GTG - 1893-CC Double Eagle, grade posted
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The area beneath the neck, above and below the date hurt this one. I think it gets a 50 on its best day. Our hosts were probably at EF45.
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If it were a common date, I would grade it "melt".
But a CC will likely make it desirable to someone.
I have a hard time calling it anything higher than AU53 due to the negative eye appeal...so I'll go 53. (But on wear alone, it might go 58, and maybe someone even decided to slip it into the MS realm, depending on what CC coins actually exist(?) )
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Not my area of even pretended expertise....so I'm prepared to be surprised, in either direction.
XF45
53.
AU-53
Here’s mine for comparison purposes...
1893-CC $20 Liberty Double Eagle - PCGS AU-58
Stuart
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AU 50
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55
50/55 the reverse better. If this goes above 53 that IMO would be problematic. Just way too much action & friction, etc.
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XF45... IMO.... But it is CC gold.... I would consider it if the price were right...and by right, I mean bargain level.
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AU58
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im in the au 5o camp. fwiw
53
50, but I could see a 53.
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Here is another image of the same coin. It is part of the Fairmont collection...
I would have said 58. Actually much less cheek rub than Stewart's AU53 which has stunning eye appeal for the grade....looks closer to 55. So a technical AU55 on the OP's coin seems right on the money. CC's will be baggy and scruffy up to the MS63 grade. It's all about the rub....especially on the cheek and major obv fields. A CAC55 is essentially a generic 58. It doesn't help when many of these have stacking friction up to the MS63/64/65 grades.
@roadrunner - To clarify the record my post earlier in this thread was guessing the grade of the OP’s coin as AU-53.
The comparison coin photo that I posted is a PCGS AU-58.
Stuart
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Sorry Stewart. I saw the AU53 at the start of your post and assumed that was the grade. In any event I liked the coin a lot. So 58 doesn't surprise me. The cheek has considerable rub but the rest of the coin looked essentially mint state. Very nice coin.
@roadrunner Thanks for your kind words about my 1893-CC $20 Liberty.👍
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Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
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