Arrrrgggghhhh!!!!! Waiting on a "best offer" responce....

made a best offer but I think the seller is going to let the auction run almost out before he decides... Can't really blame him, she's a beauty or I wouldn't be considering her as she is "raw" I'm thinking XF/AU seller is calling it xf detail... if so it's a detail coin I can live with for the right price lol...
Now I just gotta hope he takes my offer or i win the auction lol

 

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Looks nice to me. One thing I wish sellers would do is stop using the word detail in the listing. I've found many will say the grade plus a variation on the word details to describe it but the coins are fine. I think the word should be avoided unless the coin would actually grade as a details coin. I've seen graded coins described as having MS details when the coin is straight graded. This coin looks mighty good to me and I'd call her AU. But, I'm by no means a professional grader, just my opinion. Hope you get it!

 

Awesome coin, I love the original surfaces. In fact, I have the tone-matching younger sister of your coin, purchased this last year

 

A 104 an R 3

 

What’s going between the E and the wreath on the reverse? Surface looks potentially disturbed.

 

Die rust, perhaps?

 

Huh? What's that? You mean like the band ??

 

I agree 100 % on the word "details" yet I've seen it used from top xellers to the every day Joe selling on ebay.
By all means "detail" ('s) in the numastics world isnt a word one wants to see in the description.
Yet again another duel meaning word to be avoided in the use of numastics. I believe that a better word would be < grade or description > I personally find it distracting while surfing the listings...to be caught up in click bait,and or a description that hints to a problem coin.
I agree with good images , a visual item, that shows any defects or its quality.
So potential buyer understands exactly what they are receiving.
But yes when I see Au. Details....my next question is detailed how? Cleaned, altered or tooled? Environmental???

 

I believe that the area in question is strike though...as well rim damage. Tough call not having in hand.
Reverse clashes.

 

The "rim damage" looks to me like a sloppy job of erasing the photo background.

 

Which is really the only sensible way to do it IMO -- the longer you wait to accept an offer, the more opportunity there is for someone else to make a higher offer.

 

Yes at first it looks like a sloppy crop job....no its a rim issue, that from the image to go on I believe that it was a mint error. Not damage or pmd.

 

It does to me too.
Which brings up another question, Why would someone go to the trouble to cover the background?

Mystery solved (OP edited)

Looks like a great coin for the grade.
Good luck.

 

yes is was my bad crappy cropping (covering the background)
as for the offer, got e-mail from seller this morning say he's going to let the auction run and wished me luck lol....

 

To be fair, you made the offer within the first 12 hours of a 7 day auction

 

Agreed, I didn't expect him to accept to be honest, but I hoped hehe... will be riding the auction closely

 

I like it a lot! The 1837 dime is definitely tougher than the 1837 half dime.

I don't have a no stars dime, even though I have the 1838-O half dime!

 

I’m not sure I truly understand the term detailed. Care to help me?

 

A coin can have the “details” of a particular grade of coin - XF, AU or MS etc but it isn’t getting a grade because of a problem- cleaned, whizzed, environmental damage.

So you get a slab that states VF details- polished or whatever. That is a details coin. So if you’re talking about a coin that doesn’t have a problem, avoid talking about its details.

 

Thanks. That clears that up