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<p>[QUOTE="johnny54321, post: 467311, member: 13342"]I agree with your assessment Richie. ANACS gave it a G-6. I guess they averaged the VG and AG grade and rounded up...lol. I will say though that I've looked at lots of PCGS and NGC G-4s, and almost everyone one of them had an incomplete rim somewhere(mostly on the reverse). Also, on barbercoins.org they infer that the reverse doesnt need to have a full rim to be a G-4. <a href="http://www.barbercoins.org/Grading-LN.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.barbercoins.org/Grading-LN.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.barbercoins.org/Grading-LN.html</a></p><p><img src="http://file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/HP_ADM%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />I would definitely expect a G-6 to have a full rim though on both sides. However, even though the reverse rim isn't complete, all of the letters are legible and none of them merge with the field. Oh well, it looks pretty darn good in my whitman (obverse display only) book!:hail::hail:</p><p>And it only cost me $99, which I felt was pretty reasonable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnny54321, post: 467311, member: 13342"]I agree with your assessment Richie. ANACS gave it a G-6. I guess they averaged the VG and AG grade and rounded up...lol. I will say though that I've looked at lots of PCGS and NGC G-4s, and almost everyone one of them had an incomplete rim somewhere(mostly on the reverse). Also, on barbercoins.org they infer that the reverse doesnt need to have a full rim to be a G-4. [URL]http://www.barbercoins.org/Grading-LN.html[/URL] [IMG]file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/HP_ADM%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg[/IMG]I would definitely expect a G-6 to have a full rim though on both sides. However, even though the reverse rim isn't complete, all of the letters are legible and none of them merge with the field. Oh well, it looks pretty darn good in my whitman (obverse display only) book!:hail::hail: And it only cost me $99, which I felt was pretty reasonable.[/QUOTE]
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