Guess the grade #57

1947-d NGC slabbed

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first glance a 66 but voted a MS-67...nice red color

 

i've read a few of your past guess the grade threads and it looks like fun! Now, dont laugh too hard, i'm bran spankin new to grading coins, but i'm learning!

anyways, based on previous grades i would take a guess at 67. Comparing it to #54, It appears to have less marks on the obverse, but more on the reverse; so i'm going to guess the same, MS67 grade.

 

I am not laughing at all. That is probably the biggest reason I am doing any of this.

 

it's a lot of fun, and a good learning tool for us noobies!

 

Wanted to say MS65 but will go with MS66. TC

 

67

 

man,, tough one. gut instantly said 66 so would normally go 67, but I can't get around that spot on the obv.. so it stays 66. still, this is an outstanding coin,, virtually mark free and nice full strike imo...

 

I agree - the only thing I questions is full strike. Maybe it is the picture, but to me the left wheat lines do not look as well struck as the right. Still another nice coin, when I first saw half the coin I thought ooooh a 67, blew up the picture and said dam. The spot just drew me away from the rest of the coin.

 

huh,, I missed that. Between trying to find a single nick on this puppy and not finding one, and then seeing the complete O in one with only slight reduction of bust on the obv, I totally overlooked it. But yeah,, I see it too... hard to say if it's the pic or if the top left wheat is weak, but i like my 66 better now. Good eye mark.

 

63+2= MS65 RED

The spot drops it 2 points IMHO.

 

Obverse shows what appears do be a slight ding....?? dont know how that would affect the over all
Grade??

 

The obverse carbon spot held it back IMO.

 

66i mho

 

I agree that the spot held this back,, or should have. Coin's like Bo Derek with an eraser sized wart on her eyelid... still nice to look at, but ya don't say wow until until you flip it over :devil::devil:..... and 67's should make ya want to say wow !

 

It's a D mint from the 40's. They aren't fully struck, and I gotta tell you this is a very nice strike for the issue, IMO.

As for the spot, I'll wager it wasn't as big when the coin was slabbed -- or at least that was the thinking when I graded it a 67.

Time will tell.

 

And that is the best reason to at least read these guess the grades even if you do not participate. Learn something new.

 

p.s. this is the first coin I can recall in RLM's series with a full "O" in "ONE", and a relative lack of planchet marks in the O and corresponding shoulder on the obverse -- again confirming a relatively strong strike on an older die.

 

This one and http://www.cointalk.com/t125205/ will be ending tomorrow.