http://www.ebay.com/itm/380617157442 I'm wondering how that got MS-64 with all of the marks EVERYWHERE on the obverse and reverse.
Maybe it's the holder? - or maybe this should be moved to the thread asking about when the TPGs get it wrong?
Something is wrong here , no way that coin can be a 64 if it looks like it does in the pics . Could be the photography as stranger things have happened . I'd love to see that slab and coin in hand . Could be a clerical error in the grade .
I suspect the coin was assigned that grade because of its rarity rating. Over-graded ? No doubt in my mind.
The slab sure looks odd. Is it possible that someone tampered with it and switched coins? Maybe this will help....... http://coins.about.com/od/coingrading/ig/Fake-PCGS-Slab-Diagnostics/ Chris
I sure hope its a really, really badly scratched slab. If not, that coin is a classic, old fashioned MS60, and all of the bad connotations that come with that grade. MS60 coins are what me see the light in US coins when I collected them, and moved to buying AU55-58 coins. How anyone could say that piece of crud is better than a nice AU58 is really beyond me.
I am not saying the coin isn't over-graded, but I think one of the problems is that the images are extremely over exposed. The contrast is showing off every tiny little detail that is most likely not seen in hand.
I suspect the coin is fine. It looks to me like the seller took a blurry picture and tried to sharpen it with an editing tool. That's exactly the effect you get if you overdo that tool.
very overgraded coin. i would not even give that coin a vg grade. it is just way too scatched up. must be a mechanical error by pcgs.
Does this actually happen? I was thinking of putting in a bid on the coin in the $30-$40 range based upon the *hope* that it was a photo imaging issue and not actually a scratched up coin. I just submitted one that, based upon this MS64, I would assume comes back a MS67.
