2010-D NGC slabbed NOTE: If you don't vote in the poll, your vote will not be counted. I will be tied up next weekend, so I will not end this round until Wednesday the 30th.
There are like 7 bites. Don't get me wrong it is a very nice coin! Just wondering why on such a new coin there would be bites like that.
Horrible strike, weakness on both sides....I would have never paid to have that graded. On my scale I would have 65'd that coin, but NGC can be stupid so I bumped it.
Oh man,,, a curve, screw, knuckleball all in one !! Those moderns can get wildly variable grades, with a bias on the high side from what I have seen. I do see a nick here and there on this coin, so will assume it didn't grade out of the box high,, but from what I have seen given to these guys I have to call a +1. I'd call it a 67... so will play the max here.
These are not like wheat cents, they generally grade higher....it's a different scale altogether for the TPG's.
The rim nicks pretty much do not show in hand. (See also http://www.cointalk.com/t190680/) However, the nicks at E PLURIBUS probably make up for it. The spotting is much more obvious in the pictures than in hand. Great luster and strike. I have no idea how NGC balances luster and nicks/spotting, but apparently luster trumped all for this coin. They gave it a 66. My guess is that I would have called it a 65, but they don pay me for that.
We lost Animosity. Pretty much the only changes were that everyone shifted up a spot. Now that Leadfoot is back in the leqad, any guesses how long he can keep it? Top 10. Columns are rank, name, average, and number of guesses. Leadfoot 0.395 40 ldhair 0.429 23 mark_h 0.458 50 rzage 0.464 30 Duke Kavanaugh 0.478 25 BadThad 0.512 45 ericgo 0.526 21 bahabully 0.535 45 ddoomm1 0.593 29 jcakcoin 0.595 44
Yea, I had a feeling on this coin....they bump the moderns a lot because they're bright and shinny. LOL Lots of weakness in the strike, the design high points are not fully brought up. In my eyes, this coin is a 64/65....that's how I grade them. I have one I graded a 68, very well struck, nick-free, not many water spots..... they'd probably call it a 64. hahahahahaha
HA! Thanks for putting this coin in the mix, lots of guess all over the place and it appears to have helped me!