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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 8105392, member: 77413&quot;]For those who have asked about value, PCGS shows $22 for the value if AU58, up to $125 if it is really MS65.</p><p><br /></p><p>At AU58, the cost of grading / slabbing is about the value of the coin. If sold after that, you are basically taking the value of the coin and giving it straight to the graders. You would be left with no coin and no money!</p><p><br /></p><p>You should be really sure this is going to be worth grading. That’s hard to do unless you are very skilled at grading Buffaloes, and they are widely considered in this forum to be difficult.</p><p><br /></p><p>They are struck on a hard metal with high relief, so the highest points are often flattened because the metal just doesn’t flow up there. Those are the same points that would suffer rub first. So you have to be really confident that the unstruck rough spots (which are really the raw surface of the planchet showing through the strike) can be be distinguished from rub or wear from handling.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’m not good at that. To get accurate assessments from the members here, you would need really excellent lighting and photos of those tough areas.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here’s an example. (You may want to enlarge the animation.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Is the horn a little flat because the strike did not fill the die at that spot, or is it flat because it was handled a bit. How much handling would it take to flatten it? How quickly does handling leave any kind of mark on nickel? And what other signs would the handling leave?</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe it was struck a bit flat, and then handled too. What change in reflectivity or luster would that make on the horn, and where else would there be signs of it? And what about the shoulder? Does it look handled, or is it just dull because it is the original surface of the planchet, which was never forced fully up into the recess of the die?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1409787[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1409803[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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