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Very nice coins and yes I think the .50 is under graded.
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Thanks for the responses. Just to satisfy my curiosity, and to contribute to the forum, I'm gonna send them over to ICCS for a cross grade on all of them. Might be a good experiment and unless someone has done that recently, an update to inquiries about ICCS/PCGS crossover grading might be a good thing. I'll update back here but I suppose a separate post on the results would be good too.
Edited by TaeKenDo
03/29/2023 10:46 pm
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Nice coins Ken! Good luck at ICCS. MM
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I'd love to own that half! The toning is spectacular. I'd say very likely there are hairlines on the surface you can't see in the trueviews for the ones that graded lower than you expected, but PCGS does make mistakes too. Great result on the quarter for sure. Attractive set. I'd say enjoy it. :)
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@Levaril Maybe but wouldn't hairlines mean die polishing ? Because I don't think it ever left it's Orig case and I sent it in without removing the coins. I got the Ok from PCGS that I could do that. I was worried about damaging them while taking them out.
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When you said a plexi case tbh I assumed it was an aftermarket case. I'm not aware of any mint issued plexi cases (especially for specimens) but I'm also not an expert on specimen cases, so someone else can chime in here. If it was an aftermarket case then someone handled the coins at least once. Even at the mint someone had to handle them. Hairlines can happen for a variety of reasons and could be as simple as something rubbing over a surface by mistake. They are essentially just one or maybe a few lines faintly scratched into a surface of the coin by something interacting with the surface of the coin, and not necessarily harshly.
Die polish is a whole other subject and isn't something they will bring the grade down for. Die polish is typically obvious by the way it affects the fields and not the devices and is usually a whole bunch of lines all moving together across the fields regardless of devices in between, sometimes straight and sometimes curved. I'm probably not explaining that very well as I'm also not an expert on die polish! :)
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I could be wrong but I think the OP previously posted this set on the forum in the plexi case and it was indeed an aftermarket case.
''Buy the very best, stretch to buy it. It means if you can't afford to buy it, buy it anyway."
-Steven Duckor
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@Levaril I'm not an expert either. I still have these photos from the set.  |
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If it was not an original, someone took the time to have them printed. Not sure what that cost because they usually require a minimum. Not sure how many regular or specimen sets were issued that year but I read between 35-50 specimens only.
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I just thought of something. Given the toning which I think tends to stop or slow down when sealed in acrylic cases like this vs. the open air cases common with specimen sets. So maybe it was transferred at some point after the toning started to kick in either to control the toning or the case was damaged. Could be a few reasons that we'll probably never know.
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03/31/2023 12:27 am
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@Dollar 1935 Yeah, I think I posted it in the thread <Most Recent Canadian Coin purchases>.
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These capital plastic holders were(and still kind of are) a favorite alternative to the original specimen cases. A specimen box of the era would have been much less protective. The coins probably spent 20-30 years in the original case then got moved into the plastic before toning too dark..thank you former owner for that!
Feel free to call me Will.
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Very nice coins.
One thing I've learned is it's impossible to grade any coin from the TruViews.
Talk about an oxymoron!!
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Truly beautiful coins! Congratulations!!!
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