You must be reading between the lines again, as I neither thought nor wrote that you had broken any rule of decorum. You had written: I had...
Ben, Greg, who posted that is an active and extremely knowledgeable collector. He also apparently knows a number of graders at the major grading...
Maybe you're reading something that wasn't there? "JP" is J. P. Martin - I believe he was formerly an ANACS grader, then an ICG grader and now an...
Who did that? I must have missed it.
I agree with you, in theory. However, it is human nature for sellers to consider their cost when determining their asking price. You might be...
Sorry - I first heard of the A,B,C rankings about 15 years ago.
I'm not Phoenix, but typically A is for high end, B for mid-range and C is for low end within a given grade.
What do you disagree with? Do you think that professional graders aren't gifted? That forum members here are better graders than the...
I don't mind at all, telling you that those were each purchases from dealers at large coin shows. That is where I obtain most of my inventory,...
Yes, I was speaking of "top tier slabs" and in my case, almost exclusively NGC and PCGS coins, as that is primarily what I deal in. Caution and...
I would grade it Fine, though I am not surprised to see it in a VF holder.
Guy, taking your example, the number of MS62 coins which, if resubmitted, would come back MS65 or higher, is incredibly small in terms of numbers...
It completely depends upon the coin and the dealer, and as much as people would like a simple answer, it doesn't work that way. I try to handle...
How could you possibly know that unless you had been tested and scored over a long period of time and with a huge sample size of coins?
My guess is still AU, but either way, it looks way too lackluster to be an MS65 or even an MS64.
Thanks.
Is that the same as somewhere between XF and Unc.?
There appears to be wear, most notably, right in the middle of the cheek. That, along with subdued luster, is what causes me to agree with those...
It looks like a nice coin to me and my grade guess would be AU53.
I don't see any evidence of tooling, though it looks rather heavily abraded on each side and cleaned.
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