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<p>[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 3635565, member: 15309"]So much for starting us off easy Jason. This coin is extremely hard to grade from photos. My initial impression from the top of the eagles wings and the hair is that there is just the slightest touch of high point friction and that the coin is AU58. But I looked and didn’t see any area of the fields that appears to have friction which is what the TPGs require for AU grades. There is a dark area to the right of the portrait but that looks like a shadow, not friction. There is a dark area to the left between the hair ribbon and cap but that creeps up on the devices and looks like a stain. The flatness of the talon holding the arrows is strike weakness, and like the obverse, I see no friction in the reverse fields.</p><p><br /></p><p>So after concluding that my gut instinct is wrong, then I have to assign an mint state grade. The coin is pretty clean and has near gem surfaces, but the coin has also been dipped at some point and Heritage’s photos do nothing to show us the luster profile of the coin. If the luster is impaired by the dip, the coin could net grade MS62. If the luster is full, it would grade MS64. And if my first instinct was right, it is an AU64.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since these are just examples chosen and price paid isn’t an issue, im saying that the shadows are indicators of good luster and the coin grades MS64.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 3635565, member: 15309"]So much for starting us off easy Jason. This coin is extremely hard to grade from photos. My initial impression from the top of the eagles wings and the hair is that there is just the slightest touch of high point friction and that the coin is AU58. But I looked and didn’t see any area of the fields that appears to have friction which is what the TPGs require for AU grades. There is a dark area to the right of the portrait but that looks like a shadow, not friction. There is a dark area to the left between the hair ribbon and cap but that creeps up on the devices and looks like a stain. The flatness of the talon holding the arrows is strike weakness, and like the obverse, I see no friction in the reverse fields. So after concluding that my gut instinct is wrong, then I have to assign an mint state grade. The coin is pretty clean and has near gem surfaces, but the coin has also been dipped at some point and Heritage’s photos do nothing to show us the luster profile of the coin. If the luster is impaired by the dip, the coin could net grade MS62. If the luster is full, it would grade MS64. And if my first instinct was right, it is an AU64. Since these are just examples chosen and price paid isn’t an issue, im saying that the shadows are indicators of good luster and the coin grades MS64.[/QUOTE]
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