I'll only rank those who played in the last round. Six more players have exceeded the 10 grades mark, so had thier lowest grade dropped... Every 11th grade you get to drop your lowest. Abe:hail: - drops lowest Shoe:hail: - drops lowest RLM's:hail: - drops lowest MPCUSA:hail: - drops lowest BadThad:hail: - drops lowest Duke:hail: - drops lowest * Next set of drops at 20... I think everyone will get there in this set, so we'll all have our two lowest dropped next week. Rankings (points reflect average points off pcgs grades): GOLD - MPCUSA. - 2.86 (didn't grade the 22 last week,, sneeky):kewl: SILVER - Duke - 3.00 BRONZE - Rlm's cent - 3.31 (.. breaking to the front near the halfway point) OUTSTANDING round 4 :hammer: 4th - BadThad - 3.88 5th - Mark_H - 4.11 6th - Mikenoodle - 4.35 7th - Abe - 4.44 8th - Shoe - 4.85 ** Mark_H and Mikenoodle have offered a grade for every coin posted, some of which were hard on thier score...... I'll probably normalize the ranks at the end to provide more equity for this. Maybe just score based on coins which where graded by all... or other method. We'll cross that bridge later.. just wanted to note it. I think they are around 4 coins deeper than the rest of this group, so should be easy to normalize. And now.... Here is the next set: All are PCGS graded. Theme is color.. we won't score by it, but offer it up along with your grades anyway and lets see how we do.
1966 - MS68 1924 - MS65 1929S - MS66 (NICE!) 1954S - MS64 1972 DDO - MS66 (horrible pics and stratches on slab) 1931D - MS66
1966 - MS-67RD SMS 1924 - MS-64 RB 1929-S - MS-65 RD 1954-S - MS-65 RD I am assuming that the 3 HUGE gashes on Lincoln's head are on the holder. 1972/72 - MS-66RB 1931-D MS-65 RB
1924 - MS65 1966 - MS66 SMS 1954S - MS64 1929S - MS64 1931D - MS64 (Nice coin, but luster seems to be lacking) 1972 DDO - MS63
Oh man, I missed round 4...here are my guesses for round 5... 1966 P - ms68 rd 1924 P - ms65 rd 1929 S - ms64 rd 1954 S - ms63 rd 1972 P - ms63 rd 1931 D - ms62 rd -LTB
1966 - MS67RD not sure but the color looks blotchy or photo 1924 - MS65RD 1929S - MS64RD bad pict and think the scratch's are on holder and not coin 1954S - MS65RB but looks like altered color but can't tell well from picture 1972 - MS65RD DDO 1931D - MS64RD
Round 5 recap: PCGS grades - 66 - MS65 SMS 24 - MS64 BN 29S - MS63 RD 54S - MS65 RD 72 DD - MS64 RD 31D - MS64 RB Per request, my opinions: Theme was color. My observation of diffused lite pictures is that it tends to make cents appear abit more red than in hand. Although in this set, the RB's do appear very very close to RD, and the BN does appear to be RB in hand. Which brings up another observation regarding the TPG,, PCGS can be very hard on color. 66 - Standard 65 SMS, nice, nothing special. I probably would have been around 66. 24 - Head scratcher... appears RB in hand imo, although the Red is somewhat dulled and not what I'd call mint red. Nice toning. 29s - A candidate for an easy upgrade IMO. Must have been downgraded by the tpg for the tick by the mouth and the minor rb'ish stain behind the head. 54s - cooool coin. half yellow and half red tone, very pretty. Would be a bombshell if it wasn't for the gash and other hits on Abe's head. 72dd - old holder, solid coin. 31d - Another one that could easily go RD from another tpg imo,, and maybe warranted. I'd guess 85-90% RD and the B ain't very B,, more RB, and most of the RB is Redish.... oh well... there were a few of you who read it well. Awards for this set of cents: Best - A few tied this round - .83 (RLM's, Shoe, Duke) HA - Louie_two_bits - 1.67 - see what cutting class gets you. Color winner - Mikenoodle - Only one to see B in the 24.. and only one to see B in the 31D... and btw,, the only one to see B in the 72 (which twas'nt there)... But well done ! Reading B in RB's under diffused light is tough,,, worth expending another round with color as the theme. Now on to round 6. We'll do six cents in round 6. Theme will be color (again), but will still be scored by grading offered.
Ahhh.. left over from a previous round... copying pasting so I don't have to type it all by scratch each update... good eye RLM's. Edited out.
