Show us your over graded slab coin(s)

PR65 yes, PR66 B.S.! ...It takes one heck of a coin for me to call it a 66.

 

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Based on those photos, your argument doesn't carry much weight.

Chris

 

Agree with Chris. For the sake of discussion and education, you should post better images so we can see why you think it's overgraded.

 

I have seen a few pcgs coins graded 70 that looked like someone sneezed on it before putting it in the slab.and toning can happen after slabing with either service.Sad but true all coins will tone with age it can't be stopped only slowed down

 

It's hard enough to tell a PR65 from a PR66 with good pictures. I'm not crazy about the apparent lack of color (is it white with hazy blotches?), but no other basis for judgment there.

 

This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.

 

IMO, Based on the fine hairlines on the cheek.

 

Your photos don't show it. Forgive me, but I don't know you well enough to trust your judgment.

By the way, hairlines would suggest cleaning. Right? Well, if that is the case, why should the coin be downgraded to PF65 instead of "Genuine" (Improperly Cleaned)?

Chris

 

No, hairlines does not always mean that the coin had been cleaned. I have seen original MS coins that were stored in Dansco albums with hairlines b/c the collector was not being careful with the sliding plastic strip.

 

If those get too bad, the coin gets a details grade. They're called album slide marks, although I'm sure many of you know that.

 

I don't buy your explanation. Now, you're talking about raw coins that were "hairlined" and then slabbed. You're talking in circles. Horsehockey!

Chris

 

You have never seen slabbed MS/PR coins with hairlines?

 

Easily a 65 better photos/in hand 66....

 

You're the one who is telling everyone it is so. You still haven't proved anything with the 1903 50c. Why don't you crack it out and give us some high resolution photos instead of the bad ones of the slab?

Chris

 

I did! IMHO... PR65 yes, PR66 no.

 

I don't see any hairlines. Does everyone except me see hairlines?

Chris

 

I see what I think was a poor move. Even if he were correct, he could have sold it for strong money in the rattler.

 

Nope, I don't see any hairlines, either. My guess is either the size and quality of the photos are insufficient to show them, or they only show up at a certain angle.

 

PCGS called this one MS64 and I think that is a generous. I still bought it because I liked it.

 

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