1799 Bust Dollar Will it straight grade?
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Given yesterday’s discussion of the Flowing Hair dollar G X G ….i am interested to know if this will straight grade? If so, an estimate of grade please?
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Regrettably, it will probably get a details grade for the graffiti below the L of LIBERTY.
Strong no. Looks like 4 places on the obv. have been smoothed. They didn't quite get rid of what they were trying to remove on the left side.
The green look bothers me.
I think there are multiple possible reasons why it wouldn’t.
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Aside from the mark below the L in Liberty, it has the unnatural look of a cleaned and retoned coin, so no. I don't think it
will grade.
Tom
No because of all the reasons previously cited. At least it's not a counterfeit.
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No.
Agree.
This type of picture I wonder if a white silver Roosevelt dime was next to it in the picture what would it look like. I say this because it has such an unnatural / unusual look that I think could some of this be in the photo.
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A lot of crappy Bust $ end up in holders. Might as well try
No chance.
No, the graffiti etc. will prevent that, but it is authentic, so that would be the main value of a slab. Cheers, RickO
No. The surfaces appear altered.
Nope, graffiti. Personally if I had this coin I would keep it raw, but that's just me. Main value of sending it in would be to prove authenticity.
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I don’t think that this piece would get a straight grade, but oddly enough, I have seen Bust Dollars with very light graffiti on the obverse that got a straight. The piece in question looked like an AU but was graded EF-45. One dealer suggested that it had been net graded which indicated that the grader saw and did not view it bad enough to give it a “details” grade.
If I received that coin, sight-unseen in a straight-grade holder I'd be quite unhappy.
Based on the FH dollar with the GxG, this one might have a chance.
@pcgs69 Yes, my post was a bit tongue in cheek! After seeing the Flowing hair dollar with graffiti yesterday, i was kinda shocked that it had straight graded…i know if i submitted this. ion what the result would be!
Same here! I’m sure if i submitted that FH dollar it would come back “tooled, cleaned, graffiti, whizzed, damaged, filed rims, questionable authenticity, environmental damage”