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Another interesting buffalo nickel to grade, an 1918/7-d

BUFFNIXXBUFFNIXX Posts: 2,719 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Take a stab at grading this 1918/17d buffalo nickel. Results posted later.

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

    vg 8/10?

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  • kazkaz Posts: 9,218 ✭✭✭✭✭

    G-04?

  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,493 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A VG-8 with environmental damage.

    Pete

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  • DollarAfterDollarDollarAfterDollar Posts: 3,215 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Good 6

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  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,701 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would give it a technical grade of Good-6 but it is sorely lacking eye appeal.

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,416 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Good-6

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  • jesbrokenjesbroken Posts: 10,134 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Can't imagine better than AG03.
    Jim


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  • amwldcoinamwldcoin Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    How about a YUCK! :#

  • OmegaraptorOmegaraptor Posts: 541 ✭✭✭✭✭

    VG details, ugly

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  • fathomfathom Posts: 1,776 ✭✭✭✭✭

    VG10

  • MarkInDavisMarkInDavis Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭✭

    G04

    image Respectfully, Mark
  • pursuitoflibertypursuitofliberty Posts: 7,099 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Late die state so probably a better "technical grade" than many are guessing. Maybe VG8?

    Probably looks better in hand than these images (maybe I'm wrong??) which seem VERY washed out and overexposed.


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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,654 ✭✭✭✭✭

    G4 fugjy

  • 1Bufffan1Bufffan Posts: 654 ✭✭✭✭

    G6 has just a little meat on it but well used!

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks like a G6 to me.... Really worn... Cheers, RickO

  • ChrisH821ChrisH821 Posts: 6,570 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Somewhere in the G range

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  • TPRCTPRC Posts: 3,805 ✭✭✭✭✭

    G6 OR CORRODED, CAN'T TELL

    Tom

  • BUFFNIXXBUFFNIXX Posts: 2,719 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 14, 2022 5:26PM

    Here is the slab in which this coin now reposes.
    Hard for me to believe the grade on the holder for sure!
    just seems way to weak for this grade


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  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,493 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 21, 2022 8:21AM

    They are judging their grade based on the amount of visible horn, which is around F-12 on the coin. The date is also full.

    I knocked a little off my guess because it is just so darn ugly.

    Pete (edited)

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  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 13,998 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It’s in an ICG holder so all bets are off. I’m late to the party but I too would have graded it G-4. No way ICG got this one right. F-15 is laughable.

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  • ChrisH821ChrisH821 Posts: 6,570 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Those images are way overexposed. Here it is after just a quick open and auto-level.

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  • ChrisH821ChrisH821 Posts: 6,570 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The reverse

    I'm betting it looks much more like this than those other pictures

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  • amwldcoinamwldcoin Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ChrisH821 said:
    The reverse

    I'm betting it looks much more like this than those other pictures

    But Ugly either way and should be in a details holder!

  • BUFFNIXXBUFFNIXX Posts: 2,719 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @amwldcoin said:

    @ChrisH821 said:
    The reverse

    I'm betting it looks much more like this than those other pictures

    But Ugly either way and should be in a details holder!

    What would be the reason for a detail holder? Cleaning? Environmental damage? or??

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  • amwldcoinamwldcoin Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BUFFNIXX said:

    @amwldcoin said:

    @ChrisH821 said:
    The reverse

    I'm betting it looks much more like this than those other pictures

    But Ugly either way and should be in a details holder!

    What would be the reason for a detail holder? Cleaning? Environmental damage? or??

    At least both from the picture!

  • thebeavthebeav Posts: 3,807 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I know where I'm sending my overdate Buff's !

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  • gumby1234gumby1234 Posts: 5,591 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Late to the party but was thinking good 4 and ugly.

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