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Pillar of the Community
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Finally getting around to posting this. Let me know how bad it is!   P.S. If the obverse is too blurry I'll take another shot. I'm just going through a lot of photo's on the camera. |
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Pillar of the Community
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VG 8 and I think I'm being nice.
Am I right in saying the missing leg is from an extremely overpolished die?
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Pillar of the Community
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Yea this is a known error coin and you did nail it on the head.
I too think you are being nice. I don't think it's G4, but I'm not 100% sold on VG8. I keep telling myself it's G6, but I'd love to think it could make VG8
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Rest in Peace
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I'd go VG. vanbroj started another thread in which he is looking for a G example. In doing some research, certified G-4 examples are extremely scarce, and G-6s are uncommon too.
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Pillar of the Community
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That's probably because it's not worth certifying lol!
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That's probably because it's not worth certifying lol! It's still a $500 coin. |
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No I'm well aware of that, but compared to the other grades. I'm just looking at it like this - if it's almost technically as low as it can go on the grading scale, I'm not slabbing it (that's different if it's a 1916-D merc or something). I'm going to toss it in an album or 2x2 because the $40 or whatever the cost of getting it slabbed would take about 8-10% of the coins value away.
And I guess I should explain myself on taking the value away. That's taking $40 off of the top of the coin if I were to sell. Call it overhead costs if you will. But if I can sell it raw for $450 and slabbed for $500 - well it's not worth all my time to get it slabbed. Hopefully I'm making sense? Probably not
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I think you are making sense. Why waste your money when you are only going to sell it for a couple dollars more?
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Rest in Peace
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Well, it depends on the way it's sold imho. If you have a buyer in mind who is confident in grading, authenticating, and determining the problem status of this coin type; then I understand not wanting to slab it. If you want to auction it or offer it to a broad market, slabbing is essential to get the most out of a coin like this imho. Also, there is little chance for a buyer to later switch the coin and return, or return it saying it was "fake". In my mind though, in general, this is definitely a coin worth slabbing in any grade if trying to sell. Just my thoughts...:-)
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Pillar of the Community
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I do understand the entire argument of buying a coin like this slabbed only so that does make sense. I know when I buy my next one it will be slabbed, but that's because I'm going to get an AU or MS version of it.
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Pillar of the Community
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nice coin! I just cant get on the overpolished die band wagon. This and the 22 no d are not coins I would purchase. nonetheless good coin for you!
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Pillar of the Community
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If you not getting it slabbed it's VG all day long ;)
But really I wouldn't be shocked if it went VG8
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Are my eyes bad or is there a stub of a horn?
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Pillar of the Community
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In hand you can see the start of the horn.
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