Someone has got to explain this one to me... PCGS

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LOL, I just noticed that it is in a gold shield holder. I wonder what kind of reception it would receive over on CU?

 

I posted it as a guess the grade over there and 4 people got it right.

 

I think the submitter may have sent the coin in original mint packaging. The damage you are seeing is from the mint.

https://www.error-ref.com/feeder-ejector-scrapes/

 

But even if the damage occurred at the mint it shoud lessen the grade or be ungradeable as a clean grade.

 

Nobody’s perfect

 

Excuuuuuse me.....

 

Either way Mechanical, and lets face it damage should never get into a clean graded slab. What a pitiful reason to strait grade a coin.

 

Grader: hmmm… pretty nice obverse, MS65 on a good day… not sure what’s wrong with the reverse… third side… will be hidden by the prongs anyways… overall? solid MS66… next coin please…

;-)

 

I am still wondering how it grades above a low 61 at best. I also wonder how many of these they have graded.

 

maybe it was graded the day after the office Xmas party?

 

The obverse rim just to the left of the 2 not being struck up seems to indicate tapered planchet. Pity the tapering looks like damage on the reverse, though. If you were to weigh it, it would probably be light. I'm trying to look at the interior ends of the scrape marks to see how they're struck out in comparison to how they'd look if the coin were filed. The tapering isn't pretty, but it looks like it was there before the coin was struck.

 

One thing to remember is that PCGS had the coin, unecapsulated, in hand. Not a couple of photos.

If they had been concerned, there are tests they could have done, such as weight and microscopic examination.

If they were still unsure, they would have sent it to one of their experts such as @Fred Weinberg or Jon Sullivan.

 

But but supposing it happened in the Mint parking lot just before it left the Mint. It isn't inconceivable there could have been a hole in the bag and it dropped out, then they noticed it and picked it up and put it back. I mean it's possible. You can't prove it didn't happen. That'd make it a Mint error because it wasn't supposed to fall out of the bag and it did. It can't be post-Mint because it never left the Mint. That has to be the rationale of these PCGS graders. They're professionals, they probably seen this, too, probably many times, probably hundreds of times, probably thousands or even tens of thousands of times, how do we know? But I know I trust them. I'd think this is just post-Mint damage, but they'd know, they're smart, that's why we pay them, ain't it?