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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 445023, member: 2972&quot;]Was hoping Scrooge would weigh in and call it a skudzy PO-1, but c&#039;est la vie.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>ANACS graded the coin &quot;VG 8 Details, Corroded&quot;.</b>&nbsp; Although I can&#039;t dispute the coins does have some pitting, I think ANACS was a bit hard on the coin, and it should have been put in a silently net graded 6 or 8 holder.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The coin&#039;s color and eye appeal are what instantly drew me to the coin.&nbsp; For those of you who have been paying attention to my posts over the years, that&#039;s generally how I buy coins, and this was no exception.&nbsp; The fact that the coin was in a &quot;problem&quot; holder, with a &quot;problem&quot; price didn&#039;t hurt either. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I purchased the coin from Shawn Yancey who stated in his description that the coin wasn&#039;t corroded.&nbsp; While I&#039;ll stop short of that assessment -- there is clearly some minor pitting present on both sides -- to me it is more than made up for by the coin&#039;s eye appeal.&nbsp; It just has wonderful color and a great deal of obverse detail for a &quot;VG 8&quot; coin, much less one net graded lower.</p><p><br /></p><p>To me the lesson to be learned here is just because a coin is in a &quot;problem&quot; holder, doesn&#039;t mean the coin can&#039;t be desireable or attractive.&nbsp; Had this coin been in a problem-free PCGS holder it would have been priced at twice what I paid for the coin, and quite frankly, I prefer this coin over most of the VG PCGS coins I&#039;ve seen over the years (including my last liberty cap, which ended up in a PCGS VF 30 holder and cost me five times what this coin did) and it wouldn&#039;t surprise me in the least if this made it into NGC or PCGS problem-free slab one day.&nbsp; REMEMBER -- BUY THE COIN NOT THE HOLDER.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, thanks to all for their guesses and comments (and please feel free to keep them coming!), and I hope you enjoyed the thread....Mike[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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