I sent in some Moderns for grading. - Trueview photos are posted.
SanctionII
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I decided to send in 22 Moderns (including 20 MS clad quarters, including some toners, that I have collected since I was a YN; a 1966 SMS half that appears to be one of the DDO varieties that exist for that year; and a 1967 SMS Nickel that IMO is a lock Gem+ CAM) ) to our host under a Quarterly special in effect for the last three months of 2024.
The 20 quarters are dated from 1968 through 1982 and to my eye, have positive eye appeal. I have no idea how they will grade, and view the submission as the equivalent of buying a Mega Millions lottery ticket.
I previously submitted these three MS clad quarters for grading (they all graded MS66) and was pleased with the results. The 20 quarters in the new submission are similar to these three.
I will post the results when they pop.
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Good luck. You have a good eye, some am confident you will get good results.
I used to have a really nice clad quarter set. When well struck, they are really nice and even better with a tad of toning! I really like the 83! Some of them are really tough to find better than MS66 and the pricing can get stupid above MS67!
Just checked the status of my recent submission. It was logged in as Received on 1-2-2025. It has progressed to "Grading" and is "Being Imaged". PCGS reports that turn around time for Modern submissions is currently 30 days. That is pretty fast compared to the past couple of years.
Those '69s look real nice
My recent submission has now progressed to the encapsulation stage. It is moving fairly quickly through the system.
Kudos to our host.
Grades posted today on my 22 coin modern submission (including 20 clad quarters from 1968 - 1982).
For the quarters I received grades of MS66 (on 10 coins), MS65 (on 3 coins), MS64 (on 4 coins) and MS63 (on 3 coins). I was hoping to receive one or two MS67 grades, but no such luck.
10 coins grading MS66 is pretty good IMO. These 10 coins are 1968-P, 1968-D, 1970-D, 1972-D, 1973-D, 1973-D, 1974-D, 1974-D, 1979-D and 1982-P.
A 1967 SMS nickel graded SP66CAM (I cannot get a grade of SP67CAM or greater on the SMS nickels).
A 1966 SMS half graded SP66 DDO, FS-106 (a nice variety).
True View photos will eventually be available. I wonder how good or bad these photos will be.
It's good that you can consistently pick out 66s. It's rough that none went your way as 67s.
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I had a couple go 67 recently but I like your Trueviews better.
I had hoped that the 68 would go at least 67+ Here is my rendition.
Here are some of the more eye appealing coins (these coins look better in hand, under good lighting, than they appear in the photos).
SP66 DDO, FD-106
MS66
MS66
MS66
MS66
MS66
MS66
MS64
MS64
MS66
MS66
MS65
SP66CAM
It's easy to like others more... those are terrible. Even the cropping is horrible.
I finally swore off Tv's as they're devaluing my investment. Pictures look more accurate when viewing the entire slab anyway though I do provide closeups when selling I would not buy one of my coins based on the trueview.
That 1978 is a chiseled beauty
The TrueViews are washed-out. I would have hoped that our host would have solved the image issues by now. Regardless, I'm certain the coins are super nice in-hand.
Nice. Having just sent in some silver Roosies and getting TVs, I can imagine your coins look better than we see
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That is a very nice group of coins. Did you pull the Washingtons out of an album put together with care?
The 20 quarters I submitted came from various sources since I was a YN, including some I pulled from circulation in the year of issue. For many years they sat in Whitman albums.
Really like the 3rd coin from the top, the 68 quarter,MS66. Nice orange,yellow contrast.
Some very nice coins there Sir, even with the problems inherent with photos. I sent in two 1970D halves from mint sets that were absolutely stunning and they came back "65" - was really shocked and could be wrong but somehow doubt they were given anything but a perfunctory glance. We put so much faith in these numbers generated but think they must be on occasion taken with a grain of salt.
Well, just Love coins, period.
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The 1-70 Sheldon grading scale is (IMO) better than the adjectival grading system (Poor, Fair, About Good, Good, Very Good, Fine, Very Fine, Extremely Fine, About Uncirculated, Uncirculated, Choice Uncirculated and Gem Uncirculated).
However, numbers are numbers while grading has been, is and will be a matter of subjective opinion. In the MS/PF/SP range of 60-70 there are slabbed coins with numerical grades assigned by TPG expert graders that upon being viewed by multiple hobbyists (collectors and dealers) are viewed as being over graded or under graded.
Sometimes excessively so, leaving one scratching one's head and thinking WHAT!!!!!.
I do not have the newly graded clad quarters back from our host yet (maybe today), but my recollection is that some of them look significantly better than they do in the posted photos. I thought some of these coins warranted a 67 grade and look forward to comparing these now graded coins with Coin Facts photos of other coins of the same date and MM that are graded higher than mine.
Really nice looking coins.
@SanctionII
That’ll just make you mad because most of the true views of CoinFacts are from a time when grading was much looser.
I like the coins.
Too bad no 67's
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Received the quarters back today. Here are some cropped cell phone photos. The coins in hand look better than they do in the True View photos.
Ah, the good old days of quality Trueview photos.
The new Trueviews look better than the abysmal ones I posted about last year, but they are still subpar, and the bad cropping is inexcusable. Every auction house, other TPGs, many dealers and rank amateurs like me are able to produce far superior photos than current Trueviews; it just baffles me that they cannot fix this.