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<p>[QUOTE="dimeguy, post: 7889574, member: 19855"]Reveal time! </p><p><br /></p><p>Preface: I am fairly new to the Walking Liberty Halves. I am fully aware my grading skills are not yet accurate, let alone confident. Secondly, I generally find ICG to do fairly well in the silver series I have studied up to this point. For the copper Lincoln Wheat cents...they are everywhere from graded too high, too low, or right on in my honest opinion. However, with that said, when I saw this one I thought, "No, this doesn't seem right." </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1361240[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>For my guess, I wagered a Fine. I felt lines were there in the skirt, not full. Eagle wing showed vertical linear definition though not full for the upper small wing to have full separation. Olive branch showed more definition though not enough for me to say distinctly VF. Again, based on popular opinion here, I may have under graded it, but that is fine. I know I am still learning. Still, I felt this coin does warrant more than the VG it earned, so I was happy to buy it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dimeguy, post: 7889574, member: 19855"]Reveal time! Preface: I am fairly new to the Walking Liberty Halves. I am fully aware my grading skills are not yet accurate, let alone confident. Secondly, I generally find ICG to do fairly well in the silver series I have studied up to this point. For the copper Lincoln Wheat cents...they are everywhere from graded too high, too low, or right on in my honest opinion. However, with that said, when I saw this one I thought, "No, this doesn't seem right." [ATTACH=full]1361240[/ATTACH] For my guess, I wagered a Fine. I felt lines were there in the skirt, not full. Eagle wing showed vertical linear definition though not full for the upper small wing to have full separation. Olive branch showed more definition though not enough for me to say distinctly VF. Again, based on popular opinion here, I may have under graded it, but that is fine. I know I am still learning. Still, I felt this coin does warrant more than the VG it earned, so I was happy to buy it.[/QUOTE]
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