Will this straight grade? Please help with circulated Jefferson

Aspie_Rocco · April 28, 2020 8:48AM

I got this coin and I am hoping that it will get a straight grade and not end up with details or scratch on the label.
I was hoping you guys could share your expertise and help my poor grading skills. Please help.

messydesk · April 28, 2020 8:56AM

Kind of a heinous scratch, and not well hidden. If it were uncirculated, I'd say definitely a details holder, but since it's circulated, I'll say probably a details holder.

android01 · April 28, 2020 9:00AM

If you're sending it in as a validation of the variety, it doesn't matter if it is a straight grade or details. If the variety is what your saying it is, it should be graded as genuine details, which I'm assuming is what you are trying for.

Aspie_Rocco · April 28, 2020 9:11AM

@android01 said:
If you're sending it in as a validation of the variety, it doesn't matter if it is a straight grade or details. If the variety is what your saying it is, it should be graded as genuine details, which I'm assuming is what you are trying for.

It is the variety, no doubt, but I care more about the grade than attribution. N1 coins do not help my set, and I dislike details slabs. I would rather not have a coin than have a details, particularly for the price of this 1958 before grading.

android01 · April 28, 2020 9:21AM

Understood. In any case, I don't think it will straight grade. The scratch is pretty severe.

amwldcoin · April 28, 2020 9:25AM

I also think it will get a details grade...the scratch just stares you right in the face in the prime focal area of the coin.

ricko · April 29, 2020 4:51AM

I believe that will get a 'details' grade... that scratch is right in the focal area...Cheers, RickO

291fifth · April 29, 2020 6:56AM

The scratch is very visible. It should not be in a straight graded holder.

coinbuf · April 29, 2020 7:44AM

While it should not get a straight grade if it did any potential buyer would look at the coin and go how did you get this straight graded and heavily discount any offer to buy, its in the correct holder now.

JeffersonFrog · April 29, 2020 9:18AM

So Rocco, how've you been? My first reaction was similar to the previous posts. However, I remember a mini-tutorial Mr. Insider gave us a few months ago regarding gradable planchet scratches. In particular, your first picture shows the scratch going "underneath" the hair. If it were a scratch, how is it the hair is not scratched? While circulated, the scratch on your coin is not "shiny" which might also indicate it was a planchet scratch. And finally, if it were a staple-type scratch on the planchet, the appearance of the scratch on the device looks like it is "split open" and has rounded edges. Again, subject to circulation, wouldn't a staple-type scratch have sharper edges?

Anyway, I lean towards it not receiving a grade, but there's enough doubt I would keep asking. Well, actually my wife says I just like being the contrarian. : )

Hope all is well.