What Grades Would You Give These Two Coins??

1864 and 1883. Thanks B12

 

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One more thing. It looks like there's a doubled varietie on the words OF and AMERICA. If you look in the 2nd picture in the first post,you can definitely see something on the F and in this pic you can see the end of the M and the right leg of the R pretty good.I tryed to take a closer picture,but...here you go. What do you think it is? Thanks B12

 

1864 - damaged G-4.

1863 - Possibly VG-8, certainly no higher.

Doubling? I don't know anything about that stuff. Errors are not my thing.

 

Thanks Roy. B12

 

How about G6 and F10

Bone

 

AG Damaged....
VG

I can't see the DD but I would almost bet that its Longacre Doubling...no added value but something neat!

Speedy

 

Thanks for the grades guys. B12

 

AG3
VG10 max.

 

I agree with Speedy. What you are seeing is the remnants of Longacre Doubling, which is a feature of the die and not any type of minting error. As reference, here's a gold coin which exhibits the same feature:



And here's a IHC that shows the same thing (sorry for scratched holder):



There is generally no additional value to this feature, but it is neat...Mike

 

Thanks for the info. B12

 

Leadfoot, that is a fabulous IHC, thanks for sharing the photo!

 

You are most welcome & thank you for the kind words. Here are a few more shots of it:



Here are Pinnacle's shots of it:



Even these photos don't do this coin justice, IMHO. I'm going to have to crack this one out to photograph it well.

Take care...Mike

p.s. sorry for hijacking the thread.

 

Let me guess...a proof IHC...I have hunted one of them for about a year now but haven't seen one that comes up to the level I want...

Speedy

 

Speedy, Bingo -- NGC PF 64 RB. It's taken me a while to find one I've liked. Had to go to the big boys (Pinnacle) to find it. I've seen quite a few nice ones, but they always seem to be $1,000 and over. I spent less than half that on the above coin...Mike

 

Speedy here is what you need when hunting for these coins;
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4642&item=5627722828

 

I thought so....my dealer said he has had them before and thought he could get one for alittle over $100 but from what I've seen on auctions...the ones that go cheap have problems...so it looks like I'm going to have to hold out on this and wait for a nice cheap one that finds me!

Speedy

 

..........I think I can do better with out them....
A think finding coins takes more than bones....

Speedy