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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Barberian, post: 24683461, member: 24442&quot;]Some recent raw SLH purchases.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1882 VF25-ish</b> - a very dark, lightly polished eBay coin that shows very nice color, probably as a result of the polishing. I decided that I liked the coin and don&#039;t care whether it will straight-grade or not, so I kept it.&nbsp; One can see in the photo I was trying to manipulate the color to approximate the coin in hand, which was difficult to do with this coin.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1574713[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the seller&#039;s photo showing some of its color.&nbsp; The reverse has beautiful color, but one cannot tell from either the seller&#039;s photos or my scans.&nbsp; If I can take a good photo of this coin, I could easily sell this for &gt;50% more than what I paid for it IF it straight grades.&nbsp; The question is how much polishing will the TPGs tolerate?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1574718[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>1888 impaired PR58(?)</b> - This caught my eye at Larry Briggs &quot;Wide World of Seated Coins&quot; at Summer FUN.&nbsp; I believe it&#039;s an impaired proof because of its mirror surfaces and hammered dentils.&nbsp; It has very light hairlining that shows as a white haze on the coin&#039;s obverse fields, as well as some small corrosion spots on the reverse (above T in UNITED, and above the E in STATES).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1574715[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I also purchased an ICG VG10 1842-O small date with F15-VF20 wear (&quot;LIB.RTY,&quot; VF detail on wings).&nbsp; I don&#039;t have a scan or photo.&nbsp; It&#039;s an old, brown, leathery WB-1, which did not strike up well on the eagle.&nbsp; Examining it now, I see a small cupric salt crystal on the T in UNITED, so it&#039;s been in a corrosive environment, but I don&#039;t see any other evidence of corrosion like surface granularity or pitting.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been hammering away on the SLHs for 17 years now, trying to assemble a set from raw coins on eBay, and taking a few gambles along the way to reduce cost.&nbsp; Some gambles paid off, such as the raw, original 1874-CC that graded with PCGS at G6, and also turned out to be a WB-1, the rarest of the three DMs at R6.&nbsp; Some didn&#039;t, such as the 55-S with EF details that looks like a polished charcoal briquette. This 42-O SD is one of those risks taken (as well as the 82 and 88) as I hope to cross it with PCGS.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Only three coins to go for a full set, and one of them (1879) is &quot;easy.&quot;&nbsp; If I can sneak a 78-S purchase past the girlfriend, I&#039;ll be in the clear![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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