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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Catbert, post: 405795, member: 12718&quot;]OK - as some of you have read on my Fugio thread in the U.S. Coin Forum, I bought one of these coins recently :hail:. My coin was graded by PCGS as a VF25. I would like to post another Fugio graded the same by PCGS and point out the tremendous inconsistency between the two coins. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Now, some footnotes. My comparison is only between two coins and thus does not substantiate a trend. Secondly, I do think colonial era coins have probably gotten more leeway in grading versus newer coins. Nonetheless, this example was bothersome to me.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here the dealer&#039;s PCGS VF25 (club rays variety, R4). I would guess it was minted in a later die stage like mine:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh297/IndianaCatbert/1787%20Fugio%20Copper/CROFugioVF25-1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh297/IndianaCatbert/1787%20Fugio%20Copper/CROFugioVF25Reverse-1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here is my VF25:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh297/IndianaCatbert/1787%20Fugio%20Copper/FugioCloseup.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Can you see the differences between the two coins? As you&#039;ve surely heard ad naseum, &quot;buy the coin not the slab.&quot; One would think that in lower grades, more grading consistency would occur versus the uncirculated levels.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Do you have examples to share showing similar inconsistency? Comments?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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