Posted 11/28/2017 12:24 pm
It's the perfect hit, bet that I would lift right off with little effort. If you look at the scratch that's under the e it parallels the damaged i. Part of the damage sequence? Nice album coin. WAY to many hits for an AU grade. Keep looking you'll find um. The next advice is not mine but from people like Q. David Bowers and other people that have been or are PROFESSIONAL Graders. They caution against the use of to high of power when inspecting and Grading coins. My Tip: only collect the errors you can see with 5X or less magnification. Only use high power (anything above 10X) when further identifying the problems you have found, not to find the problems. Otherwise you spend all your time looking at microscopic little tiny itty bitty scratches and shadows and all you see is errors that aren't there. Spend that time roll hunting or coin star groping, or change dish searching. You'll find more errors that way then continuing to look at the same coins for hours. This coin would have taken about 2 minutes of my time to pull from circ, identify any major points, grade, put in 2X2 and put in storage or in the sell pile. DONE!
Perfect! And I do really like that coin for me the color and surface are JUST how I like um.
