Guess The grade 1916 Merc

Any guess's?

 

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Is this another shop-vac find?
MS62

 

Ms66

 

Where's the luster?

Cleaned MS 62ish? Net graded 58 or 55?

Your guess is as good as mine...Mike

 

No no I wasnt cleaning today. lol

Lead foot .. good eye..

 

my guess is au58-ms60

 

Beautiful coin. I love Mercs!!!

 

I'll go with leadfoot. My first impression was ms-63 cleaned.

 

The NW-SE lines on the reverse are disturbing.
Certainly point toward being cleaned.
Appears to be FSB.
If cleaned I'd go with net AU-55.
Otherwise low MS- (dull surfaces)

 

that is so close to full split bands - ouch.

 

Sometimes you have to specify that you want attributes.
I wonder if that's the case here?

 

I do not believe that is the case for FB Mercs. To wit, look at the bottom band, and tell me if you think it is split/full.

 

Nice. I was going to say MS60 but it lacked some luster. I would of been close. Nice coin nonetheless.

 

p.s. Personally, and setting aside the luster (or lack thereof), if I were buying these coins this is EXACTLY the type of strike I would be looking for. It is absoultely hammered everywhere except for the bottom band, and can be bought for a fraction of the FB-designated coins. To pay multiples of price because of a strike characteristic on less than 1% of the coin seems silly, to me.

 

Now guess what I paid?

 

XF money?

 

$2.40 plus postage

 

$20.00 I think I did alright.

 

You did good, nice example of the first year of issue.