Show us your slabbed coins in Poor-1 and Fair-2 condition.

I've lately been making a collection of slabbed coins in Poor and Fair condition since they are not often submitted. Let me see your bummer coins that made it into slabs with number grades 1 or 2.

 

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I guess no one has a lowball set!

 

Maybe I should get this started. I have 1/2 dozen of these beauties

 

go for it

 

Totally. Love it. I wish I had some to share (sigh).

 

beauty, eh?

 

Imagine if there was an "S" mintmark on back of that "beauty"?

From my observation ANACS seems to grade Poor coins more than others even if the mintmark area is rubbed out to the degree one wouldn't know if there was or wasn't a mintmark present at one time. Here is my Poor-1 grade beauty in a PCGS holder.

 

Love these.

Can't get much lower than "1" can you?

 

POOR POOR 1! Lowest sheldon grade, you could certainly find worse, basal, etc but these aren't given sheldon numbers. And most at these levels end up with details/scratching/cleaning grades, rather tough to find them as PO-1.

Nice one there. I assume they use some sort of technical device that lets them analyze the directions of electron flow in the metal so they can see if a die had ever stamped a mint mark in an area, but at this low grade they might not be able to determine which mint mark. One assumes my 1901 quarter was submitted by someone hoping for the s mark. I snagged it cheap.

 

I assume you're kidding me with your first electron quote? So you won it cheaply? May I ask how much? What do you think I paid for my 1805?

 

I paid like $6 couldn't resist. The graders use these machines which have features/software doing much more than just magnification, through that I'm sure they can analyze striation patterns. But possibly only used in certain cases on very valuable coins.

 

Fascinating. I have some bummer Peace Dollars I'm going to send to ANACS now for sure.

 

Great thread. I love lowball coins!! Other PO01's that I don't have pictures of yet are:
1920 Pilgrim PCGS PO01
1964D Kennedy PCGS PO01
1976 Kennedy PCGS PO01

 

Amazing! I checked out your whole collection. Where did you come across so many low balls, especially silver commemoratives? A collection like that is certainly rare and valuable to a collector of that sort of thing.

I submitted a low ball Bay Bridge to SEGS. My guess is it comes back a G-6.

 

I've only got one real low grade coin and I paid money for it amazing to find one problem free in poor tho

 

I have and have had many low grade coins they were just not certified