CoinTalk's BEST COIN GRADERS (from pics)-6

Now that I look at the walker again, I'm changing too:

1944 - 66
1938 - 35
1939 - 66
1927 - 61 (cleaned?)

 

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Round 6 recap:

Another good round with strong participation.... we appear to be gelling aournd a nice core group of regulars and the competition is strong.

First,, Jello... will rank strongly after next round if he keeps up the current pace....

Some BB calls (applaud the conviction, but alas.... for not)

ANACS grades:
1944 - MS64 > looks nicer to me....
1938D - EF40 > I like the coin, nice toning.
1939D - MS65 > looks nicer to me.....really a nice golden coin with lots of luster.
1927S - AU58 > kinda bland luster as described in the thread, but enough left to grade.. no hairlines or evidence of stupid cleaning, but signs of dipping are there as described in the thread. Still a nice coins imo, with enough luster and detail to catch the eye for a few seconds.

Observations: The 44 and 39D are probably undergraded imo, everyone went high on the 44 and everyone went high on the 39D except swish (who nailed it). Lots of folks got the 38D, with the rest going lower. We had shots all over the target on the 27S, high, low, but no one nailed it....

Awards for this set of cents:
Best - Jello - 1.0 > will rank after the next round.
HA - RLM's / Mark_h - 2.75, the BB's hurt
Others:
raider - 1.25
lehigh - 1.75
bigjpst - 1.50
leadfoot - 1.25
bqcoins - 2.00
badthad - 1.50 .. revised.
swish - 1.75
chip - 1.75
duke - 1.75

On to round 7............

 

That's more like it.

 

Round 7

http://www.cointalk.com/t105521/

 

That 44 is harshly graded!

 

I have noticed that general tendency among the tpg's, that is they tend to grade common dates harsher than key and semi-key dates....
They probably do it to gain points as a conservative grading company,, then let a few of the aggressive grades go out to the key's.... but who knows now,, the patterns change among the tpgs over time.

 

I agree with that. I've seen plenty of keys that were over-graded.