Nearly Flawless Love for SLQ

Chris

i agree 100% percent but you are LATE to this party.

ruben

 

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Understood. Had an unfortunate event called a holiday this weekend interrupt my coin bashing action.

Hopefully Doug was around to throw some darts.

 

Both coins are BEAUTIFUL.

 

I agree with this statement almost 100%. The only time I disagree is when a particular date/MM is notorious for a poor strike. For example, I would be a little more accepting of a less than full strike for a 1892-O Morgan Dollar. When I do pick up a nice example...I will look for a coin with a good strike for that issue, but it probably won't hold a candle to an average 1880-S.

 

Understood. My basic issue is why shoudl coins like a 92-O ever receive a grade higher than a 63 if the strikes are so poor? Nothing wrong with actually grading coins based upon details remaining, knowing some issues will never grade highly. There is no commandment from God dictating any series should be possible to collect all 65's on. In ancients some coins left the mint in VF grade. There is nothing wrong with that. We all know it and buy what we like, not worrying about if the coin was a "weak strike", or "worn dies". TODAY, it is a VF, it may have only ever BEEN a VF, but we don't care.

Seems a lot cleaner IMO. "Weak strike", "worn dies", while interesting, seem to me a seller excuse for a poor condition coin. No thanks.

 

Significant, no, and what is there could not be better concealed. Even with how clean the obverse is, I still would like to see a cleaner reverse for a 66 - assuming full luster is present. It may have made more sense had I worded my post correctly and said "higher than a 65" instead of "as a 65".

 

with that reverse i wouldn't give it more than a 64. The whole backside is scratched up.

 

To me the 1917 is what a Type 1 should look like , Full heads and shields with full rivets are pretty comman for that year and MM , no collector should settle for anything less as around 80% of '17-P SLQs come with FHs . With a little effort strikes that good are relatively easyto find . This year is an exception rather that the rule as most SLQs come weakly struck .

 

I cannot argue with this, but without seeing it in-hand its tough to pinpoint exactly why the graders gave it a 65. It's in an NGC holder, right?