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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 4200260, member: 105571&quot;]It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...&nbsp;&nbsp; Whoops, this is Dickens and this post is to compare two draped bust quarters which might well have been still in circulation when Dickens was publishing.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first coin is an 1805 in an ICG holder graded F-15.&nbsp; I bought this at a local show last year for my type set because I thought it had a lot of meat on the bone for the grade, looked nice, and I negotiated a nice price.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second is an 1806 in a NGC holder graded F-12 with a CAC green bean.&nbsp; This coin is out there now in auction and this post is NOT intended to denigrate this coin or in any other way interfere in the auctioning of this coin.&nbsp; I have hidden the serial number and other identifiers in an excess of caution.</p><p><br /></p><p>The purpose here is ask the erudite membership if I should consider crossing my coin to PCGS or NGC and then asking for a CAC bean.&nbsp; Crossing and submission is not something I have ever contemplated until now-for any coin.&nbsp; It is also to ask if the sharper eyes and minds that reside here can see anything about my coin that makes it less attractive than I think.</p><p><br /></p><p>Feel free to opine (as if you won&#039;t).&nbsp; Thanks.</p><p><br /></p><p>Moderators:&nbsp; If I have violated any explicit or implicit rule by posting a coin that is currently on the market, please correct my error and let me know that I have transgressed.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1077407[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1077425[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1077423[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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