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Gold Dollars are Tough to Photograph

ilmcoinsilmcoins Posts: 525 ✭✭✭✭
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At least this slabbed one is for me.... anyone care to guess what SEGS graded this one?







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  • LanceNewmanOCCLanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭

    3?

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  • TurtleCatTurtleCat Posts: 4,583 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Light diffusion and white balance will make those a whole lot easier to photograph. It’s difficult to judge the surfaces here and I don’t know SEGS grading style very well. Knowing this can be very wrong I’ll say 64.

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 44,829 ✭✭✭✭✭

    MS64PL

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  • Mr_SpudMr_Spud Posts: 3,963 ✭✭✭✭✭

    63

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  • habaracahabaraca Posts: 1,914 ✭✭✭✭✭

    details something

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Strange pictures.... discounting color, which I would believe is due to lighting... Likely a 64....Cheers, RickO

  • ilmcoinsilmcoins Posts: 525 ✭✭✭✭

    Great guesses you all even with poor photos.

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,022 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 20, 2022 6:41AM

    I'd say SEGS got it right. Here's one that PCGS graded MS-63.

    Part of your photography problem might be with the SEGS slab plastic. If you have even tried to break out a SEGS coin, you are in for a tussle. It's the hardest slab plastic I have ever seen.

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  • TurtleCatTurtleCat Posts: 4,583 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think 63 is a good grade. Here is my 64. I think it would go PL if resubmitted. I was mostly comparing yours to mine when I was guessing.

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,022 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A great many of the gold dollars from the 1880s have a P-L look to them. I think that coin has to sing, dance and win the lottery to get a P-L from that era.

    This is not P-L

    Neither is this, and it only made MS-65!

    And this.

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