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Here is my wife's FREE PCGS NP Quarter, 2011-P Glacier... My photo's stink, but try and guess the grade

 

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I'm going to go with MS-65 (seems popular even though personally I'd give it a MS63 Reverse, MS62 Obv...
Still waiting on mine to come in, but i was late joining the party, so we'll see what comes in.
I wish they had done a special slab for these like "Registration Promotion" similar to the "First Strike". If anyone is interested in offloading theirs I'd gladly buy them...

 

MS63, Erik.

 

There is one "2011-P PCGS MS65 Glacier NP" that after 34 days arrived into Israel.

Reverse got a small batch of milk spots, rim got a dent. Obverse got elongated milk spots traces, couple of very visible deep hairlines, very small scratch on cheek. Not sure there is point posting more photos, there are plenty already. Was quite surprised they shipped internationally, was sure its for US addresses only.

 

I took some pictures, you can decide for yourself. The grade M63 refers to German Stempelglanz, which the coin in question isn't. The entire surface on the obverse is riddled with scratches of different magnitude, and at every angle possible you will find something new.

 

My Daughter got a MS63 sent to her :rollling:

 

..wow, that is a dog-ugly coin with milk spots and all bagged-up; Mint State none the less though and over-graded like most of these were. Looks like a MS61 or MS62 to me

 

Maybe PCGS is reading this thread and is at least starting to grade these coins closer to what they should be graded.

 

No serious German collector will continue to view this coin as mintstate, and where it financially matters will stay away! And this grading is not the only bad one I've seen lately.

The collectors that accept the grades assigned by the TPGs, without questioning it at each buy and don't make their own assessments will lose out in the long run. The German/European market is new for the TPGs and must first be won, as of now most numismatists of name (Franquinet, Lanz...) don't give them much credit, actually consider them to be borderline incompetent. I've recently visited a German collector to get a better understanding how they grade coins, and among good examples of fittingly graded coin, this dealer had an entire box of misattributions/misgradings and even misauthentications (slabbed fakes). This promo didn't help to consolidate their point at all, the grade for the coin is inconsistent in itself.

This slab is a good piece of reference for future conversations with fellow collectors.

 

I respect your opinion and your Homeland of Germany. I don't own any German coins, but I do own (collect) many German/Austrian firearms both pre-WW2 and modern; and I must say, your Country has produced some of the best firearms that could be made by human hands. I hold the utmost respect for your Country ands its people for that type of innovation and engineering.

 

Try this one too !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t6O7VbK52E

 

Weird. It doesn't look so bad with the naked eye... nor did I notice it look like this when it first came in the mail.

 

It's not as bad as others.

 

I posted something in the Wanted section, but if anyone wants to trade their MS-65 slab, I'm interested. Send me a PM.

 

I got my amazing...wait for it...MS62 Glacier today in the mail. Poor old Georgie's face looks like it went through a meat grinder. Gotta say, it doesn't get me real excited about collecting slabs or slabbing any of my coins. Oh well, at least it's worth a quarter.

 

Still have not got mine. Would be my first slabbed coin and hope it comes soon.

 

rocky - it's my first one as well and most likely my last. The holders are nice but I couldn't care less about the grading. I thought that might change when I got this quarter but I was wholely underwhelmed. My dad ordered one the same day I did and he got his in the mail today too. He is going to call me later and tell me what he got. I'm interested to see what he got.

 

I have never been interested in a slabbed coin, and I am with you they really don't spark an interest with me. I just wanted a free slabbed coin for fun.

 

It's a good baseline to know where a coin might be. I now know that 99% of the ATB quarters I pull from circulation are graded higher than MS62

 

Mine arrived today, 2011 D Glacier ms-65 that looks pretty good compared to some that have been posted. (will post pic later)

I'm going to send it to NGC with my next batch.

Should I crack it opened before I ship? or send it slabbed?