Hese's a new listing from Clown College Grading Service (nice coin world holder there) with a grade of G-5? Since when has g-5 been accepted jeez. It doesn't even have a full rim on the reverse! :headbang: http://cgi.ebay.com/1901-S-Barber-D...ryZ11959QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
It even says that they have 30,175 Positive feedback out of 30,175 feedbacks given. Check the sellers actual rating and it's 14,444 Positive and only a 99.6% positive. Pretty pathetic to waste your time to grade a coin by an unheard of grading service and then try to sell it. Waste of money-USE A 2x2 CARDBOARD FLIP-thats my shoutout to the seller.
Chuckle, I've purchased from this seller before but the coin I picked up was a pretty HTF Overton Bust Half. It was actually undergarded in my opinion, but it's out iof the holder now and I'm using it (the coin world holder) to protect a gold eagle now. B
Well when you are talking the big money of the elite quality coins up in the G-4 and even the awesome G-6 range it makes sense to have a push grade when the difference between G-4 and G-6 is an astronomical $30 or so dollars JK of course. Yes sir thats a grade thats been sorely needed. E-bay never ceases to amaze and/or confuse me.
Did you notice on the description that the dime is made of gold! Wow what a dime. Also has an offering graded at the ANA book standard of XF-48
Not defending the seller, but just offering some general explanation on the specific example in case anyone hasn't see this before... which I doubt, but you know what happens when you assume. If you look at the feedback profile there are 31,285 feedbacks. These were left by 14493 specific eBay members. Each member gives one feedback bump regardless of how many positives were left. So if I buy 100 coins from you in 100 separate auctions and I give you 100 positives, it still increases your feedback rating by only 1. The 14,493 positive members are offset by 55 who left a negative -- although interestingly, eBay does not offer the total number of negative comments as a statistic. The most any member can ding a seller is still by 1. If I got taken on 25 coins in 25 different auctions and left 25 negatives for the seller, I still only reduce the seller's rating by 1. The 25 negatives would show in the "Recent Ratings" table though. I've always thought it important to read the actual negatives and neutrals.
That's what clicking here is for. Personally I like to check the buyer-only feedback, and to see total feedback of 4.5 times rating, or more, indicating many multiple repeat buyers.
G-5 has been used in the copper community for about 58 years now. As have G-6, VG-7, VF 25, & VF 35. On rare occaisions we may even use some of the other numbers. I have seen 1916-D dimes graded by the big three without full rims graded as high as VG-8. That is unusual though. But 16-D's graded full G with no rim rev and partial rim obv is by PCGS, NGC, and ANACS is not unusual at all. I've seen Barber dimes with rims like that in PCGS slabs as G-4. It is just the normal slipping of grading standards.
I'm breathlessly awaiting the coming of the decimal grades: MS - 65 1/2 PF - 68.393701 LP - 33 1/3 :headbang: Oh, no, wait, that last one is a vinyl record. Wait till those start getting slabbed :whistle:
Don't forget Pie - 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117
Darn! You guys beat me to that one. I was just going to say the same thing. However, no fractions please. Lets stick with purely decimals so change the 65 1/2 to MS-65.5487 or MS-65.5488 depending on rims.
Apple or chocolate cream? I hadn't thought about how that would fit into a grade. I guess somewhere between e and G-4.
It's a BG-4 ( barely good) but not quite AG, kind of the lowest good and kinda ugly, but makes the grade wear-wise.
