I just acquired an 1882 CC Morgan on eBay. Its a great looking coin. Almost no bag marks and frosty. The only concern I have is a small rim dent around 5:30 (under the 2 in the date) on the obverse. Its a small dent but noticeable. If I send this off for grading is it enough to put an otherwise beautiful coin in a bodybag? Do the rims have to be perfect or are small dents acceptable? Attached is a pic from the auction. Its a little hard to see the hit. I'll take a better pic when I get home.
I could be wrong but I don't think a minor rim ding would warrant a body bad. If anything it would only effect the grade.
A small rim ding should not keep a coin out of a holder. If anything it will knock a point or two off. Now if the ding is more of a dent (meaning big), then yeah it will probably keep it out of a holder due to "damage". It seems the rarer and more expensive the coin the more dings/dents it takes to keep it from being holdered. Don't quote me on that, just an observation.
Don't take a chance that it will be body bagged. Lay it on a hard surface and hit it on all edges wth a hammer. This will make the dents all uniform so as to actually improve the looks of the coin. :smile :smile Don't worry about it. Just send it in for grading.
I guess I've gotten a little paranoid reading about other people's problems with grading and rim dings. Problem is, I don't know what kind of dings they're talking about, huge or even minor dings. Here's a closeup pic. Thanks again for the advice.
Bah! I wouldn't worry about that little old thing. I was thinking it was an actual "dent", as in a very deep problem. Sending that in to grade would be a decent idea.
