PCGS grade accuracy?

Hope everyone's day is going well. Even though I've been collecting coins for a while now, I guess I'm still having trouble with grades. I know grading is subjective and even with PCGS, I've heard stories of people resubmitting coins and getting multiple different grades. But I'd like to get your guys opinion on one particular coin I submitted. What I am going to do is post pictures of three different coins PCGS graded, a 1917 SLQ Type 1, a 1917-S SLQ Type 1 and a 1917-S SLQ Type 2.

I'd like your guys opinion on what you think the lowest graded coin is, the middle graded and the highest graded(They all have different grades) Bonus if you can guess what grades each is. I'll post first pic, second pic and last pic or the obverse and reverse of each. After I get several responses I will then ask my question in regards to the coin I submitted to PCGS. Thanks.

 

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Your pictures are all just slightly blurry, enough to make accurate grading impossible. They all look like mostly attractive coins (the corrosion spot on the reverse of the middle one is a problem).

If you made me guess, I'd call them

17 TI - AU-58
17S TI - MS-62
17S TII - MS-64

But, with the blurriness of the pictures, these cannot be considered accurate guesses.

 

Thank you for responding. Sorry about the pics. Here are some more that hopefully are a bit clearer. And, I can tell you that you got one grade right and are close on the other two, so awesome job. See if these pictures help......

 

Since I'm guessing the PCGS grades, (and not giving my actual grade opinion )

1917 Type I - MS-62
1917-S Type I - MS-62
1917-S Type II - MS-64

 

Thanks. I'd be curious to hear what YOUR grade opinion is.

 

Before you wonder too much about the PCGS standard I'd like to ask if you've read them? The very little reading I've done along those lines has been very informative for me.

 

When you day "Read them" what are you referring to?

 

This is a good place to start:
https://www.pcgs.com/News/How-United-States-Coins-Are-Graded

 

Guesses based on the 2nd set of photos:

1917 Type I - MS-63 (FH?)
1917-S Type I - MS-63
1917-S Type II - MS-65

The designations are hard to discern from images, but I think the 1917 Type I has a shot at Full Head (FH).

 

Thank you.

 

I’ll say 62, 63 and 64 in that order.

 

I'll give one or two more people a chance to guess the grade, then I'll post a pic of them in the holders and what grades they are. AND THEN ask my question I originally had. Thanks everyone!

 

Yet many people that have actual experience with them can consistently be right on the grades or +/- 1. Plenty of people have a very good idea of how they grade and an understanding of it even if you don't

 

64
63
64

 

58
64
63

 

65, 64, 66

 

25 or 6 to four...........

 

Great, now it’s stuck in my head. Gonna getcha for that.