These are some dimes from my collection that I am proud to own. I love the toning, specially on the the Rosies, which by the way came as a roll with each end coin being the only toned coins of the roll. The rest of the roll is a BU as they get. Please give me your grading opinions as I will most likely never have a grading service do it for me. Thanks.
Walter: I agree, beautiful coins! Great toning, and if you send them to NGC they'll probably say AT! Grades? I give up, too high in the unc category. You have to remember that I am old school, when everything was : MS-60 (unc, but gaggy or not attractive) MS-63 (hey, nice coin! but not great) MS-65 (WOW! Hey I WANT that!) Those were the only 3 grades that we used, and now(?) I can't do a 63 vs a 64. Still, I like the pieces. :thumb:
I have to agree with you on the grading. I've only been collecting for a few years but I've been studing grading BU and proof coins religiously and I've learned this much, it will take many more years before I can confidently grade anything higher then a (65). My picks aren't that great compared to having the coins in hand. But eventhough I've bought some PCGS and NGC slabbed coins for MS and PR 65 and 65+ examples, I still have not reached the point where I want pay these TPG's for the pleasure of their subjective grading of my raw coins. Besides I hate not being able to remove the coins form the slab. Thanks for the feedback. And most of all Happy New Year!
I"ve never like Roosevelt dimes but those are at least MS64 or 5 or up there somewhere. Now with Mercury Dimes, they are my favorite coin and I sure wish I had that one. Haven't seen to many toned like that though. So many are cleaned as soon as they start to tone. My question is you showed the reverse of the Merc turned almost 90degrees. Is that a rotated reverse or just the way you photographed the coin?
I turned the Merc so that you could see the split bands. I was having lighting problems when I was taking pictures. The tone on the Merc is so much more dynamic in hand. It truely is one of my favorites, outside the fact that it's my mother birth year as well. The mylar on the flip is causing me trouble picture taking problems as well, and I'm out of 2X2 flips at the moment.
Purrrrrrty :eat: The Merc - I'd say 64 First Rosie - 64. The reverse is too weak to go higher. Second Rosie - 65.
Thanks for all the grading feedback. Being a novice at grading I'm glad to hear that my opinions where very close to what everyone has said. I'm going to order some airtites for these and get them in one of my custom displays.
