Post Your Lowest Graded Problem-Free TPG Coin

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1853-PCGS-P...84?pt=Coins_US_Individual&hash=item233a14f088

This isn't my coin but I was intrigued when I came across it while browsing completed auctions. Is there really a market premium on lowball certified coins? I'm not sure if I would fork over 60 bucks for a coin in Poor condition that is worth no more than $20 in Good.

However, it is probably quite uncommon for a coin to survive so much circulation and not have anything else wrong with it other than wear. I wonder if TPG's are more lenient with damage and other problems for coins in Poor condition, or if they would assign a grade of "P01 Details". I also wonder what criteria CAC uses to accept or reject a coin in P01. How could something graded that low be "nice for the grade"?

By the way, I noticed that when you expand the PCGS price guide to show all the grades for Morgan dollars it actually has a column for P01 and the prices in it are higher than for G04...

 

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The PR-1 cent is uber-cool and yes, the 1836 Gobrecht is a PR10.

 

I bought that wreath cent when I was first getting serious again a few years ago was one of the first things I ever bought off ha I sent it in to cac recent cause why not and they beaned it only basil state coin I ever seen with a bean!

 

Only 400 of these have survived in all grades per Coin Facts. I like the slanted 55 and the big S mintmark.

 

PCGS 2 in 15 and 6 lower

 

I ask this out of ignorance:

Some of the lower graded coins have rim nicks and other problems. But they were deemed slab-grade worthy and not "body-bagged."

If one had an AU-problem coin that was "body-bagged slabbed" (with a rim nick or artificial toning, for example), would it be better to break the coin out, circulate it a little and get it slab-graded, but obviously with a lower grade?

Thanks in advance,

guy

 

Bah.... that is silver... try collecting a lowball series struck in pure nickel.

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/canadian-nickel-dollar-lowball-coins.218778/

 

Here is a closeup. No visible date but you can tell the year by the reverse.

 

Unless it was a 16

 

I've got a 17-s with no date in with my junk silver is got damage too

 

Wrong obverse diagnostics....I wish....

 

PR 1 BN. It's an $870 coin without the registry bump, right? I wonder if it would clear $1200 at the right auction.

 

Uh, yeah... where's the date?

 

I'd sure be happy if it did I got just shy of the first number in it is kinda cool having such a lowball in my collection as most of my coins are much higher grade. I want to upgrade it eventually tho

 

This is one of thirteen PCGS or NGC AU-50 graded coins in my collection. AU-50 is the lowest grade I have in a TPG holder.

 

AG 3 1882 CC from NGC
Just picked this up from another member.

 

In a problem free hold - just a little rough.

 

I think it would depend on the coin - but in most cases I would say no. It would take a lot of wear to get rid if a rim nick - rim bumps are there to say. And who is to say what is hiding under that artificial toning. I would say just get rid of the coin and get a problem free example - if they are affordable. Just my humble opinion.