PCGS Calendar - what a joke!

Got my PCGS 2017 calendar the other day. Cover photo was a shock. Sure, it's a rare and desirable coin no doubt. But then I read the description... AU50!!!!!???? I don't care what grading standards you want to make up for a coin like this, but it's a VF25 Details Cleaned and no more! Semi-prooflike fields and hints of coppery toning? LOL!!!!!! No wonder I don't trust these TPGs.

 

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Whats the cert number for it, mine hasnt come yet

 

Contact @messydesk for one of his calendars. Its much better imo. He only has 2 left so hurry up and send him a message or email if you want one!

 

526986.50/333519349

 

You have an extra 3 in the number, it's 33519349

 

There are definitely 3 3's in the photo in the calendar.

 

Sold out again. The two have been claimed, and I probably won't be ordering more.

Regarding the Wass Molitor coin referred to earlier, you can't grade these like you would grade a $20 Lib. The detail the coin had when struck was totally different. They have to go on remaining luster and how widespread the wear on the coin is.

Coincidentally, I put an 1852 $10 WM on my calendar this year, as well. I can't find the grade, but I assume it is XF-AU based on where the detail is sharpest, even though the reverse looks like VF if you're only looking at detail.

 

messydesk, your coin looks much nicer than the one on PCGS calendar. I understand there is a difference with the striking quality and all, still their coin looks plenty circulated, AU is a joke in my estimation.

 

The carter coin just had a weak strike. The detail was never there to wear off

 

I got my PCGS calendar Thursday. Took less than a minute to look at it and throw it in the garbage.

 

I didn't get one yet, so I bought a Strasburg Railroad calendar.

 

+1 he does great calendars.

 

Well the calendar is wrong or the PCGS website is wrong.

http://www.pcgs.com/cert/33519349

 

What research there is available tends to make one think that full strikes are not really a goal for these coins. Here's a similar (but not identical) coin:

https://coins.ha.com/itm/territoria...ed-unique/a/1204-5445.s?hdnJumpToLot=1x=0&y=0

A point to be noted for both this and the OP coin is the completeness of the stars and peripheral lettering on the reverse. Contrasted with the weakness of the centers, a reasonable numismatist would question what they were seeing regardless of issue-specific knowledge.

 

I'll be darned, you're right. See what I get for posting before my first cup of coffee?

Radically different imaging, but that should be no excuse for me.

 

I think AU50 for that issue is a reasonable grade. I remember those trading for $2500-$3000 at my first ANA show. I had driven 6500 miles to attend, had almost $1000 to spend made from pumping gas @$2 hour.

I bought an 1800 Bust dollar, a 1909 S Indian cent and a 1922 plain Lincoln cent. I believe there was a fourth coin but I can't remember what it was. Maybe an '08 S Indian. I still have the previous three. I sold the 1909 Indian and the 1922 plain several times and they have come back to me after the death of their owners.

Geesh but I never, ever thought I would make it this long!

 

They want to move those calendars like they know what they're doing put the PCGS girls in there...

 

6500 miles? Round trip, I hope, because even if you were working North Slope oil fields and the show was in southern Florida, you're still 1000 miles short unless you got lost reeeeally bad.