So I always get a coin or two from my parents as a Christmas gift, but this year, no coin. I figure that they just don't know what I want, so they didn't get any this year. But this morning, I open up the pack of socks that they gave me, and out came this lovely capped bust dime. Apparently they went to my favorite LCS and asked the dealer if he had anything on my want list, he told them that he was holding a coin for me, and here it is... Thanks momma!
If that was in your socks, what's hiding in the boxers?!?!? 1793 Chain Cent?? Very Nice coin! What did it grade as?
Great eye appeal. There's a chunk out above the eagle's right shoulder and a few rim dings, but there's a lot of detail in the devices. I would have guessed AU . . . and would have been wrong.
Clearly it was market graded, if it were AU, there wouldn't be many that could argue about it. But an old cleaning left it with an XF. I believe the grade is correct as far value is concerned.
I don't get it, how can it be an XF-45 when it has been cleaned? It should be XF details then w/o any numeric grade, right? Still, its a great coin anyway!
I think that is what happened here, though I wish that grading companies would just use the same standards across the board no matter what the coins age is.
True Kirk, but in the 'old days' cleaning a coin was deemed proper and accepted. We know better now......
I can understand why they do it, but I do trades without seeing the coins fairly often based on the grade on the slab, so I would just prefer a real hard and fast grading standard. I've been barking up this tree for a while now, but it appears that market grading is now, and forever will be part of the hobby.
