*** Grades Posted *** GTG - 3 coins again. Happy New Year!
BryceM
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Scroll down to post 32 or so to see the grades and my comments.
Well, it turns out I have quite a few coin photos floating around my hard drive. It should be easy to do several more of these. Here's a nice mix of clad, silver, and gold. Some of these I don't own anymore. Again, all three of these coins are in PCGS plastic, all of them in some version of the blue-label holder. One hint - the Susie doesn't have a sticker. 
These are my photos, and these three were shot a few years ago, possibly before my photo technique was as polished as it is now. They should be reasonably consistent though.
Guess the assigned grades.
Enjoy, and good luck!
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65
64
55
I can't really grade clad, but the marks on the portrait of the SBA make me think 65 max. I'd bean the other two at the grades above. Attractive coins and superb photography, as usual.
Oh, man ... gotta try
SBA is a 66 (this would be a WAG)
Peace is a 65 (and OMG is she gorgeous!)
and the Princess is a 58+ ('cause I think I see real rub, but she is beautiful, and is an "AU64" if she's in an AU holder)
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66
64+
58
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65,65,58.
Coin Junkie beat me to it.
65
64
55
66
65
58
65,65, 58. really like that $3!
64
64
63
64
64
55
65
64
58
67
64+
55
peacockcoins
65,64,58
65, 65, and 58
Louis Armstrong
64
64
55
66
65
55
Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value. Zero. Voltaire. Ebay coinbowlllc
I'm late to the party so won't make a guess... but that Peace $ is gorgeous!
65,64,55
66
63
55
66
64
58
The guesses are a lot tighter than in previous threads. They're mostly pretty good guesses too.
I'll post the grades tonight.
Did anyone notice the Wide-Rim variety on the Susie?
65
63
55+
63, 64, 55
The Susie is definitely the near-date variety. Anyone know how many of the 360 million 79-Ps were like this?
Just checked the dozen or so raw examples I have, and 4 were this variety. Hope they're scarcer than that sample would indicate.
66 (wide rim variety
)
65+
55
66
64+ (Incredibly stunning example of this tough one too!)
53
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I'll guess 65+, 63+, and 58+
Very nice coins!
Big fan of that peace dollar
Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry
65
63
58
"There are no called strikes in coin collecting."--
Henry David ThoreauRYK66
64
58
My 1866 Philly Mint Set
66
64
55
65
64
58
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66
65
55
65
65
58
Pretty good guesses this time.
Here they are, with my comments, and a couple supplementary photos.
The Susie B is a typical modernish clad coin. Compared to classic silver, the surfaces seem "hard" and unforgiving. They're also usually a bit more difficult to show well in a photograph. I think this coin is graded correctly, with enough luster and detail to be a strong specimen, but a few hits that prevent anything higher than a gem grade. Most everyone got this within a grade or two, which is pretty remarkable, if you ask me.
This one is a "but for" coin in my book. Key dates are always graded carefully and a tie doesn't usually go to the runner. This is an easy MS65 coin but for the luster graze on THE KEY PART of the coin. Some scrutinize the eagle, but for most people the large, flat cheek is the focal point of the coin. I'm one of those. I like the cheeks of my Peace dollars (that I don't own anymore) to look like this:
Funny, if you re-arrange the lighting angle, the very same coin looks like this. Tricky, tricky:
It's a bit interesting to me that many people said they really like this one. Yeah, OK any MS 34-S dollar is special, but to me, I couldn't stop seeing that thing on the cheek. I eventually sold it, for a small profit IIRC. I've owned a bunch of MS 34-S dollars and all but one involved some sort of compromise. The best one was great, but oh, so expensive.
Most everyone got this right too. I'm a huge fan of this coin. While working on a 12-piece type set, I was walking the line between affordable and eye appeal and this one shouted "buy me!". It is pretty darn nice for a 58, but I don't think most people would be tempted to put it in an MS holder. The coin's luster says AU, with a small bit of very even, very acceptable rub that knocks the liveliness down a notch compared to some others. To find one with so few distractions in an MS grade will have you looking at MS65 specimens that are enormously expensive in comparison. If an AU gold type coin is your quarry, it's darn hard to do any better.
Nice coins in respectable grades.
Yes, the cheek abrasion would BOTHER me to no end on the 1934-S.
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Late to the party...
I would have guessed
6
4+
58