Another gem coin in a PCGS Slab.....I’m just gonna leave this here......

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1916-D-Mer...426442&hash=item214a772130:g:rs8AAOSwJr1bx-Lk


Just gonna leave this here for everybody to comment.

 

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I personally don’t have a problem with the assigned grade for that one.

 

The grade looks about right to me.

 

Is there something wrong with the coin that I'm not seeing?

 

The color and toning indicates environmental damage. Coin should’ve been bodybagged on that basis alone.

 

The grade is technically correct. But the coin looks like it was dipped in doo doo.

 

Right? This one has to be by far, the ugliest 16-D I have come across.

 

It's ugly, even for AG-3, but I don't see any damage.

 

The grade is OK. And just because its color is funky, that does not necessarily equate to environmental damage

 

I don’t see anything wrong with this, except being more dough than I would shell out.

 

The coin's surface is not eaten into. It is not environmentally damaged.

 

Environmental doo doo.

 

It looks like a low end example that has likely spent some time in an album or the like prior to being submitted.

If anything this is only a good example of why collectors shouldn't accept "market acceptable" as their own personal standard.

 

That coin looks like 70 miles of really bad, two-lane Louisiana bayou highway.

 

Looks about right for the grade

 

The coin is correct for the grade based solely on wear, but eye appeal is, quite literally, in the toilet.

 

916D10C, posted: "...This one has to be by far, the ugliest 16-D I have come across."



1916D10C, posted: "The color and toning indicates environmental damage. Coin should’ve been bodybagged on that basis alone."

Well. one out of two ain't bad! I've read somewhere that ALL TONING IS ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE!

Some ED is pretty and desirable and some ED is not. So IMO, the coin is graded correctly and it is also one of the ugliest dimes I've seen except for those that were both corroded and damaged.

 

ED doesn’t start until the coin’s surface is being eaten into. Toning is simply a silver sulfide layer on the coin.

 

And if you spend your time worrying about every ugly coin residing in straight plastic, let's just say you're going to be a very busy boy. Of course this also brings us back to my original point....

 

Omegaraptor, posted: "ED doesn’t start until the coin’s surface is being eaten into. Toning is simply a silver sulfide layer on the coin."

That will teach me to trust the chemists on CT and not to believe what I've read:

Silver sulfide is the most common corrosive film (ED) formed on silver.

While "toning" is often acceptable oxidation, tarnish is often used to describe unacceptible color. Tarnish is a chemical reaction on the surface of metal and causes a layer of corrosion.