GTG Cascade Jefferson Nickels

Now for the moment of truth..... @heavycam.monstervam you missed this one.....now the 99 D that's >95% off center was never graded. Never believed that for the money it would get an honest grade. However no one picked up on that it's not graded. See the images below.....
I couldn't believe that the 25 specimens I sent in would of come back as they did. None were below 64, two were 69 most fell in the 66/67 range and 19 came back as FS nickels . Now what really shocked me as a nickel collector was that these errors came back graded higher then some problem free specimens I sent in for grading .

 

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These are some fantastic errors. Sorry I missed on the fun.

I will say, however, I'm not a huge fan of the "grading" on most error coins. I would prefer to see them as "UNC. Genuine." How do you grade a coin where 50-75% of the coin is missing? How do you grade a coin that has been double struck and a significant portion of the surface has distortion? Does a grade really mean much on a coin that is unique due to the manufacturing processes going awry? Grades don't mean much on these. Error collectors may disagree, but grading errors always just seemed... silly... to me.

 

Like grading a 3M sanding disk

 

And again the 99 D Why Grade that? I just love it because you see the date, mm, and FS . Just the fact that those 3 items can be seen makes the cool factor to me.

 

Now there was a real opportunity for a mint employee who needs to pass through a medal detection to score big. I can see the population report on these exploding. Well maybe not as you do have different grits.

 

I'm not entirely convinced of that. I think it *could* have been struck and got out by legitimate means.