Grades in from Dad's Estate
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When going through my Dad's estate recently I found 4 coins that I thought it would be prudent to get slabbed up. Grades & images are in now. Three out of four straight graded. Not bad Dad, not bad.
VG8, I think this one is my favorite of the four.
AU55
VG Details, Damage (Can you spot the damage?)
MS64
43
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Coingratulations on the straight grades!
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If you hadn't told me the twenty-cent piece didn't straight-grade, I would have expected it to straight-grade. I don't think the obverse scratches near the date are anything to worry about at this grade level, so I will guess that the obverse rim is flattened near five o'clock.
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All nice stuff (umm, is that jewelery damage as in bezel?)
What about that chewed up rim at nine o'clock?
I like that lightly toned 83-CC Morgan.
Yeah I would guess rim damage on the double dime as well.
Perhaps the area above the eagle's head.
Great looking coin nevertheless.
scratch under foot on right
Re-engraved gown details
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I don't see that being much different than the surfaces on the rest of the coin such as the obverse right field. I do see jagged shadows created by that rim at 9 o'clock that I find concerning. IMO, even without seeing the extent of damage or corrosion to that rim, no rim should leave a shadow like that and straight grade. It does show a lot of character for a heavily circulated coin, and it's a special coin as a family heirloom, IMO.
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Great group !
Actually it looks like someone carved a triangle there and fortunately it wasn't labelled graffiti.
Nice group! I think the damage on the 20c piece is a combination of the bite taken out of the obverse, edge at 10:00, a scratch below Liberty's left foot and above the 5, plausible graffiti in the field near the drapery above the knee (large asterisk), and lots of heavy hits.
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What about the semi circular mark at the eagle's crotch?
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Something's going on at 12:00 o'clock on the double dime also.. The scratch under the foot is small and I would suspect the PCGS label would say "scratch" Does it?
Damage on the rim at 9:00 yes
Good pull on the re engraved gown but I'm not sure without the coin in hand.
Damaged is a different no-grade code from scratched. It seems to be a "death by a thousand cuts" sort of designation for this coin. We're finding lots of little things wrong with it, and perhaps that adds up to being called damaged.
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Warts and all I love the CC 20c.
Those are great coins to have as a rememebrance of your Dad.
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Thanks for all the comments and guesses on the damage. I'm leaning towards edge issues in multiple places. I think if it were the scratch it would grade scratched, not damaged. If they thought it was re-engraving on Liberty I'd expect them to say tooled instead of damaged (I got some tooled grades for just that years ago with a few seated dollars). I'll have to reinspect closely when it's home and maybe post some edge photos if I can get good ones.
I got the coins in hand today and took a close look at the 20¢.
The dark line along the reverse rim from 6 o'clock-2 o'clock is actually indented into the coin so that could surely be damage right? Also, the edge from obverse 9 o'clock-11 o'clock is pretty chewed up. That entire edge area is beat up and only has 3 distinctly discernible reeds. The edge just right of 1875 is the same way but to a lesser degree. So that could totally be the damage too.
All the other spots mentioned look ok to me under a 9x loupe.
I'll admit when I got the coin and assessed it prior to submitting it I did not look at the edge of the coin. My fault there. I do think it's a pretty coin for a VG, especially when not looking at the edge lol.
Nice coins thanks for sharing.