The grades are up online and shipped. Does anyone want to take another swing at the grade and if it's a star, PL, or no extra designation?
I think the Matte listing is a typo by Krause.
Probably lol. I'd be fine with an SMS star grade. I do wonder how this is a CAM. Maybe it looks very different in-person. [ATTACH]
Took coin out of Xylene bath, took some post-Xylene photos, now in 2nd acetone bath... One thing I like to look for in cameo coins is how much...
I have a spreadsheet using Google Sheets. It's very complex at first glance and took a while when I first set up the formulas. But, it...
Yeah, I just called PCGS and customer service affirmed that Cameo or Deep Cameo implies a mirrored surface, so it'd be redundant. But, if the...
Do you know if PCGS still does or doesn't?
Ok first acetone bath done, took pics, and now it's in xylene. Here are the pics (sorry for the poor quality!): [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Actually, this is interesting because if I submit the coin without the cellophane, they may say MS-6X RD PL instead of MS-6X RD SMS (either with...
Sure, it's a bit hard to get the lighting right, since it distorts the cameo effect somewhat but here it is below. I think that a lot of the marks...
Does PCGS assign PL grades to SMS pennies? I hope so but I don't see it on their page. Or, is PL super uncommon on SMS? [ATTACH]
I just watched a YouTube video review of this and they said that the bullion wand (goes down to 4mm according to the vlogger) doesn't make a...
Coin roll hunting?
Here's a closeup of the denticles on the reverse, and edges look sharper / more squared than on my other Columbian halves: [ATTACH]
Ok I took it out of its cello shell... and it's nicely mirrored! That's got to count for something, right? [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
So, I cracked it out of the non-PCGS, non-NGC slab... Do you think that this coin is a PL, or a proof?? Probably not a proof strike but worth...
IMHO, part of the strangeness of the "philosophy of grading" is that many MS-63 coins have greater and deeper noise in the fields and bust; yet,...
Just so that I'm not missing anything... due to that scratch area referenced in the first post, right? Esp. since the rest of the coin makes that...
The whole obverse this time. [ATTACH]
Do you think that densely packed scratches in parallel, such as what's seen below, come back from PCGS as Details? The hairline (or somewhat...
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