CoinTalk's BEST CENT GRADERS (from pics)-6

I'll only rank those who played in the last round.

Six players booked the 10 graded mark, so had another of thier lowest scoring grade dropped... Every 11th grade you get to drop your lowest.
BadThad:hail: - drops lowest 2
Mikenoodle:hail: - drops lowest 2
RLM's:hail: - drops lowest 2
Louie2bits:hail: - drops lowest
Duke:hail: - drops lowest 2
Abe:hail: - drops lowest 2

Rankings (points reflect average points off pcgs grades):
GOLD - Duke - 2.05 (can't keep this guy off the top of the dirt pile)
SILVER - Rlm's - 2.29 (still charging forward,,, watch out)
BRONZE - MPCUSA - 2.40

4th - LouieTwoBits - 2.46
5th - BadThad - 3.14
6th - Abe - 3.19
7th - Mikenoodle - 3.23
8th - Shoe - 3.58

And now....

Here is the next set: All are PCGS graded. Theme is color.. we won't score by it, but offer it up along with your grades anyway and lets see how we do. This will be the last of PCGS,, getting tired of them,,,, round 7 we'll move on to NGC and give everyone a fresh start on the gradings.. That said,, buckle down on these, results will define our PCGS grading champ.

 

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Two more:

 

and last two:

 

28-D MS-64 RD
38-D MS-64 RB
16-S AU-58 BN
2000 MS-64 RD <-----------<<<< Is that a Cheerios cent?
2005 MS-68 RD
1929 MS-65 RD

 

1928d AU55RD
1938d MS65RB
2000p MS68RB
1916s AU50BN
1929p AU50--think i am way off on this one
2005 MS68RD

Regards,
Stan

 

Wow bahabully, I'm impressed that you have so many slabbed Lincolns :thumb:

Thanks for taking the time to share your collection and allow us to hone our grading skills.

Here's my guesses for round 6:

1928 D - ms63
1938 D - ms65
1916 S - au58
2000 P - ms65
2005 P - ms67
1929 P - ms64

-LTB

 

Indeed....I've enjoyed just looking at them. There's some mighty nice coins in his collection!

28D - MS65
38D - MS65
16S - AU58 (I hate the TGP's on these, sometimes MS64 and sometimes AU)
2000 - MS67
1929 - MS64
2005 - MS68

 

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28-D MS-64 rb
38-D MS-66 rb
16-S AU-58 bn
2000 MS-66 rd
2005 MS-69
1929 MS-62

 

Bump...
Starting NGC's tomorrow... let's get those finals in....
Pending the regulars:
RLM's
MPCusa
Shoe
Abe

Speak'eth....

 

This is not my normal computer, but since you are ending it tomorrow, I will give it a try.

2005- 66 RD
1929- 65 RD
1916-S 64 BN
2000- 65 RD
1928-D 64RB
1938-D 66 RD

 

HAHAHAHA...sweet, way to call the 16-S man!

 

Ok already....LOL

28 - MS 64

38- MS 66

16- MS 60

29- MS 63

2000- MS 66

2005- MS 68

 

That 1916 S is tough...the reverse, especially on the O, the tips of the wheat stalks and the wheat seed pods all show signs of wear to me. Although I waffled between MS and AU a few times before I submitted my final guess.

But my grading comes more from guessing than experience

-LTB

 

I am not sure about this one, but I do not remember seeing any wear at home either. We will see!

 

I'd like to change my one to 2005 MS-67 but I can't find an edit.

 

Round 6 recap:

PCGS grades -
28D - MS64 RB
38D - MS65 RB
16S - MS62 BN
00 - MS67 RD
05 - MS67 RD
29 - MS64 RB


Opinions:
Theme was color, again. As observed in the last thread, you can see how diffused light really makes a RB coin appear RD. The area's to note are those somewhat grayish red or dirty red area's,, those are more brown in hand than in the pics.
Those who offered color did pretty well: Mikenoodle and RLM's tied for best,, Duke hit all of them, but only offered up 4 of 6 colors.

28D- Could get a RD designation in a new holder or more if submitted during a more lax pgcs grading cycle. They appear to have been tough back in the day. This is an old holder. Nice coin, you can see weakness in the RD on the cheek, ear, and left of head. Also some RD weakness on rev to the left of "C". I probably would have said 65.
38D - Beautiful toning in hand. I probably would have gone 65 or 66.
16S - Toning close to that of the ol' blue 13.. same look, less pronounced. But very very eye appealing and colorful when rolled under light in hand. Minimal wear, but tough to tell,,, it's in that AU-MS range as noted in the thread and hard to grade. I'd have gone 60 and split the middle. I congratulate those who took a stand in solid AU or solid MS range.
00 - Ugly, water spotty, good detail... must have been a birth year purchase I picked up a decade ago.. blech. But a good comparative sample to place by the 05 for an illustration of tpg variability,,, it's either variability, or they don't grade by ugly waterspots... who knows ?
05 - Pretty Satin finish.. what a 67 should look like imo.
29 - Another RB to illustrate how RD a RB coin can look under diffused light. Note the dirty look within the fields,, nice coin, and Rd'ish in hand, but Redder under this light. You have to look for these weak RD area's on coins under diffused light or you risk over grading the color.

Awards for this set of cents:
Best - A couple tied this round - 1.00 (BadThad & MPCUSA)
HA - Coinman - 6.17 - Welcome Coinman.

Now on to round 7.
We'll do four cents in round 7, and jump over to NGC for a couple rounds.

 

Awe shoot I got in a hurry and forgot to put the last 2 with color. 05 was easy a rd too lol

 

Thanks again Bahabully for doing these.

 

np... glad your enjoying it.