New Canadian purchase **UPDATE**
ajaan
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Being stuck at home most of the day, we do go out to for walks, supermarket, etc. gives me way too much time to search through eBay. I came across this Canadian Cased Dollar. The 1972 is my favorite year for toning, so I figured what the heck, I'll place a bid. I won. With shipping and NYS tax it cost me less than it would for grading. If the coin looks like the Trueview, I'll be very happy.
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CU #3245 B.N.A. #428
Don
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very nice purchase..
Pretty!
Nice toning.
A rip! What did PC grade it?
Found this in my drawer the other day ...
Nice one. I have several with beautiful toning on one side only and ugly (to my eye) on the other.
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To me the grade isn't as important as the color.
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Don
Nice looking example. 👍
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The coin came today. I'm usually a huge fan of Phil's Trueview images, especially the ones from his home country, but they were way off on this coin.
In person the coin is a lot darker and less colorful. The TrueView makes the coin look 9/10 on the ajaan color scale, in person the coin is 5/10.
Although my imaging skills suck, my image is much closer to how the coin actually looks.
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Don
I've had a few of these and, in my opinion, the issue might be two-fold. One problem is that many of these are quite PL and the colors only "pop" at certain angles, which makes getting a universally accurate photo impossible. The other issue is that PCGS sometimes allows submitters to request certain attributes to be highlighted, or to be brought out better, on a coin sent for TrueView and in this case that may have happened.
My gut feeling is that the former is more the reason and much less likely the latter.
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Yeah, TrueView is a glamour shot,a special angle among hundreds, and it creates an unrealistic vieew, especially on toned silver and copper coins.
I believe that with time you are going to like it more Don, the Trueview has had a negative effect, ie unreal expectations. Or if this doesn’t happen, you flip it. You are by far the most experienced guy here with these cased dollars, I used to buy some from you at the BST thread for... $6 plus $2.50 for shipping, somewhere in... 2004-2005. Remember?
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Those were the days D.
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Don
it's a shame when expert people play with color to make a not so attractive coin extremely eye appealing.
on the other hand, they will negative grade a "not so sure cleaning" in their opinion, which perhaps never was a cleaning.
Personally I think it is not fair that a TPG could be influenced to change a color and it should not happen. Everything should be equal under the same guidelines.