Guess the grade #35

1938-S NGC slabbed

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63

weak strike, scratches on bust

 

64

 

65

 

I vote MS65. TC

 

Guessing 63

 

You call yourself rim's cents and can't grade 'em yourself?

 

Please join in Major. Can you grade them?

 

Let;s face it---grading is not scientific. On any given day, the top TPGs would grade the same coin differently.

Kudos to rim's cents for his moniker--it makes sense.

 

majorbugtime,

First off, one of the things my mother taught me was to identify the letters of the alphabet. Apparently your mother failed at this.

Secondly, I think you will find I have guessed on most of these. Funny, but I have yet to miss one of my guesses.

 

64+2= MS66 Red

 

66

luster wins over hits

 

It never fails! All of the TGP's unfairly weight luster over hits and imperfections.

 

When you look at a coin at arms length, what catches your attention first? A small mark that's perhaps 1/32 of an inch large and can hardly be seen without magnification, or the coin's luster?

Therein lies your response to why I said what I did and why I disagree with your use of the word "unfairly".

To me (and most coin collectors, I would argue), luster (along with eye appeal) is much more important when it comes to market grading (which is what the TPGs practice) than hits.

 

+1
Win!

 

Looks like a 64. The details don't show as much as a 65-67

 

Dick I think it's a 64 but I am assuming NGC gave it a 65.

 

Those scratches are too noticeable 63 !!

 

Since your the second person to think those are post minting scratches on the shoulder/bust area, I'm going to educate.

Those are on the planchet. That area is one of the high points of the design for the Lincoln wheat series. When there's not enough strike pressure, i.e. the dies are spaced too far apart, there will be a scratchiness in that area. As a consequence of this you will also often see the O in ONE on the reverse is not fully struck. When you see Lincoln with a lot of scrathiness in that area, the top of the O will typically be very weak. It is for this very reason that the mint lowered the relief in that area on the die down the road.

 

Thank you. I knew at some point I'd get educated about this, and it makes perfect sense.