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Guess the grade on this Columbia 50c

HigashiyamaHigashiyama Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I'm planning to submit this shortly, and would be curious to hear any guesses as to the grade. I'll post the results as soon as they are available.
Higashiyama

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  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    Nice tab toning.

    MS-65

    Cameron Kiefer
  • PlacidPlacid Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭
    NM
  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    No, no, no, no, a thousand times, no. No NCS, darn it, it's a tab-toned commem. Let it be. There are so many white Columbia's, and they aren't expensive. If you want one, go get one. Don't make one.

    But, Placid one thing is undeniable, if it is your coin you have the right to do whatever you want to it. But, it makes me queasy.
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • PlacidPlacid Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭
    NM
  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    Hey, buy all the white ones that you want. It's none of my business. But, how about leaving the toned ones for the people who appreciate toning? Once it's gone it's gone.

    Yes, it may be an aquired taste. Tab toning is something that comemmorative specialists (many, not all) really do appreciate and seek out. Why just arbitrarily destroy it? Leave it for those who appreciate it.

    I wouldn't look twice at that Columbia if it were dipped. And you think it's ugly toned. Okay, that doesn't bother me. All I'm saying is move on to the next piece until you find what you're looking for rather than alter one in front of you that may be exactly what somebody else is looking for.

    Edited to say: Placid I don't want this to sound like I'm coming down heavy on you personally. This is just kind of my plea (which I make every now and again) for people to leave certain coins alone if they really don't have to alter them.
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • PlacidPlacid Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭
    NM
  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    Yes, I did ask. And whether I agree or not (I don't) you are entitled to the opinion.
    I have no intention or desire to open the toning debate, as to what it is and it's nature. It's been done to death.
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • gmarguligmarguli Posts: 2,225 ✭✭
    Placid, if an ugly toned one is "being eaten alive to rot because to you that is what toning is", then the same is true for beautiful toned coins. Rotting is rotting. Just because one is pretty doesn't make it not rotting.

    Take your icon for example. Clear rot all over it. Dip it ASAP. You don't want it to rot more do you?

  • gmarguligmarguli Posts: 2,225 ✭✭
    I personally don't care for the toning on this coin (or tab toning in general), but it looks mark free. It looks more mark free than my MS67.
  • PlacidPlacid Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Placid, if an ugly toned one is "being eaten alive to rot because to you that is what toning is", then the same is true for beautiful toned coins. Rotting is rotting. Just because one is pretty doesn't make it not rotting.

    Take your icon for example. Clear rot all over it. Dip it ASAP. You don't want it to rot more do you? >>



    Did I say a beautiful toned coin isn't rotting? I wouldn't want to risk a beatifully toned coin being dipped clean by ncs because of their inflated market value.
    I don't think it's possible for a coin to tone without it's surface being altered.


  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,162 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Somewhere between AU58 and MS66. If you really think you can come closer than that off a scan, you are fooling yourself!
    Early Dollar Set
  • HigashiyamaHigashiyama Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭✭✭
    TDN -- I'm practicing for my Ebay debut.
    Higashiyama
  • WhitewashqtrWhitewashqtr Posts: 736 ✭✭✭
    TDN -- YOu are right on!! But I still think its an MS62.
    HAVE A GREAT DAY! THE CHOICE IS YOURS!!!!
  • HigashiyamaHigashiyama Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Whitewash -- I may be foolish, but not foolish enough to submit a 62! (it will grade 65 + or I'll eat the original envelope it came in)
    Higashiyama
  • truthtellertruthteller Posts: 1,240 ✭✭
    An NGC66 or a PCGS65. Reverse toning just a bit too heavy to warrant a higher grade. Pretty tab toning for those who are sophisticated. Is the envelope for sale?

    TRUTH
  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    Placid--
    If any or my responses to your posts made you uncomfortable enough to go back and edit them out, then I sincerely apologize. It was never my intent to bull-doze you. But, if that's the way you feel, again I'm sorry.
    Carl
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • HigashiyamaHigashiyama Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well, the envelope was a bit dry, but with a bit of Newman's dressing it wasn't too bad.

    Result from PCGS -- MS64. This grade is certainly within a range of fair. Personally, I would call it exceptionally PQ at 64.
    Higashiyama
  • darktonedarktone Posts: 8,437 ✭✭✭
    Higashiyama- I bet if you resubmit this a couple of times you will get the 65 you are looking for. mike
    image
  • FC57CoinsFC57Coins Posts: 9,140 ✭
    I'm going out on a limb and go with an MS66 because I'm willing to venture that the toning doesn't look that bad in real life. The coin appears to be in terrific shape and if my Franklins are any measure of what to look for I'd definitely go MS66 on this one.

    Frank
  • zennyzenny Posts: 1,547 ✭✭
    perhaps you'd do better sending to another grading company, for instance like this person did (or the one they bought it from)

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