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<p>[QUOTE="Steelers72, post: 7536114, member: 112504"]Thanks for your insight. I had gotten it graded once in hand because the surfaces looked smooth and clarify the edge. What they called “Feine Tönung (fine toning)” was aggressive poorly executed smoothing. Auction was in mid March and the coin just made it back from NGC’s grading this past week</p><p><br /></p><p>If the coin was clarified as smoothed and edge chip, it would have reduced the value of the coin by more than half for sure. Another coin of this type w/ smoothing with slighty better surfaces (no edge chip) recently went for a third of this one’s final price.</p><p><br /></p><p>they’re a reputable European auction house, but definitely feel slighted by the lack of description & pictures. Harsh or not, 1/5 for surfaces pretty much means the surfaces cant get any worse lol. In hand that edge chip sticks out way more than the photographs by the auction house. To market it solely as “fine toning almost extra fine” is way too lenient.</p><p><br /></p><p>we will see how they handle it, I paid via PayPal so before escalating a dispute I’ll hope for the auction house to do what’s right.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Steelers72, post: 7536114, member: 112504"]Thanks for your insight. I had gotten it graded once in hand because the surfaces looked smooth and clarify the edge. What they called “Feine Tönung (fine toning)” was aggressive poorly executed smoothing. Auction was in mid March and the coin just made it back from NGC’s grading this past week If the coin was clarified as smoothed and edge chip, it would have reduced the value of the coin by more than half for sure. Another coin of this type w/ smoothing with slighty better surfaces (no edge chip) recently went for a third of this one’s final price. they’re a reputable European auction house, but definitely feel slighted by the lack of description & pictures. Harsh or not, 1/5 for surfaces pretty much means the surfaces cant get any worse lol. In hand that edge chip sticks out way more than the photographs by the auction house. To market it solely as “fine toning almost extra fine” is way too lenient. we will see how they handle it, I paid via PayPal so before escalating a dispute I’ll hope for the auction house to do what’s right.[/QUOTE]
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