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Moderator
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Bought in 2005, it's my wifes coin. I advised her to buy it as I figured with the small mintage, could be a sleeper. I took these coin photos at the bank. Not the greatest photos as it was done at the bank under portable LED lighting. There is some cartwheel luster still evident on the coin. Any scratches are on the plastic. https://ibb.co/RY8gGTy]  [/url]  https://imgbb.com/]upload a pic[/url] swcoin.ecrater.com
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7620 Posts |
Lightly cleaned VF Details to these old eyes of mine. I hope I'm wrong. I hope it straight graded but I don't feel warm and fuzzy about it.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
25215 Posts |
How about VF30?
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3848 Posts |
Definitely VF Cleaned
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 United States
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Like I said. At my bank, under stupid lighting I probably should have not posted this until it was shown under better lighting. It is actually a luster evident coin for the grade. [URL="https://ibb.co/dj6qgmy]  [/url] swcoin.ecrater.com
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7620 Posts |
Glad it straight graded! I was really concerned about it. Pictures sure pointed towards a light cleaning. It is very hard to push this coin into XF territory due to the huge price difference between VF and XF. Unless the coin is solid for the grade of XF is not gonna happen at the big 3 grading services. This is one of those coins that I think the graders have the coin in one hand and the Graysheet in the other hand and are torn about what to do as they look at the numbers. I actually took a similar 27-S and sent off to PCI a very long time ago to see how they would grade it. I got it back as an XF40 so I was a happy camper and ended up selling it online in the early days of ebay. It's just kinda funny how coins like this get treated in the marketplace. Still, it is a nice coin and I wouldn't be disappointed if it were mine! Your wife made a nice purchase! |
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United States
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Nice coin. Suggest you should allow more than 4 hours in the middle of the night for folks to offer opinions before you reveal the grade. I'm going with PCGS VF35 straight graded.  Take a look at my other hobby ... http://www.jk-dk.art |
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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please wait at least 24hr prior to showing.
looks like a weak struck obv at VF35. rev looks VF30. I guess the obv helped her get a bump
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10982 Posts |
I would have guessed cleaned with VF Details. I hope you got a good price.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4469 Posts |
The coin has a market acceptable cleaning. I am seeing hairlines on the reverse and around ERTY on obverse.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I'm not getting an obverse pic for some reason, but the reverse sure looks cleaned here.
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United States
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please wait at least 24hr prior to showing. I usually do. Jumped the gun on this one :-) swcoin.ecrater.com
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Valued Member
United States
485 Posts |
I would've gone with VF-details (cleaned).
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
94367 Posts |
You obviously did well, congrats!
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