have an excellent chance to sticker as the coin is showing nice toning and luster in the protected areas.
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Pillar of the Community
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Old Small White ANACS gave her an AU55
PCGS gave her an AU50 Whoa. That PCGS grader was wrong, imo. |
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oih82w8: Ouch, I thought your 1853 A/R had a very decent shot at a green bean. In retrospect any thoughts on
why it did not pass?.
Edited by Everest
07/07/2017 12:54 am
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Pillar of the Community
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I am guessing that JA did not like the "tone" of the coin.  Edited by oih82w8
07/07/2017 08:53 am
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Pillar of the Community
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It appears harder to get a AU 50 to sticker. I have often thought that JA does not like the low end of the AU grades.
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Bedrock of the Community
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I agree that based on sharpness of the devices, the coin deserves a higher grade, but I can see how the obverse of the coin doesn't appear to have much luster. I can see some slight porosity beginning to set on that side. I think that it was these issues that dropped the grade to 50. The surface of the reverse looks better, is colorful and suggests that there may be more luster here. Clearly the better side of this coin. Having said that, I have seen some really ugly coins in AU55 holders that wouldn't be able to hold a candle to this one. Crackout and resubmit to NGC perhaps? Some people like to play TPG bingo. At the end of the day, I think you have a nice coin and it seems like you like it, which may be all that matters. How do folks know that JA graded this coin? 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.comEdited by numismatic student
07/07/2017 7:17 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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Even at AU-50, quite a beautiful example.
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