1907 High Relief with filed reverse rim

TheNumish

Here is a 1907 $20 High Relief that grades MS-63. Pretty nice coin except someone decided to file some rim bruises off the coin. The dameage is at 12 o'clock on the reverse. Hopefully you can see it on the close up scan. This is pretty common for High reliefs so if you ever buy a raw coin make sure to look at the rims very carefully.

This coin would never grade at PCGS or NGC but is still wroth MS-60 money since it's otherwise such a nice coin. The damage isn't so severe to ruin the coin but is bad enough to be a no-grade.

braddick

LINKS don't work. I've wanted to see what a filed rim repair looks like on a coin- please fix?

keithdagen

Kind of looks like the rims on that Chain Cent we were looking at today.

Braddick, reload the page a couple of times and the scans will come up.

MrLee

Links are working for me. Try again.

kranky

Links worked for me. Sometimes you have to try them a few times.

While I had heard the term "rim filed" before I hadn't seen one. For some reason I had imagined it would be very hard to spot, but that looks pretty obvious. Nice pictures.

TheNumish

Keith- It's a little more subtle on this coin. That chain cent was pretty beat up but your right, same concept.

Kranky- The High Relief is a wire rim so it makes it a little easier to spot.

michael

rim filed coins gold coins especially i havr seen many and they are easy to tell if you look for them but with the quick few seconds grading on coins i have seen some get slabbed in major grading services holders that then you sometimes can see the file mark but for the most part you cant
a scarey thing but such is the coin game

waht if you break the coin out of its respective holder and then see the rim file or do not see it? and send it back in? such is the coin game

sincerely michael

braddick

Thanks guys- it works for me too (now). Wow- it would seem it would be better to have a nick or two in the rims than to further cause damage? STILL a Killer coin!

There was one recently offered on eBay in something like VF30 or so (can't exactly remember). Even then it STILL looked great.

Trime

Thanks.
Learned something.

FC57Coins

WOW - what a shame to ruin such a beautiful coin!