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<p>[QUOTE="Cincimatti, post: 26414900, member: 16004"]Well, as the coin's current handler, I <i>want </i>to believe, so I'm useless in this debate! LOL!</p><p><br /></p><p>To me, IGWT is almost exclusively mushy, save for the terminal US. But, with my sexagenarian eyesight, so is just about everything else too these days. Hard to tell with the degree of wear. Do I get to grade this a VF? Will we agree on that grade? We already know the early 20s were rough for branch minted cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>I intentionally put the coin in a square cardboard flip to most accurately and objectively gauge the rotation. I put an overlay on it and came up with some 12° after rotating the merged image in photo-shop. Does that fall somewhere within the scale of the numismatic terms of "a bit", "a little", "a lot", "somewhat", and "Holy COW!"?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1685342[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You mention "wavy", and I don't understand that term. How did you hit upon that observation? I'm curious.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Cincimatti, post: 26414900, member: 16004"]Well, as the coin's current handler, I [I]want [/I]to believe, so I'm useless in this debate! LOL! To me, IGWT is almost exclusively mushy, save for the terminal US. But, with my sexagenarian eyesight, so is just about everything else too these days. Hard to tell with the degree of wear. Do I get to grade this a VF? Will we agree on that grade? We already know the early 20s were rough for branch minted cents. I intentionally put the coin in a square cardboard flip to most accurately and objectively gauge the rotation. I put an overlay on it and came up with some 12° after rotating the merged image in photo-shop. Does that fall somewhere within the scale of the numismatic terms of "a bit", "a little", "a lot", "somewhat", and "Holy COW!"? [ATTACH=full]1685342[/ATTACH] You mention "wavy", and I don't understand that term. How did you hit upon that observation? I'm curious.[/QUOTE]
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