Ok this one did dent the budget this month and becomes my 2nd most expensive "detail" coin. But as some have noticed I have the habit of cherry-picking detail coins... Why? if that detail is not obvious they are often much finer examples of such a coin then I otherwise could ever afford. But my 1st rule of details coins is eye appeal and I think this one easily competes with anything in it's "grade" and at 1/2 the price lol... Anyhooo here you go my new pretty for my 19th century everyman type set ps added ngc pics
I'll go with VF with the reverse being a bit better. I'm not seeing a cleaning or anything to cause a detail grade.
Last set of photos shows reverse hairlines behind eagle's neck which makes me think VF details cleaned. Then again this is one of the less egregious "details" coins I've seen.
It looked nice to me. I see what people might say about the reverse. But to me it looked pretty original. I figured the other option was bent. There are a lot of nice looking dimes and half dimes that are just bent. It is one way to get a nice coin for details price.
I have a rare die marriage half dime in a NGC slab- Details/Bent. Took it to my local coin club meeting and showed it around and then put the slab flat on the table and said "Doesn't look bent to me" as I tried to rock the slab. Crickets.
I have a high graded, high priced early U.S. coin that is bent and straight graded. How did that happen? Was it too rare to fail? Maybe. Yea, I screw up now and then when the collector bug bites too hard.
It may be one of those things, when it's right in front of your face you miss a key thing. They looked at it so closely they didn't realize it was bent. Once it is in the holder, you might never tell.
