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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stldanceartist, post: 26438886, member: 13307&quot;]All right!&nbsp; Good morning!&nbsp; It&#039;s a beautiful day for revealing coin grades!</p><p><br /></p><p>As I mentioned earlier, I was only &quot;correct&quot; (in that my opinion matched that of PCGS&#039;) on ONE coin out of this submission.</p><p><br /></p><p>I sent in 13 coins in total.</p><p><br /></p><p>One coin (the super worn but IMO just-legible-enough 1896 S Barber Quarter I pulled from a junk bin) did not grade (Authenticity Unverifiable.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1686750[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1686751[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Three coins - not pictured here - received UNC Details (Cleaned) grades:</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><b>1845 Seated Liberty Dime with RPD f108a </b></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">(<i>I thought it would grade MS64, which would be a really fun find.</i>)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1686748[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><b>1883 (No CENTS) Liberty Nickel</b></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">(<i>Formerly a PCI MS66, I guessed it would get a couple steps down and come back as an MS64.&nbsp; womp womp...</i>)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1686746[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><b>1876 Seated Liberty Dime</b></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">(I honestly thought I&#039;d found a proof with its flat rims, mirror-like fields, and sharp details.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1686752[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Two coins from the submission I did not include in my GTG due to them being proofs, and since it&#039;s really difficult to grade a proof from pictures I&#039;ll just share them:</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><b>1904 Proof Indian Head Cent (PCGS PR65RB) </b></p><p><br /></p><p>(<i>I was concerned they might AU/impair it due to the different toning on the obverse, but in the end I felt it would be a PR64RB.&nbsp; I was happy with the bump up a grade!</i>)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1686747[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><b>1883 3 Cent (CuNi) (PCGS PR66CAM)</b></p><p><br /></p><p>(<i>Again, I was very conservative in my expectations for this coin, thinking I&#039;d be happy with a PR63 or PR64, eventually settling on PR63.&nbsp; Very happy with the 66CAM.</i>)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1686749[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Back to the coins I actually included in the GTG</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Coin 1: 1873 (Open 3) Indian Head Cent</b></p><p><br /></p><p>My predicted grade was MS64BN.&nbsp; PCGS came back at me with a HUGE win and called it MS66BN.</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Coin 2: 1903 Liberty Nickel</b></p><p><br /></p><p>My predicted grade was MS62, worried about the weak strike and dig in the obverse fields.&nbsp; PCGS, however, came back at me with another big bump at MS65.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Coin 3: 1831 Capped Bust Dime</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I was <i>pretty</i> close with this one, predicting an AU53.&nbsp; PCGS came back with another bump up at AU58.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Coin 4: 1856 (Small Date) Seated Liberty Dime</b></p><p><br /></p><p>My predicted grade for this one was MS64, and PCGS called it an MS62.&nbsp; Pretty sure I originally paid AU50 money for it, so it&#039;s still a win.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Coin 5: 1861 Seated Liberty Dime</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, apparently I was WAY too harsh on this one, thinking it would come back an AU55 (I still have my notes saying I paid AU55 bid for it.)&nbsp; PCGS gave me my biggest jump up, though, calling it an MS65.&nbsp; Wowza!</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Coin 6: 1892 Barber Quarter (Tripled Die Reverse)</b></p><p><br /></p><p>This is the ONLY coin on the submission where my expected grade matched the one received from PCGS at AU58.&nbsp; It has luster, it has details, but I felt like it had enough clear wear on it that it didn&#039;t stand a chance at MS.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Coin 7: 1937 S Washington Quarter (Doubled Die Obverse)</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, a recent cherrypick from a coin show (for $10!) and the coin that spurred me to actually send in the submission.&nbsp; My pics made the coin look absolutely horrible and definitely AU (I really have to work on that, I guess) but PCGS gave me a big win at MS62.&nbsp; The coin really does look MS in hand - tons of luster.&nbsp; I was low key really hoping for a low MS grade on this one, even though I felt it would probably come back as an AU58.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not that there is (or needs to be) a &quot;winner&quot;, but by my tally (fell free to double check me) the winner is... [USER=111583]@Mr.Q[/USER], who got every single one correct by stating they&#039;d be somewhere between a 1 and 70.&nbsp; hahaha...</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=15309]@Lehigh96[/USER] was correct that I matched PCGS on the Barber Quarter.</p><p><br /></p><p>Really though, I think [USER=142588]@Mr. Numismatist[/USER] with 3/7 correct did the best out of all of us, myself included.&nbsp; It was a challenging group to grade, to be honest, but I ended up with 7/13 coming back as higher grades than expected plus one &quot;sort of&quot; Top Pop (<i>the MS66BN 1873 IHC is tied for finest in BN even though there are MS66 RB and MS66 RD plus I think an MS66+RD.</i>)</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the ones that came back cleaned will be inspected and possibly sent off to another TPG to get a second opinion at a straight grade, and the 1896 S is definitely going elsewhere to see if someone else will attribute it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for stopping by and enjoying my post![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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