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Had a couple PCGS slabs in need on reholdering but not enough to make it worth doing a submission. So have been scouring the countryside for PCGS slabs lately and came up with two more so guess it's time to start putting things together. This one looks more like a 65, but under the random rules of grading they use at PCGS it ended up with a 66 on the slab. It would never CAC but at least when they reholder it the grade can't be lowered. 1949-S Lincoln Wheat cent Doubled Die - DDO-001, FS-101     |
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Very Nice a big difference between FS and simply MS.
Trop, I know was a lot of RPM's for this year and your S sound very familiar for me, do you look for ? You are the best for this. .
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Thanks! And always nice to nail a good DDO-001 to boot. Silvio, yes, there are many RPMs. And if you look closely at this stage A mint mark you will see a very minor S/S east. It is not a listed RPM, nor probably should it be, as at some point things just are trivial.
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Ypy, I saw well LOL. Maybe you will list this RPM before re-slabbing?
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under the random rules of grading they use at PCGS I couldn't agree more - and its the primary reason I shifted my collecting focus to simpler times with no more PCGS submissions. Nice score @Bats. |
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Nice pickup TB. Haven't come across this one myself.
Just curious why you think this one only merits a 65?
Is it because of the small spots above ERTY and below UST?
When trying to determine grades I tend to blow everything up to 10x-20x and forget they are looking at it with only 5x magnification (and about 5 seconds to boot).
I could see this one as a 66 when I dial back the magnification.
ps. best of luck in the multiple-choice contest that has closed. In my estimation, you're the hands-on favorite and the prize is mouth-watering.
Words of encouragement are one of the major food groups.
We need to consume them regularly to thrive and grow.
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Mostly the coin looks more 65 to me in hand due to the marks across the face, which don't show up as much in the photos as they do in hand. Nothing deep, but a lot of small stuff and some surface rub. Also the bit below UST is a surface scrape with a thin bit continuing much of the way down the field. If I get a chance after work tonight I will do a close up of the face. It's a nice coin, just I have had pretty similar stuff come back as 65 in the last year. As for the contest, we shall see. All but number 2 were straightforward. That one has two choices that aren't actually things, as there is not really an error "struck through capped die" as what are the odds of a stray die getting struck through let alone one with a die cap on it, as well as "die adjustment error" which has been fully debunked as a thing yet is on the label of hundreds of coins that look just like the one in question. But the images do not let you see if the edge is reeded or thin, so just have to guess that with full rims the only available correct answer left was Struck Through Grease. But honestly with the symmetry of the weakness between the obverse and reverse the coin looks an awful lot like a weak strike "insufficient ram pressure" but that wasn't an option. Edited by tropicalbats
01/10/2023 09:29 am
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Thanks for your insight on the grade.
As for the contest, #2 & #5 were my stumbling blocks.
# 5, neither of the images looked incuse, which is probably due to my perception going whacky sometimes.
#2, it looked like it had weak or no rims, which led me down the path to it being a thin planchet.
Words of encouragement are one of the major food groups.
We need to consume them regularly to thrive and grow.
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