A coin I purchased today.Your opinions please.

smprfi

1911 Lincoln cent graded by PCGS.What do you think the grade is?I disagree with the grade given, but I bought it because I thought it was a good deal.

sinin1

MS67 ?


But that would not be the grade PCGS gave, because then you would not have gotten a good deal - did they call it MS65?

FC57Coins

MS65RB

mbbiker

In real life it's a MS-66RB

PCGS calls it a MS-65BN

coppercoins

Probably graded 65RB, probably should be 65RD.

ccrdragon

I'd guess 65RB on the holder, should be RD!

Merc

MS65 RB. There is no way it is red.

Rampage

I say a 64BN, 64RB if lucky.

Richard.

nwcs

From photo, I think 65BN, but I can see it being 66BN.

MJCoin

I agree with mbbiker. Nice Coin!

smprfi

I think it should be MS65RB.

FC57Coins

Isnt that slab about 10 years old? It looks like a perfect example of toning inside the holder! Rut Roh!

Frank

clackamas

Its an RB for sure. 65RD sounds right. The surface preservation looks good and the strike is good. If it was a bright coin it would have gone 66 but I think they netgraded it down to 65RD and it has since gone to RB. However if the color is different than the scan idicates I have seen coins this dark end up in RD holders because they are in fact Red not the golden copper color.

Bikingnut

I'm not too surprised that it got a red designation. I've seen some early Lincolns in PCGS holders that were a lot browner than that and still get the red designation.

Coin Finder

PCGS does say in their guide that mellowing of red is allowed to recieve a RD designation as long as it is proportional to the luster allowed for each grade.

Nice coin!

Tbig

smprfi

<< <i>Isnt that slab about 10 years old? It looks like a perfect example of toning inside the holder! Rut Roh!

Frank >>


Frank I talked to conder101 and he said the slab came out in 1989.That year only.

Outhaul

I have a California in the same slab

Wanna sell the cent?

smprfi

<< <i>I have a California in the same slab

Wanna sell the cent? >>


Sure,make me an offer.

michael

looks like a superb gem red brown coin to me and also for the date really greswt eye appeal!

if you look you will find great coins congrats on a greawt find!!

sincerely michael

oreville

Love those 1989 PCGS insert holders. I have about 5 of them.

2 of them are 1972/72 DDOcents in bright red that have not mellowed in color at all in those holders.

Yes, I agree that in 1989 PCGS might have accepted MS-65RD rather than going to a higher and more esteemed MS-66 RB of the day.

Nowadays, it is the other way around!!!!!!!!! that PCGS would probably DOWNGRADE this coin to a MS-66 RB and pay you the difference between the two .....LOL.

Either way you win!!!

But I vote to keep the coin in the old holder. You can't lose.

Someday people will pay more for the old holder than the coin as stange as it sounds.