I took some better pictures because when I put it on the scanner it made it look like there was a dark area on the stairs. Should I send this in for grading??? All pics are the same coin just some don't show the slight toning.
I will go along with that, but I would like to see photos with better lighting and not at an angle before I commit to a grade assessment.
Yeah I need to get a set up for better lighting that's the best I could get right now. I was just wondering if it would be worth spending the money to get it graded.
Here is a 1939-D Rev of 38 NGC MS67 for comparison purposes. It is just too hard to see the surfaces of your coin from those photos. Let us know how it looks compared to the coin above.
I'll be honest. I'm having a hard time telling because of the toning on the pic you posted. it is close but apparently not a MS67. Here are some pics with a different camera. That is as straight on as I can get the light and the camera.
I was just looking at some photo grading and it looks like mine falls some where between MS64 and MS65.
thanks everyone. I'm still stunned that I found this in my cash draw at work and paid 5 cents for it. now to decide if I'm going to spend the $30 to have it slabbed.
I think it's a 65 definitely not FS. rzage I have to ask: where the strike is weak in your opinion? Look at his coin and look at the strike of the NGC 67 that Paul posted. I see the same basic strike. Maybe it's just me.
It's not just you, everybody else sees it too. But that doesn't mean it isn't weak. Nickels are notorious for having a weak strike, particularly on the reverse where it is easiest to see. Even Paul's coin, although it has a better strike than most, it is still weakly struck as can be seen by the less than full detail on Monticello. This is what makes nickels (those with Monticello anyway) something of an anomaly among coins for rarely will you ever find a fully struck example, in any grade. But they can be found if you do enough searching and are patient enough. And being fully struck makes them eminently collectible in any grade. And they will have 100 times the rarity of any top pop.
