I just got this in the mail today, with seller's photos attached below. The seller attributed it as Ryder 1-D, W-6190 R-3. Since I recently moved from Alabama to the Metro West Boston area, I just couldn't do without a Massachusetts cent. The TPG's seem to be a lot more lenient with Colonials, as I've seen a lot of really scudsy looking coins with supposedly problem free grades. So after a bit of haggling with the seller I pulled the trigger on this one, as I thought it was the best I could do with my champagne taste on a beer budget. The photos are a fairly accurate representation of how it looks in hand, with light porosity throughout but no planchet issues other than a small lamination on the rim. Also it has more detail remaining than most other VG examples that I've seen. Since I can't get JA's opinion with CAC no longer accepting Colonials, I would welcome your opinions on whether this coin would have gotten the bean.
I agree. By their definition, I'd say this qualifies for a green bean. If you bought it for VG08 money, you did very well.
Your question stimulated my curiosity so I went looking. Rather quickly I found these - all of which had the green CAC sticker. So it seems logical to me that if they would sticker those, given their corrosion problems, that they would have stickered your coin as well.
If CAC is no longer accepting colonials, then it's a moot point to attempt to say if they would have. Perhaps they're no longer accepting them because they didn't have a good sense of what should have and shouldn't have been beaned. Perhaps the marketplace didn't accept green beans on colonials.
