I watch Ebay for things I can snipe on and win at the last minute. Was watching this 1921 Peace because the pics were kind of fuzzy and it was hard to tell exactly what condition it was in. Looked nice but wasn't sure so decided to take a chance. Got it for $80.55 and was quite surprised there weren't higher bids. The pics aren't the best as it is late afternoon and I took the pics indoors with natural light through the window but I think I did pretty good on this one.
The definition on the pics was not real good and I thought it was in better shape than the pictures indicated it might be so I went for it. Not sure what it would grade at so I might send it to NGC with my next batch of coins to see what it comes back as.
Not too shabby, I'm guessing in the high XF to AU region. Now the big question, are the photos indicative of an obvious cleaning?
I am not sure about cleaning. I have some Morgans that came back AU details cleaned that for the life of me I can't see any mark on them or anything else that would indicate they had been cleaned. The luster looks good on this, especially on the reverse, so I'll just have to see what happens with it when the time comes. While it's nice to have a coin graded, sometimes I wonder what they are looking at when you look at grades of some slabbed coins. For all I know they grader had a bad day, a headache cause he didn't get laid that morning or whatever and just decided a coin was cleaned. I suggested to NGC that they should at least indicate why they thought a coin was cleaned if it didn't have apparent cleaning scratches all over it so the person getting the coin back would know why it got that grade. If it's apparent....like a Trade Dollar I have that is easy to tell it had been cleaned....then I can understand the grade saying that.
It's not that I don't believe you, but sometimes with the flat gray images of coins, it's tough to gauge whether the coin has indeed been cleaned. It may look so much better in hand. How does the luster look, does it have that cartwheel effect? Luster is also tough to photograph.
Well, I am not an expert and the pics aren't the best, especially the obverse which I took twice to try to get the right image of it. It looks good to me but what the heck do I know? lol I am an amateur at best.
