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Seller images, cropped by me, and PCGS TrueView. I'm wondering why it got the grade it did, so I'm curious what others say. It is SP.   |
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SP64
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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I feel I'm going to get a lesson here but I'm going to say SP66.
Looks great to me.
Cheers, Bill
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Looks like there's rolling lines on the planchet especially on the reverse, that's why I don't believe it's more than 64.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Looks good to me too: SP-66
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It looks like SP-65 to me.
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Thanks for replies so far. @DBM, I'm curious what "rolling lines on the planchet" are, as opposed to die polish.
There's not really any "trick question" involved here, but the responses so far indicate that I'm correct in being curious about the assigned grade.
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@kbbpll your reply leads me to believe that the assigned grade is much lower than SP64. Unbelievable! Can't wait for the reveal.  "Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
Edited by DBM
08/16/2020 4:18 pm
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your reply leads me to believe that the assigned grade is much lower than SP64. Agreed; I have a feeling they graded it SP-50 |
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I guess I waited long enough to reveal. SP62. So not horrendously under the lowest guess on here, SP64, but it still made me wonder. If you look up the cert# and download the TrueView yourself, it's better quality than the one I put through the Image Optimizer. I'm surprised no one said "cleaned", but maybe when I said "SP" originally, everyone took that to mean straight-graded. Which it is. I bought the Cook specimen a year ago, knowing it was graded SP, UNC Details Cleaned. I'd wanted one since I was a kid, so it was a 60th birthday present. Since then, I've looked at every image of George VI specimen 50c I can find. I have pondered the possibility that their "cleaned" designation on mine is in error - that they mistook die polish for cleaning. A large number of them are filled with die polish lines, even SP67 examples. So as far as "roller lines", I'm not sure if that's a factor when grading. There are also a lot of struck-through little bits of whatever they polish the dies and/or planchets with. Mine under a scope has two that are retained struck-through - the little bits of wire brush are embedded in the coin. As far as the SP62, I was expecting at the grade that it would have a lot of chatter from mishandling. All I can see is what looks like a couple light scratches through the hair and perhaps the cheek. I guess we'd have to see it in hand to really know. Another interesting observation with these is that mine is clearly concave on the obverse and convex on the reverse. Similar to the concave/convex designations for the 1948 specimens. It seems like the 1947 ML CR might all be concave, so maybe that's why it isn't noted anywhere. Thanks for the replies and putting up with this obsession of mine. :)  Edited by kbbpll
08/16/2020 7:45 pm
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 Looks a lot better than 62 in all the pics you posted. "Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Sometimes you have to consider the fact , that the TPG is not correct . Wait ! No that never happens ! ( Sarc intended) |
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Posted 08/15/2020 1:25 pm
