Saw this advertised on Craig's List today for way too little money so I had to suggest to the seller that she should get herself a RedBook before offering more of these semi-key coins for chump change. She still has other rolls of cents she just got from her deceased grandma and may want help grading them and pricing them. I know what I grade this 1912-S at , but would like to see what others think.
That's mighty nice of you... I don't have that great of a track record grading highly circulated cents, but I'll take a shot and say G4. -LTB
I give it a VG-8 or a weak F-12. The wheat lines are visible. But there is no separation that can be seen between the cheekbone and the jaw,
Thanks to all that graded ! I am in the camp with those who graded in the VG , because there really is alot of wear on the OBV and the wheats on the right hand side of the REV show obvious wear. So I would say it is a solid VG-8 ( I will try to remember that when it is time to upgrade & I sell this one on eBay )
If it weren't for the wear on the left hand wheat heads and the rim dings around that same area , I would have given that a low VF-20. But because of the obvious wear on that wheat head I have to guess solid F-12.
Sorry Rim's but I have to say VF-20. hA, HA . fooled ya! The obverse is just to well defined to let a little wear on the reverse wheat heads to grade your '25-S to a F-12grade. That's a swell cent. I still think I'm being objective too. zeke
I guess no one else is going to guess the grade and i cannot post another. That coin is PCGS's photograde example for a VF-20. Take a peak http://www.pcgs.com/photograde/#/Lincoln/Grades. I will grant you that there is a little less wear than yours, but it is getting there. Look at PCGS's F-12 coin. Yours appears to me to have less wear that theirs, but probably a little more wear than their F-15.
Hey Louie >>check these out<< The woman was so impressed with my forthrightness yesterday that she called me again today and sold me all of the following for $40.00. 1878 Morgan 8TF VF-20 1930-S Buffalo Nickel EF-40 1925-S Wheat VF - EF 1918-S Wheat EF+ 1927-S Wheat VG 1911-D Wheat VF-EF 1928-S Wheat G-4 If you would like to see any of these to see if my grading was close or way off just let me know and I will post some pics or scans. Some are covered with a weird dirt but the parts of the coins you can see are sharp. I am almost tempted to EEEKKKK clean the 1911-D !
OK , here are the 1st 2 coins. Forgive the old 2x2's they are in , but I didn't want to open them til after I scanned them sufficiently. I will be scanning the Wheat Cents over the next little while. Well this is a first , I am getting a fatal error when trying to upload the 1st scan: Fatal error: Call to a member function fetch_namespaceid() on a non-object in /var/www/html/includes/class_upload.php(382) : eval()'d code on line 5
ok let's try this again Testing Testing This is only a test , actual $40.00 lot of coins to follow ( when I get to my home computer )
now that we can upload pictures again ... ok I finished scanning my $40.00 acquisitions and they reveal flaws I couldn't see before , so I think I may have over graded all of them except the 1930-S Buffalo ( it actually still has a lot of the original mint luster hidden beneith that 2x2 ! ) 1st the Morgan 8TF & 1927-S Wheat:
Thanks, nice, nice coins. I really like em' all. Flea market time is is fast acomin'. Maybe I'll get as lucky as you. Nice scans. They sure show every nook and cranny of coins.
