1866 Seated Liberty Dime Nice

Here are some pics of an 1866 dime I have that I am going to send in for grading. I have never had any coins certified before and was just wondering what the best company is for the Seated Liberty dimes. The pics do not do this coin justice. The coin has some toning but not as dark as the pics. Thanks for any help.

 

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there is no best company i would recommend pcgs or ngc. based on the pics provided i cant recommend that you send it to either.

 

Agreed with Spock.

How about a closeup of the area from the first S in states to the elbow, and the field in front of Liberty to America.

 

PCGS has the edge in value in the market
BUT
NGC is slightly easier to deal with.

I'd pass on ANACS and ICG until the dust settles from all the changes.

 

Nice looking dime and a tough date to boot. I would put it PCGS if it were mine and I wanted it in a holder. IMO, having it "professionally" graded and holdered would not add much of a premium...a problem free piece like this could probably sell for the same $$$ as it's slabbed counterpart based on it's own merit.

 

Here is a pic of the area between the S and the shoulder. There is a small cut mark there. But again the pic is not a very good one.

 

I will try for more pics when my battery charges back up. Thanks again.

 

At this point I think we have enough reasonable images to grade the coin.
NOW it has to be determined whether it's been cleaned or not.
From the looks of it, only a well-practiced grader will be able to do that AND only with the coin in hand.
In other words, if it has been cleaned it's only been done lightly and images won't help.

 

Treashunt here are the other pics I think these ones show the toning a little better. The coin is not as dark as the pictures show however. Thanks again to all who helped.

 

I'd tend toward AU-55.
Particularly notice the flattening on the breast in #6.
And there just seems to be at lot of small marks in general.

 

In the original pictures I thought that I saw something in those two areas, which was why I asked for closeups.

However,it is just my imagination.

Looks nice.

 

Here are a few pics of the back. Once again pics are darker than the coin.

 

that is one GORGEOUS dime IMO. I'd much rather have one that looked like that than some brand new looking blast white dime. Piece of art in my opinion.

 

Very nice coin.

 

Pardon my ignorance (again !)... but what is "finning" ? Is that the high point "ridges" in the folds of Libbie's drapery ?

 

Finning

This is caused by excessive striking pressure or a slight bit of die tilt.

 

Cool ! Thanks ! :thumb:

I can certainly see why you would say "if the coin ever saw circulation - that would be gone in a flash".

They say one of the diagnostics of a genuine 1911-D $2.5 is a knife edge in the northeastern obverse (say around 2 o'clock). Is that similar to finning ? Is it the same thing ?