How on Earth could PCGS have graded this coin problem free?!!!

Joining the party late my feeling tpg grading standards have slid way down the last 10 years pcgs especially the last couple years I've seen more pure garbage in the shaded label pcgs slabs then any other especially stuff should be details. Like this nickel. Ngc lately I feel far more consistent I like the look of pcgs slabs better for what it's worth. I also notice lately cac seems to bean my ngc graded coins more often those and the coins I bought raw out of estate sales etc and sent to be graded. There's a lotta crap out there and they keep passing it cause they still get there fees regardless

 

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Agree with the shady-label observation. I'm glad most of my slabbed coins are from the late 1990s and still have some integrity to the grades on them. There has always been a challenge for the grading services in the AU58 to MS62 range with coins having spectacular good looks but also some high point contact that blemishes the luster when viewed with a loup. Sometimes they were called an MS62 and lots of folks complained, and sometimes they were called an AU58 and the submitter felt they were disparaged in the holder. But now days with a parade of coins in the upper grades that are off by 2 and 3 points, --well it totally discredits the whole grading premise.

 

As Idhair said the pics are huge , but so are those hits . Nickel is one of our harder coin metals and to get a gash like that took more than contact from another coin . They blew this one big time . Heck it looks like someone scratched it with a nail .

 

We like to criticize all the bidiots and kool-aid drinkers on E-Bay. Looks like they were smart enough on this one only to pay MS60 money.

 

But Paul , would you pay 60 money for it ? I really wouldn't and I've been known to overpay on a coin I like .

 

No, but I don't really like Liberty Nickels. If that coin is gonna reside in a problem free holder, it really deserves a net grade of MS60 rather than MS63. I'm just saying that the market does not value that coin as an MS63 despite PCGS's grade.