Legend 10-point Color Scale Grading Set

Zoins

I love toned coins and rating coins.

I've been excited about Legend's 10 point color scale for some time and wanted to create a grading set for each of the grades.

Here are some specimens. I hope we can build up a full set from 1 to 10!

I rank “off the charts” above “10+” as the first seems farther away from 10 than the latter, though it may certainly be lower than "100".

100

Laura wrote:
We rank this coin 100 on our 1-10 color scale (10 is the best). Yes, we rank it that high because in our opinion, the colors are out of this world perfect!

• Lot: https://legendauctions.hibid.com/lot/28550168/-1-1879-s--pcgs-ms67-cac-northern-lights
• Cert: https://www.pcgs.com/cert/33533829

Off the Charts

Laura wrote:
This coin's colors rate off the charts on our 10-point color scale.

11

Laura wrote:
We rank the colors on this coin an 11 (yes an 11)-on our 1-10 color scale (10 is the best).

• Lot: https://legendauctions.hibid.com/lot/31396429/-1-1879-s-pcgs-ms67--cac-northern-lights

10+

Laura wrote:
We rank the colors a 10+ on our 1-10 color scale we used for our North Lights coins.

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ricko

Unbelievable..... Cheers, RickO

Hydrant

Interesting.

bolivarshagnasty

TDN's color chart is overly optimistic for the 8.0 to 9.5 range. Just look through AB's set at NGC to get a idea of a range of top Morgans. Most of TDN's postings would be pushed down to 5.0 to 7.5 range IMO.

johnny9434

Fugly toned coin here, not for me, byeeee

david3142

@bolivarshagnasty said:
TDN's color chart is overly optimistic for the 8.0 to 9.5 range. Just look through AB's set at NGC to get a idea of a range of top Morgans. Most of TDN's postings would be pushed down to 5.0 to 7.5 range IMO.

Or consider that on a scale from 1-10, Wayne’s Morgans generally rate between 11 and 100. 😆

Broadstruck

Sorry to say but some of those high ranking ones are fugly or look terminally toned.

tradedollarnut

@bolivarshagnasty said:
TDN's color chart is overly optimistic for the 8.0 to 9.5 range. Just look through AB's set at NGC to get a idea of a range of top Morgans. Most of TDN's postings would be pushed down to 5.0 to 7.5 range IMO.

Not my chart - those are actual Laura ratings from past Legend auctions

tradedollarnut

@Broadstruck said:
Sorry to say but some of those high ranking ones are fugly or look terminally toned.

I’d take the rating over the picture any day

U1chicago

@bolivarshagnasty said:
TDN's color chart is overly optimistic for the 8.0 to 9.5 range. Just look through AB's set at NGC to get a idea of a range of top Morgans. Most of TDN's postings would be pushed down to 5.0 to 7.5 range IMO.

I agree that there was a big drop and it wasn’t very representative of a good scale. The best I’ve seen is still on the Jhone Cash website (I believe from @poorguy …I can’t recall his new username on here). There were no numbers but it did a solid job of ranking from low end to monster.

http://www.jhonecash.com/coins/tonedmorgans.asp

Kyle

The 7.5+ and 8.0 both look like fairly generic toners. I'd hate to see what a 5.0 looks like on this scale.

ms70

Anytime I see purple on a coin I'm suspicious.

tradedollarnut

@Kyle said:
The 7.5+ and 8.0 both look like fairly generic toners. I'd hate to see what a 5.0 looks like on this scale.

There is no 5 on her scale. I’m fairly certain it’s the same as her coin rating scale - anything below 7 is dreck. 7 is commercial quality, 8 is acceptable and starting at 9 it’s high end.

Zoins

Great finds @tradedollarnut !

I’ve added the 100 coin to the OP and I’m looking up the other TrueViews to add.

Cougar1978

Interesting

Guy I know that sets up mentioned using it to price his toners like if the scale is x premium factor is y.

fathom

Every long term seller of coins has had an AT toner in inventory that has sold as NT unintentionally.

Wild color similarities or differentiation do not prove they are toned naturally or accelerated.

The greatest graders in the greatest TPGs cannot be sure consistently.

Therefore the marketplace and market makers should tone down enthusiasm, no reason for heads to explode.