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Whadaya' think? --Moved to the Modern US Coin Grading forum by the Staff.   |
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Pillar of the Community
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OK I'll give it a shot.
Tough to say by the small picture but
there does look to be white dots on both sides and
blemishes under "trust" so i'll go
proof 65
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Pillar of the Community
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Very nice assuming that issue in the field to the left of Jefferson is minor, I believe this is a Proof 68 Ultra Cameo. That chatter would hold it back from PF69 or PF70.
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Actually that mark is not even there. I think it is an issue with the lighting of my scanner This is my first pic post, and havent figured out how to enlarge the pic yet. Would it be the resize output option?
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I would recommend scanning a nickel at 900 DPI and producing closely cropped images like the ones I have included here. Even with the 90KB limit, these JPGs convey a lot of information. I would not want to try and grade your coin without better images. I have a set of masks that I made for all standard coin sizes that crop just a couple of pixels outside the rim to make it easy for me to crop and white fill the background so it uses almost no JPEG bytes.   Edited by clairhardesty
12/05/2010 3:38 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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PR68 Deep Cameo ( The rims are part of the coin too )
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Valued Member
United States
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PR69DCAM by either company
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Valued Member
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AWESOME! I only paid a dollar for this nickel. Think I might send it in for grading. What do you think?
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Pillar of the Community
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It'll probably cost as much to grade and slab as it is worth. The PCGS price guide puts the PR69 at $26 but the PR68 drops to $15, and those are retail prices of PCGS slabbed coins.
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Point taken clair. I dont want to spend double what the coin is worth, and dont plan on selling it soon, but I want that slab. Guess i'll just hold it for awhile since I don't have 30 bucks sittin around to spend on grading.
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About 90% of modern proofs grade PF69 or better, you can pick one up in a PCGS slab for under $10 in PF69 on ebay. The folks who do the bulf submission make there money off the 70's and sell the 69's off cheap. I buy one of each every year and keep a graded set going. It makes a nice set and is very inexpensive to do in PF69. |
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Agree don't waste your money getting this slabbed unless you have someone who can review it under a microscope and tell you it has 70 potential
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Thanks for all your input. I wont have it slabbed.
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Posted 12/04/2010 12:33 pm
