My PCGS crossover results are in!

It has pretty nice surfaces. I agree with the grade. Sorry, I had initially posted a too-small picture here, and didn't realize that because I was using my phone.

Cert pages are working now. The large cent is pop. 1/30 in that grade. I don't see a pop on the 3cN. Still waiting on the TrueViews. In my experience, those can lag behind a few days to even a week or so. As I recall, I actually received the coins from my last submission back in the mail before the TrueViews were posted. Must be a busy and/or understaffed crew at PCGS Photo.

 

Woohoo! TrueViews!

Hey, that almost rhymes.


https://www.pcgs.com/cert/37681958


https://www.pcgs.com/cert/37681959

 

I didn't see VF there in any event. I expected F12, really. Tickled with the F15 straight crossover.

That coin is not quite the DB cent I want. It is a compromise coin based on my budget. But I do like it and it does meet my basic standards.

Though it might not have straight-graded, I sometimes wish I had kept this one, which was a local detector find dug at a very early plantation site by one of my prolific relic hunting buddies.



Several of these S-166 cents with the distinctive reverse die break have been found in this area. I speculate that a keg of them must have been shipped to Savannah or more likely Darien, Georgia, by around 1800 or so. This one was found on St. Simons Island.

The photos were taken before any real conservation was done on the coin. Aside from basic soil removal, that is essentially what it looked like when it came out of the ground.

That fantastically preserved 1798 cent was not the only exciting discovery my friend made in that area, which had also once been the site of an old Spanish mission.

 

Yes. And PCGS plastic.

 

I like gold too, and many other things.

In PCGS plastic.

And I also like the consistency of having all my non-ancient stuff in PCGS plastic with TrueViews.

There are ten I have that are PCGS but not TrueViewed. I need to take advantage of the special and get those done.

 

I've sold three or four of the nice DB cents my pal Billy has dug. Sometimes it was on consignment and sometimes I acquired them from him and flipped them. There have been several nice ones. Almost all were 1798, and several were S-166. One was a 1798/7 (found with a contemporary counterfeit 1775 British halfpenny in the same hole). That one became the topic of a Coin World article. He's also dug an 1807 dime but that was a little rough.

 

No. That would have been the courteous thing to do, perhaps, but I never have. Maybe I will compile a list of my crackouts for them, if I think about it.

 

Oh, indeed. But even if the TPGs offered a bounty, I suspect relatively few people would.