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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jack D. Young, post: 3066381, member: 93371&quot;]OK, there are a number of camps with opinions on slabbing of coins, from the early copper guys, with many who loath slabs (and “professional” opinions of grade, condition, etc.) to folks who sell for a living and the slab and grade help in determining value and selling price- I am NOT trying to start a debate here about that! I am interested though in grade “inflation” and the crack-out dance to try and improve the grade and “value”. I understand it is done with high grade examples of silver and gold types but I am not aware of it happening a lot with early copper.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]769739[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I purchased this 1794 “head of ‘93” S-18b in a genuine environmental damage- G detail holder with an interesting planchet defect. The coin appeared to have higher detail than good to my eyes and the environmental damage seemed minimal compared to the mint made planchet issue; I decided to send it in for review and see how it may shake out from a second opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]769740[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone care to advance a guess as to the results?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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