Interesting grade on an error Indian Cent

Yes. Part way.

As for the grade, error coins wear differently from normally struck coins. The ribbon and lower hair curls are high points of the coin when normally struck. When over half of the coin suddenly has very low relief due to an indent, there is absolutely nothing the protect the high points from wear, so the coin will wear much faster than normal here, while not wearing at all in the indent. Since error coins are all unique, however, there is no way to standardize the amount of wear based on detail visible in a specific place. The reverse, however, is somewhat normal, so that's a better place to give the detail a grade, which seems solid XF from here, considering the double strike messes things up a bit. What bothers me the most is the green crud. That stuff has got to go.

 

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"Ummmm,...tastes like bamboo!" Then why eat bamboo, stick with popcorn! Geez!

 

Rick Snow has written of this, quite logically explaining how a coin can technically skip a few grades based upon its characteristics. Observable evidence is preferable to assumption or conjecture. JMHO of course.

 

Does it even matter? It’s an error coin, who cares about the assigned grade?

 

Mostly, people who like to hate grading services.

 

The grade really doesn't matter.

What matters is the extensive amount of verdigris covering both sides of the coin. I'm kinda surprised they slabbed that.

 

Yup. That would normally cause me to post a reaction that would be administratively deleted and met with a slapped hand.

 

Messy posted about what I was hinting at. Has nothing to do with assumption or conjecture and everything to do with error coins are just different. They start out struck up differently, they can wear differently, they are graded differently, the rules that apply to a normal version don't always apply when it's an error especially not on bigger errors like that.

 

You're more than welcome to see this as you do most everything else. The referenced was simply an interesting article well worth reading that addresses the similar.

 

Can someone tell me how the rim took a double hit. Denticles?

 

Their probably lost like i am

 

Haha.. same thought that I had!