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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2526118, member: 1892&quot;]I actually rather like the milkspotted 1921&#039;s for one major reason - you can be absolutely sure they&#039;re unmolested, original-surface coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>The grade was <b>vicious</b> on NGC&#039;s part. Not that you should, but if CAC considers cracked planchets worthy of mainstream grades, there&#039;s no way this one doesn&#039;t get a gold bean. I&#039;m thinking the die pair is pretty old - note the granularity around the denticles; the surface was beginning to break down there, and I can see evidence of perimeter characters starting to draw to the edges. This old, the scribbles (if any) might be too worn for an attribution that way, and that nice crack thru OF may not even be known yet for whatever VAM it is (knowing the VAM doesn&#039;t mean we know all the die states yet).</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s an excellent strike for the wear on the dies, though. You can see where the denticles flattened at the crack on the reverse, but the talon detail seems all there and the large lower leaves are almost complete. Plenty of detail above the ear, and the cotton bolls look almost full. Well-struck. </p><p><br /></p><p>Have a closer look at the obverse crack thru the E. That&#039;s a very popular place for 1921&#039;s to crack. To the left of the E, it looks almost to have become a displaced field but that could be the lighting.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d have outbid you for this one if I&#039;d seen it too. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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