Hi there everyone! Yup! Received my first graded coin! In a nice ANACS slab: a 1942 Canadian 50 cents graded MS-62. It's a nice coin! But now I got many other coins who might be in slabs, but are not. So if I wan't to have an idea of their grades, I gotta guess them or pay more than I could to a grading company... Here are the images... One of them is a 1937 Canadian 50 cents. It looks pretty much like the other one in the slab, in my advice it might even be higher grade, but who am I? The other one is a 1918 Canadian 25 cents. All details clearly visible as you can see, the only thing is... it's between EF-40 and, well it could possibly be AU-55 or higher, I don't really know either. I'd really like if you guys could give a look to these and reply with your opinions on them. Thanks a lot! Max The 50 cents The 25 cents
Max, I may be way off here but I will give it a shot. I am getting more into Canadian coinage myself lately so I need the practice. 50 cents - AU-58 (was going to go higher but am sticking with my first impression) just seems to be a little wear and too many lines on the obverse with a few too many dings on the rim for a Mint State coin. 25 cents - EF-40 rim dings, a huge at the bottom on the obverse and some wear on the reverse and obverse make me put this one in this grade.
Hello Max, Those two coins are both beauties, I really like the toning beginning to show on the first. If I was to try to grade them I'd go with AU-55 on the top and XF-45 on the bottom one. Again, those are two beautiful coins. B
I believe the 50 cents would have graded MS64 or so - the quarter VF30. But both coins have been harshly cleaned and would be body bagged by a TPG
This is a case of 2 nice coins gone bad because of cleaning. Too bad , they were probably alot nicer before. Now they are bodybag material unless you send to NGC/NCS , ANACS or other lower tier graders where at least you can have them in a slab. Good luck and check what they might be worth in a slab as cleaned before you spent the money to submit them.
Now max did you have to become a member to have that graded? Or join a club? And how much did it cost if you wouldnt mind.. I wanted to get some graded but was unsure... Peter
Thanks for you inputs! peter170.... I bought it from someone else!... But I think it's usually between 20 to 30 dollars to get a coin graded. Got it for 30$ Max
Peter - You can find out anything you want to know about the various grading companies, how much it cost, membership requirements, how to submit etc etc by clicking on the following link - Grading Companies
It looks as though all coin grading companies need a membership plus the fee of the coin, not in the finacial position to do this..i still need to get my coin orginazition in order first... Peter
Boy that is a great link moderator GDJMSP, but is it necessary to spend money on this when it can be spent on collecting coins? Seems like a waiste of good money.
I'm not GDJMSP but I'll tell you what I think. There is a time to send off a coin to a grading company and a time not too....any coin that is highly faked is one I would feel need to sent off....such as a 1909-S VDB....it would be silly to buy one raw IMHO....also if selling you will get more money for a slabbed one than a raw one. My rule is to only send coins off that are worth at least $100 each.....sometimes I break that rule for a special coin but not offen. The best money spent is on books---buy the book before you buy the coin and not only buy it READ it. Speedy
Not necessary at all. I've never submitted a coin to be slabbed in my life. I just buy 'em already slabbed and don't worry about it
But there's a thing... I don't get how you can say these coins were cleaned... Particularly that 50 cents which it very probably MS-60+ .. And why would someone clean a piece which is already.. clean?
Because it wasn't "clean" - it had some pretty heavy toning on it. Whoever cleaned it thought it would sell for more if it was "clean". And how can I say this ? It just takes experience. You have to know what you are looking at and what it is that you see when you see it. One obvious sign are the lines on the obverse - those are light scratches from cleaning. Another sign is the tiny bits of dark left in the protected corners and crevices of the devices. Still another are the dark spots on the obverse that you can kind of see through. Cleaned coins have a distinctive look that one can recognize when you have seen enough of them - like I said, it's experience.
