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  Looking under my magnifying glass you can see full steps on this penny! I've never sent anything to grade because I'm not sure on what is worth doing or how to, or who to use. Any help appreciated
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Pillar of the Community
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 It looks nice, but their are thousands of 1959 LMC that look this good or better. I saw a mint sealed bag of 1959 cents for sale this week. Look at the price on a coin like this and figure if it's not worth more than $150 you really don't want to spend the money to have it graded. Some people even say coins worth $250 or less aren't worth grading. ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!! 
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10/03/2019 5:57 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I need better pics to assign a proper grade
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Both obverse fields seem to have issues in this pic.
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Valued Member
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It's in the plastic still but with a naked eye it looks like it just came from the mint an hour ago. I'll take it out and try better shot
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We aren't trying to discourage you from looking for NGC or PCGS or even ANACS grading, but very common coins need to have VERY high grades to be worthy of the expense. In the case of the coin you show I'm sure it's 65, or maybe 66 Red, but a 66 Red isn't worth enough to qualify. A lovely example well worth a 2x2, but probably not a TPG. |
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Valued Member
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  Here are better pics outside the card. I don't know if full steps means anything for an LMC but this one has it |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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That's a proof, not a business strike. The spot on the reverse hurts it. Appears to have light abrasions or fingerprints in the obverse fields. PR-64 (worth about $4)
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Valued Member
United States
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Oh well. Back to the drawing board. I gave 50c for it so it's a small win
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It's a proof coin. Pretty unique  I'm going for PF-64 Edited by Nieuw
10/03/2019 9:17 pm
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Valued Member
United States
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So are proof coins less desirable or worth less than higher grade business strike coins? I get the impression that nobody is impressed with proof coins. I'm somewhat new to this. I've about given up on errors and focusing more on high grade coins.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Proof struck coins are generally more desirable than business struck coins, especially the modern silver proof ones
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10/04/2019 3:09 pm
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This is a Proof with enough marks to make the grading cost more than the coin is worth.
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