About the most boring design of the series, but I do like the badger! What do you think it graded? (click for huge images)
There are some lines that appear to be the result of cleaning, but I'm assuming that they are on the slab and not the coin. I'll go MS-65 just because the weak strike and the fingerprint holds me from going further.
I need to double check and see if the fingerprints are on the coin or the slab. I literally just got home, took the pics, and posted. Didn't examine the coins that arrived today yet.
The fingerprints are on the coin, fyi. Interestingly, they aren't visible unless the light is at 12 o'clock. I had to search for them.
Look more like a opussum than a badger. Which is a favorite snack down here in hillbillyville. 64, on that tasty vermin.
Probably been dipped a few times, enough to mute the luster a bit - that doesn't seem to hold the grading services back on commems, I'll go 64.
I would go with MS 66 ...yes it might have been dipped, but I don't see any major marks or hits (the fingerprint may have been missed by the graders since I didn't notice them until reading the other posts).
Ummm... So here you go guys/gals, the big reveal: Fingerprints I'm told, do not affect the technical grade of a coin, and it looks like CAC would agree.
