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<p>[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 7928156, member: 15309"]Alright, it is time for the reveal, and nobody got both coins correct.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin #1</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/t9SRFkA.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Coin #2</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/SEgIk3r.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The reason for this little exercise is because Coin #1 was part of most recent submission while Coin #2 was from a submission last year and resided in my registry set. I was expecting an MS66 5FS grade from NGC and was going to bump the PCGS coin from registry. To my eye, the reverse of Coin #1 is an MS67 with clear 5FS all day long. The toning affords a level of eye appeal that Coin #2 simply doesn't have, and I think Coin #1 is clearly the superior coin. But NGC threw a monkey wrench into my plans when they were punitive in their grading, by allowing the admittedly MS65 obverse to control the overall grade of the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>But like most of the respondents of this thread, I simply like Coin #1 better and I don't care that it is graded lower, it is going to represent the Atlantic City Set of Jefferson Nickels.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 7928156, member: 15309"]Alright, it is time for the reveal, and nobody got both coins correct. Coin #1 [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/t9SRFkA.jpg[/IMG] Coin #2 [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/SEgIk3r.jpg[/IMG] The reason for this little exercise is because Coin #1 was part of most recent submission while Coin #2 was from a submission last year and resided in my registry set. I was expecting an MS66 5FS grade from NGC and was going to bump the PCGS coin from registry. To my eye, the reverse of Coin #1 is an MS67 with clear 5FS all day long. The toning affords a level of eye appeal that Coin #2 simply doesn't have, and I think Coin #1 is clearly the superior coin. But NGC threw a monkey wrench into my plans when they were punitive in their grading, by allowing the admittedly MS65 obverse to control the overall grade of the coin. But like most of the respondents of this thread, I simply like Coin #1 better and I don't care that it is graded lower, it is going to represent the Atlantic City Set of Jefferson Nickels.[/QUOTE]
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