Help Me Grade This 1938-D WL

Just testing my lack of grading skills. Could you also please give me the reason for the grade you select. It seems to be a key date but not the best condition. Thanks!

 

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VG-10 Because it is a little better than the VG-8 in the grading guide.

 

I'd give her a VG-8 . Half the stripes show on her skirt . But I couldn't go higher because the drapery across her body is almost flat , but still visible on the sides .

 

Details - staple scratches across eagle and maybe smaller ones on liberty.

 

VG scratched, cleaned

 

IMHO...NUTS, you would be dragged out of the grading room and taken out to the woodshed and lectured about what is allowed on low grade coins and "micro-grading".

Now get back to your desk and start grading again

 

And that goes for you to. IMHO this coin will be straight graded

 

VG-8 Scratches and wear. No feathers on Eagle. Only 30% of lines in skirt show.

 

Those pics are magnified way larger than the 3-5 times that the tpgs use , and make the marks seem way larger than they are . I think it would straight grade .

 

Just looked up VG-8 in PCGS On Line Grading Guide. OP coin is a VG-8 there (so NOW I'm off to the woodshed). The PGCS VG-10 looks like a solid Fine according to the two grading books I consulted. Is it any wonder opinions are like buckshot?

 

I think VG8 too. Lighting may accentuate random shallow marks, I don't think I would call it "scratched/cleaned" without an in hand exam.

 

Vg 8 details. Scratched. And quite possibly cleaned need to see in hand

 

I'm in the VG-8 camp as well. I have a raw 1938-D I picked up from a junk silver box, that I am getting ready to send in for grading. I would grade it at a VG-10. I think it is just ever so slightly better than the one you put up.

 

I'll grade VG-8 as well. Everything which needs to be said, has been said.

 

What is a junior member? Because of age?

 

I wish.

 

Thanks to each of you for the feedback!

 

I'm going VG-8, as well. I think the ring ding and the few scratches are minor for the grade, and accentuated by the photo size. It would straight grade, for sure. Decent coin.

 

^^^ Ha! I meant rim ding.

 

Hard to tell from the pics, but those scratches across the eagle appear white/silver as if recent from a staple, not normal wear. If the coin looks like that in hand, I'd pass.