Not a contest but guess the grade!

Ok, I bought a slabbed lot on Ebay that said the value trends for $890,000,000 (or something close to that)for $69 as I could not handle the pressure. I needed to see what I was missing out on.

Here are some of the coins I recieved in my lot. Please take a shot at what you think the coins graded. I will share the actual grade on the slabs.

I am also sending the coins into NGC for crossover grading. Once they come back to me, I will post what NGC thinks.

 

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The 55 I would go low AU, maybe EF. It looks like there is a bit of wear there, could be wrong. The other one I would go Maybe high AU, slight chance borderline UNC. Probably wrong, but that is my opinion. Thanks for the guess the grade.

Phoenix

 

From what I can see I'd say
55 = MS63
56 = MS64

 

well... a F-12 says "Hair lines about washington's ear visible. Tiny feathers on eagle's breast faintly visible
VF says " Most hair details visible. wing feathers clear.
Those pic's were kinda hard to tell ......... Paul

 

I think that you meant to guess the grades that are on the original slabs, so:

1955 = MS67
1956D = MS68

Actual: 1955 = MS63 (because of the marks on the face & hair, and the stray mark in front of George's face.
1956D = MS64, just because, mostly the eye appeal, or lack thereof.
Good luck.

 

The coins were graded by UNC as:

1955 MS67
1956-D MS67

The pic I took of the 55 before I sent it out disappeared. Here is the 56-D though;

I will let you know what NGC says when I get them back.

The 55 has a scratch right in front of GW's nose. Without the scratch it would have a shot at MS65 in my opinion.

The 56-D has what appears to be a thumb print on it. It also has a small scratch behind GW's head. Probably not going to get MS62 out of it. May be body bagged.

Some others I got and am crossover grading:
a 1963 Roosie Dime That is graded MS67 FB. The reverse is weakly struck. I would be shocked if I got a FB when it comes back form NGC.
a 1956 Wheatie UNC graded MS67RD. There are bag marks..I would guess MS60.
and finally a 1955-D wheatie UNC graded MS67RD. This one might have a shot at the MS67 except there is something on the back near of one of the wheat ears. I will say net is MS64 if it doesn't get body bagged.

Pics of the wheaties in the next msg.

 

Here are the wheaties:

 

OOPS forgot the 56-D quarter original

 

This is just one man's opinion . Keep your money in your pocket that you are thinking about using to send these coins off to Ngc with. They aren't worth the grading fees , but if you have money to burn then by all means send them off.

 

What is the grading company?

 

Unfortunately, I agree with him. Those two dates are not particularly valuable in high grades and are only worth $50 each retail even in MS-66. I wouldn't waste the money on grading fees, as they will likely come back in lower grade holders. Just keep the coins as they are and enjoy them. :smile

 

http://www.unccoins.com/ :smile

 

Here is the update.....drum roll please:
NGC would not grade out either Quarter - Body Bag City
The Roosie did not grade FB MS62
The Wheaties - the 56 came back ms62 the 55D came back as ms64RD

I went through the exercise to verify what I already knew - look out for those no-name TPG's.

Freddypm

 

Tough lesson. My father did have one morgan dollar cross over to 64(was graded 67) into PCGS holder. After grading costs he could make a few bucks on it.

 

tough luck...what were the reasons given for the bb?

 

Yeah, to me they didn't seem cleaned or anything....

 

56D had the thumb print Environmental damage

55 Damaged Obverse - scratch....They called me about this one and did not charge me for it (good customer service in my book).

 

aha. nice of them not to charge you for the 55.

 

Thanks for the lesson. Knowledge is lessons learned. Thanks