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<p>[QUOTE="cubenewb, post: 1090679, member: 25644"]#1 63</p><p>#2 66</p><p>#3 64</p><p><br /></p><p>Rationale:</p><p>#1- Lots of dings and the like, although someone pointed out that some of that is die cracks, so I may have been to critical.</p><p>#2- I'm not very good with nickels, all I know is that obverse is quite nearly immaculate, and the back is pretty scratched. In the past I've found the reverse condition has less adverse effects on the grade than the obverse, so I'm guessin they might work out to 66. I'm probably too high on this though</p><p>#3- Is the reverse weakly struck? The letters look pretty mushy... in that case I have great difficulty trying to set a grade to this. If I remember correctly (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong because I very well could be), but weakly struck specimens tend to have more leeway and are graded with their 'handicap' in mind? I went 64 for the great obverse and alright reverse, although my interpretation of weakly struck could really just be wear, in which case this is low MS or perhaps AU IMO</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Man... I'm going to be struggling with this a lot im sure... :S[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cubenewb, post: 1090679, member: 25644"]#1 63 #2 66 #3 64 Rationale: #1- Lots of dings and the like, although someone pointed out that some of that is die cracks, so I may have been to critical. #2- I'm not very good with nickels, all I know is that obverse is quite nearly immaculate, and the back is pretty scratched. In the past I've found the reverse condition has less adverse effects on the grade than the obverse, so I'm guessin they might work out to 66. I'm probably too high on this though #3- Is the reverse weakly struck? The letters look pretty mushy... in that case I have great difficulty trying to set a grade to this. If I remember correctly (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong because I very well could be), but weakly struck specimens tend to have more leeway and are graded with their 'handicap' in mind? I went 64 for the great obverse and alright reverse, although my interpretation of weakly struck could really just be wear, in which case this is low MS or perhaps AU IMO Man... I'm going to be struggling with this a lot im sure... :S[/QUOTE]
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