I would be conservative and say about MS65 because there are some blemishes but overall no matter who you are that's a great coin that I would'nt mind having in my collection.
What's going on with the forehead/temple area? Looks like a struck-thru and retained piece of metal or a die crack? It's hard to tell with that picture.
this could be a tricky one. I've see more than a few steel cents at 67 with spots like this before.. I think they may more readily form these in slabs than a copper cent... I'll go by details on this and say 66n1.
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Super strike and real nice luster. It is nearly mark free. Those lines on the reverse are die polishing lines. But then there are those spots. I have no idea if they were there or how much of a deduction they are. Without the spots, this is a solid 67/67+. With them, I would call it a 66. Whichever it was, NGC called it a 67 when they graded it.
The top 4 stayed the same while teh rest hopped around a bit. Shoewrecky reappears in the top 10. Top 10. Columns are rank, name, average, and number of guesses. ddoomm1 0.424 35 Leadfoot 0.457 37 BadThad 0.500 48 ldhair 0.500 32 swhuck 0.500 50 bahabully 0.532 49 rzage 0.538 28 brg5658 0.667 26 jcakcoin 0.667 38 Shoewrecky 0.674 45
I concur. That's always the challenge with these coins, and a prime example why relying on what the slab says can be a mistake as well as why we should all try to hone our grading skills.
