COIN GRADING OF THE DAY!!!!!!! (pu-leeze grade it)

DMWJR

Ok, I don't own the coin, but I saw it on EBay in an ANACS holder. Can you give it a grade? ANACS did!

OBVERSE (if you couldn't tell)


REVERSE (maybe)

GaCoinGuy

Hmm.........I recall seeing something like that once after one of my cats up-chucked a deat hairball........



How can anyone legitimately grade something like that? What kinda "grade" did ANACS give it?

DHeath

Sure looks like a III-D-10 Struck coin fragment, but it could be a double struck clip. JMO, as I'm just learning strike errors.

DMWJR

Okay, don't cheat, but after you give it a grade (if you can) here is a link to the insert and the auction:



INSERT

AUCTION

DHeath

Cool.....so the fragment stuck to the die and was repeatedly struck, becoming capped, and when it finally emerged, it was also a brockage error as the impression of the last coin struck while it was on the die face is visible.

Russ

Man, if somebody actually comes along and pays that opening bid, I'm going to start mashing up bottle caps and listing them.

Russ, NCNE

DMWJR

I would be OK with slabbing it, but NOT putting a grade on it. It's like a pinhole in the curtain of grading, and each of you stepped up to look and were disgusted with what you saw. At least that's how I describe it.

You can't legitimately put a grade on a scrap. What's the process? You can't count marks on part of a coin that is not present, so we will count the marks on the piece, and make that total the total for the whole coin.

Wait until I start submitting iron filings! I'll get MS70's evertime!!!

DHeath

I didn't even see the grade, I was so busy looking at the scrap, but that is pretty silly.

Tonelover

Awesome. I think ANACS needs a larger label to get it all on there.

DMWJR

Tonelover, you can't vote here! It hasn't been painted yet! That would surely bump it to a 64.

PS: There is plenty of space where the coin should be that they can finish the description!

Cam40

You cant really tell its a 63 and not a 66 from the pic.
Its an awful pic.One light source and its probably a lamp in the corner.,,with the lampshade still on it.

Those lampshades will kill the natural color of a coin in photography.You see it alll the time.

I nearly thought it was a Proof fragment Roosie (shredded clip) error.

How do they grade these things?
Easy.
You just grade the areas you can see the struck coin.
Simple.

dorkkarl

they slab toenails now???

K S

nwcs

MS-70 error.

coinguy1

Doug,

That is actually quite easy to grade and no, I didn't peek - 40% full (but broken) moon.

ksteelheader

ttt