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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 3554778, member: 101855"]NGC graded a lot of the Eric P. Newman collection liberally also. This ex Newman Vermont portrait copper was in an NGC AU holder when it was sold. When I bought it, it was in a PCGS EF-45 holder.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]944914[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]944915[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>You can only grade this piece by the obverse. The reverse was made intentionally weak by the Machin's Mills people who made the later Vermont coppers. It was also used on one of their counterfeit British half pennies. One of the ways to "palm those coins off" was to make them look circulated. That way it seemed as if other people had accepted them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 3554778, member: 101855"]NGC graded a lot of the Eric P. Newman collection liberally also. This ex Newman Vermont portrait copper was in an NGC AU holder when it was sold. When I bought it, it was in a PCGS EF-45 holder. [ATTACH=full]944914[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]944915[/ATTACH] You can only grade this piece by the obverse. The reverse was made intentionally weak by the Machin's Mills people who made the later Vermont coppers. It was also used on one of their counterfeit British half pennies. One of the ways to "palm those coins off" was to make them look circulated. That way it seemed as if other people had accepted them.[/QUOTE]
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