The Details Discount Thread

Winner by being closest to the price. It sold for $24. Everyone went with questionable color, but the details was for a scratch. I wonder if Anacs considered the round counting machine damage on the reverse as "scratched"?

 

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Beefer518 - 6 Points
ron_c - 4 Points
Johndoe2000$ - 4 Points
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KSorbo - 3 Points
ddddd - 3 Points
Pickin and Grinin - 2 Points
IBetASilverDollar - 1 Point
charlietig - 1 Point
jwitten - 1 Point

 

@Johndoe2000$ you're next...

 

Ok guys, and gals...
Your mission, should you choose to accept it...

Here we have a 1794 Liberty Cap Large 1¢...

How much did it sell for???
What is the grade???
Did it straight grade, or details? (If details, why?)


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xf details, env damage. No clue on the value... $350?

 

Fine
Details - porosity
$900

 

$700
XF
Details - Environmental Damage

 

AU Details - Corroded - $1,750

I could see this being in a straight graded holder too based on different standards for such coins.

 

VF details, corroded
$345

 

I'm going to go totally out on a limb and say that it straight graded XF40. I'm basing that off the wear pattern. The wear on the high points is smooth, not porous like the rest of the surfaces. That suggests the planchet was porous when minted versus later corrosion. As for the price I have no clue, 1200?

 

Fine, $360

 

Or, possibility of the die being rusty to begin with. The wear spots are somewhat smooth.

Or, maybe, it was lost and being in the ground for years, it was then found, corroded, of course by then, and then used in circulation.

Interesting. Makes you rub your chin and say Hmmmm.

 

Would you help me understand what is meant when a coin is described as porous? Thanks.

 

It kind of has a sponge looking surface, or a surface like the moon. Dunno if either of those helps.

 

I would add ... think of porous skin???

Anyway, I'll do the reveal around 7:00 pm central, so get your info in. (If i can remember)

 

I hope this is self-explanatory.

 

2 hours more, sorry.

 

I'll post the coin and price real quick.

The coin sold for $1348.90
and the rest...

 

Thanks, all who answered my question about porous. A seller describes his coin as porous —and cleaned — in his title... maybe his pictures just aren't as good as @RonSanderson 's, but I am enamored of its detail on the obverse and willing to overlook the cleaning. I'm hoping his auction ends without a bid. The reverse, BTW is not so good looking.

 

I believe you were the closest to the correct sale price.
So unless I'm wrong, you get the point, and you are up...