1870 CC Seated Dollar

You cant grade seated dollars and seated halves the same. Not even close!

 

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Correct. SLDs and SLHs have different grading standards.

 

Wear isn't wear? Strike isn't strike?

 

The design and high points and normal wear patterns differ, right? Compare the luster between the two, as well, (granted the pics are limited).

 

Aren't they always? My constant gripe and why I hadn't invested, 'til just now, in coin photography equipment.

 

Since I'm just getting into it now, I'm will NOT be satisfied with single stills. I'm going to go the whole nine yards and make motion gifs.

 

They are quite interesting at best, I'd rather see a still photo.

 

Well, I have to have one to even create the other. To me, I STILL have never seen even ONE adequate still photo of a coin. And that includes Heritage catalogs.

And it's why I have sworn off buying coins remotely. If I ain't holdin' it, I ain't buyin' it.

 

Even a gif requires the photographer to actually present the luster, and contact marks in each of his stills. I just haven't seen a benefit to them yet.

 

C-B-D, does Carson City Seated coinage as a class differ in strike from their P, S and O mint counterparts? I vaguely remember reading once about this, the argument being the equipment used was different, more primitive. (Don't quite remember, maybe I am wrong.

 

That... I do not know.

 

Best of luck to you. I have never seen a motion gif of a coin that was worth a darn and COMPLETLY useless as far as grading went. Maybe you can do a better job.

 

these are generally lightly struck on the shield/ribbon which lends to under-grading.

 

Yes, I remember it had something to do with striking weakness on some elements of the obverse. Thanks for confirming.