Posted 10/21/2024 1:57 pm
By TPG standards, that's a resounding YES.
Most of the European auction houses I deal with appear to weigh eye appeal significantly when they assign a grade. So a coin with wealky struck areas, multiple missing letters in the legends, etc. gets downgraded from whatever "technical" grade it might get by applying standards the TPGs use.
To complete the silliness scale for this type, here is another raw example from the same auction house they graded VF:
(c) Salon Numizmatyczny Mateusz Wojcicki
So we see on their scale the PCGS AU53 would likely not even make VF!
Most of the European auction houses I deal with appear to weigh eye appeal significantly when they assign a grade. So a coin with wealky struck areas, multiple missing letters in the legends, etc. gets downgraded from whatever "technical" grade it might get by applying standards the TPGs use.
To complete the silliness scale for this type, here is another raw example from the same auction house they graded VF:
(c) Salon Numizmatyczny Mateusz Wojcicki
So we see on their scale the PCGS AU53 would likely not even make VF!
Edited by tdziemia
10/21/2024 2:09 pm
10/21/2024 2:09 pm
