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<p>[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 26031398, member: 76194"]I will begin by saying that I've never been a particularly huge fan of flying eagle cents, sorry, but I still wanted to add one eventually to my collection for the sake of completeness. I found one fairly budget, below, which I will say it's straight graded by PCCS. I wont list the grade as I welcome any people who want to take a stab at it without pre-bias, though I will say I think PCGS was a little generous with their grade....it's ok, I didn't pay much for this example.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1655229[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>But that's not my question really, my question has more to do with the unevenness of the lettering and the faint one. Was this a recurring problem with these, or his mine just particularly.....how shall we put it, odd?</p><p><br /></p><p>Would you classify it as an uneven strike? Die wear? Grease on die? Just curious what you folks think of it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 26031398, member: 76194"]I will begin by saying that I've never been a particularly huge fan of flying eagle cents, sorry, but I still wanted to add one eventually to my collection for the sake of completeness. I found one fairly budget, below, which I will say it's straight graded by PCCS. I wont list the grade as I welcome any people who want to take a stab at it without pre-bias, though I will say I think PCGS was a little generous with their grade....it's ok, I didn't pay much for this example. [ATTACH=full]1655229[/ATTACH] But that's not my question really, my question has more to do with the unevenness of the lettering and the faint one. Was this a recurring problem with these, or his mine just particularly.....how shall we put it, odd? Would you classify it as an uneven strike? Die wear? Grease on die? Just curious what you folks think of it.[/QUOTE]
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