GTG: 1935 Connecticut Commem

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I'm not good with these types of coins but I said MS-64 based on the details I see. Very attractive coin.

 

I’ll jump on the MS64 bandwagon also. This is a nice example of my favorite commemorative!

 

Looks very lustrous, I say MS66

 

Nice coin! Looks free of distracting marks, and there's a lot of detail present on the reverse feathers as well. Hard to really look at the luster, but, I'll say MS-65.

 

'65

 

looks like some fine white lines here and there so I am going with AU 58 or details due to light cleaning, still a very nice coin and so you know I do have an eye appt. for new glasses so I am probably way off as usual lol lol

 

63

 

I say unc details

 

Looks like we're done.
Understandably, Details got 4 votes, followed by MS64 with 3 votes.
I bought this from GC, and it is one of my least favorite straight-graded coins. In hand you can tell it isn't a details coin, and I felt it should've been a 63. The reverse definitely holds it back from 64, but I don't think it should be a 62, but what do i know.

 

I see nothing that would make that coin a details coin. What makes anybody believe it is not straight graded?

 

Before looking at the end, I voted MS-62. There are many fine hairlines in the fields.

 

Like @johnmilton, folks saw the fine chatter on the reverse, and interpreted it as a cleaning is my guess. IMO, the obverse is nearly pristine, but the reverse is full of those lines, although there is no areas of interrupted luster. Takes away from the awesomeness of the eagle though, and I guess enough to warrant dropping it to 62.

I've thought of resubmitting it, but I doubt it would go to 63, and if it did, it wouldn't be worth it.

 

Well, they are entitled to their opinion. However, a MS 62 or 63 coin is not absent of marks. Contact marks, storage marks, and pre-mint release marks are common on sub gem MS coins. Were that not the case, every uncirculated coin would theoretically be either 69 or 70, and in the real world, that ain’t the way it rolls. I think it is a beautiful, undergraded coin, with some contact marks, but nothing that resembles circulated wear.

 

You really have to get to MS-64 and higher to have a "nice" or high grade Connneticut. These coins were sold to collectors who knew how to preserve them. I think that this piece was lightly cleaned at some point. That's how you get the hairlines.