CoinTalk's BEST COIN GRADERS (from pics)-16 FINALS !!!

Round 16 ! Finals !!

LAST ROUND !! .. we'll have to think of a way to play with raw after this if ya'll want to continue... idea ?

I'll only rank those who played in the last round.

Dropped score after every 16th.
Dropped scores this week.
BQcoins - drops third:hail:
Ldhair - drops second:hail:

Gotta have at least 10 graded to rank.

Rankings (points reflect average grades off tpg grades):
GOLD - Raider - .66
SILVER - Leadfoot - .80
BRONZE - Duke - .83 .... almost an exact reversal of scores and position for Leadfoot and Duke....
and now the Pack:
4th - BQcoins - .86
5th - Lehigh - .91 ... almost an exact reversal of scores and position for BQ and Lehigh..
6th - RLM's - .92 .. late break from the back, jumping up 3 positions.
7th - Ldhair - .93
8th - Bigjpst - .94
9th - Mark_h - .95
10th - Badthad - 1.00
11th - Swish - 1.02
12th - Jallengomez - 1.58 .. newly ranked.
13th - Chip - 1.68

TPG's this round:
NGC - 1881S
PCGS - 1925
NGC - 1944D
NGC - 1931D

 

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last two of the exercise:

 

1881S - MS67 (Beautiful coin!)
1925 - MS66
1944D- MS67
1931D- MS65 (Wild guess)

 

66
67fb
66
67rd
on a side note maybe you could pm Doug a bunch of pics for the next contest...what would gdjmsp grade? that would be a tough one

 

Ms66
ms65 fb
ms66
ms66 rd

 

that sounds like a nice idea... but unsure if Doug would play... he's said before that it's impossible to grade coins by pictures and appears to be principally opposed to the notion (although I firmly believe we have proven otherwise in these two exercises).

Anyway,, what'cha think Doug ? I could post an entire series of raw lincoln's to start a new raw cent thread,, and let you be the grader.. that way I could even play !! You be the official grader and take the heat, and I'll keep score if you'd like...

Speak !

 

NGC - 1881-S = MS-66
PCGS - 1925- = MS-66
NGC - 1944-D = MS-66
NGC - 1931-D = MS-66 That is one @#$% of a coin.

 

Now this is weird, I am usually under all the other grades people post, but on these... The 81s Morgan this for some reason is a coin I have seen in higher grades more often than most any other coin, why the 81s? I do not know, but I gave it an ms 67, the 25 merc I looked and looked at the area behind the wings, was it lack of luster, was it some spotty tone? I took it as tone and guess a ms-65, the 44 walker is another of those coins that I have seen many in high grades, I will guess it is a ms65, I think that sort of cross hatched toning comes from being handled with cotton fiber gloves. The 31d is stunning, I gave it a 67plus.

 

66
66fb
66
65rd

 

Going with 66 on all of them. I think the dime is FB's also, but not 100% because the middle band has what looks like a little hit(but it could be the holder or anything) on the right. The morgan looks really nice with clean fields. The penny I can't tell from the lighting if it is rd or not, but it is nice - a couple of non-distracting hits in the hair, but very nice. Nice batch of coins.

 

Ms66
ms66 fb
ms65
ms66

 

66
66
67 nice image
66 RD

I think we all would have lost our shirts if we had actually bought the coins based on our grading from just the images.
Great contest and thanks for all your work.

 

Now that would be fun - someone could send doug some images, he gives his opinion on grade based off the images. Then we try to match dougs opinion. Might be a tad much work for him to do all the posting. Still not a bad idea.

 

66
65
66
66rd

 

66
66
66
65

 

1881- ms66
1925- ms65
1944- ms66
1931- ms66

 

1881S - MS66 maybe PL but Gorgeous!
1925 - MS66 FB (L looks dbl'd)
1944D - MS66
1931D - MS66 RB

 

..Round 16 recap:.... the final round.... final ranking thread upcoming.

Well,, it was a fitting ending, and can be expressed as the Raiders death blow to the group.... This dude "can" look at a picture and grade coins fella's........

NGC grades:
1881S - MS67* < purty.. nicer in hand, as you may imagin.
PCGS grades:
1925 - MS67 < no FB,, huh. Only 2 graded this high by pcgs with no FB. Also much nicer in hand,, lots of blue tone that looks like gray gunk in the pictures.
NGC grades:
1944D - MS67 < like someone painted it,, literally.. beaut.
1931D - MS65RB < outstanding details.. upgrade candidate imo.

Awards for this set of coins:
Best - Raider - .25 < who else... broke into the lead around turn two, and only accelerated from there.
HA - Chip- 1.50
Others:
Bigjpst - 1.00
Lehigh - 1.25
RLM's - 1.00
Leadfoot - .75
Mark_h - 1.00
BQcoins - 1.25
Ldhair - .75
Jallengomez - 1.25
Badthad - .75
Swish - 1.25
Duke - 1.00

Final recap upcoming... Gotta warm up with a few beers first..............
Outstanding exercise folks,, everyone did very well given the limitations of grading by pictures.... kudo's.

Doug - R U ready to assume responsibility that comes with the title of "omnipotent moderator and grader" ?
If not, then I'd recommend with solicit RLM's as omnipotent grader for a RAW cent exercise given he's the reigning 'proven' best in class CENT grader in the forum....
After that we can go with Raider for a motley raw pot exercise...
.. again, depending upon Doug's willingness to play...
So > speak your Doug'ness ?

Bravo all !

 

I miss the grading

 

Yeah,,, we either need more slabbed coins to post,,, or someone to step up to the omnipotent grader position so we could start to post raw...

... U wanna be official grader ? , your obviously good enough at it to at least keep the results reasonable.