A sample slab from PCGS. The slab has the dings, not the coin. A 1964 Kennedy Half Dollar with the old green label. Certified only as MS. The coin is bright and lusterious.
LOL-I guess so but it wasn't intensional. I'm just now starting to get caught up and I think it will take years. I just opened a box that I bought a bunch of coins from 2012. All I did at that time was work at the post office, cut the grass (7 acres), take care of my antique shop, eat and sleep. If I bought something I just stacked the box somewhere and now I'm getting to them. I'm finding all sorts of neat coins and other things. New posts to follow soon.
Randy, I can't believe the amount of junk silver I've run across and at such low prices. I was buying junk silver dollars below $14.00 each. And they all look like good or very good coins.
They are the face up side so any display will have the obverse facing up. Anything that falls, rubs or touches that surface will cause damage.
The MS on that label may not indicate that it is Mint State. Back in the days of body bags (I don't know if this still hold true) when coins arrived they would be coded as either proofs or business strikes, and up until a grade was actually assigned they used MS to indicate a business strike. It had nothing to do with the grade. Many times people would send in circulated coins that had problems and they would come back in a body bag with that label that had MS on it and they would put them up on ebay, with the body bag label, claiming that PCGS certified it as Mint State, and point to the label as proof of their claim. Obviously circulated coins with a label that said MS but no grade.
I was wondering how that got a Ms with all those dings on the face? If Ms don't mean mint state in this case?
Firstly, bag marks aren't supposed to be taken as wear. Of course if you put a couple of bags of silver dollars on the floor of the train all the way from California to Philadelphia... Rock and Rollin and rubbing and clinking... Then you take them out of the bag and ask a numismatist to grade them, some would probably be called AU even though they technically are MS. Secondly this is a sample slab and it's about showing what a slab would look like at that point in time with inexpensive random coins not about actually grading the coin.