I give most of my coins 2 grades, call me Old Fashioned

mrdq

Back in my good old days it was common to see coins with one OBVERSE/REVERSE grade like 45/55 if a coin had one side better than the other. Slabbing companies IMO have been the downfall of this "Collectors" type of grading. They don't want to spend the extra 6.8 seconds it'll take to accurately grade and display 2 grades for a coin. That's fine, I can slap my sticker on the slab that says ##/## for my 2 grades myself.

The main benefit this has for me is that when trying to upgrade a coin like this for example
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I can watch for either a REVERSE or OBVERSE upgrade on the same numerically slabbed coin.

Learn to grade your coins like many people say (I'm no expert but i'm learning) and you can see the difference in a pile of similarly slabbed 63's and get some nice upgrades.

Does anyone else still double grade their coins either mentally or physically note it in their little black book?

Fairlaneman

Tom in some instances I think the grading services do take the old split grading into account and give a coin a market grade. I have such a coin that I firmly believe they did this with. The obverse is no better than 63 and the reverse is a full blown 66. The coin came back 64 and the grade really suprised me when I saw the Net Grade. Could be that this also goes the other way. Maybe this is another piece of the grading puzzle that folks have.

Ken

mrdq

We've heard a few times (paraphrasing here)
"The reverse won't HELP a coin but it could HURT a coin"

Why not just give it 2 grades when it's warranted.







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UncleJoe

Absolutely!!!

My main interest is Buffalo Nickels. With the uneven striking of some years as well as the uneven wear that a lot of these coins were subjected to, there are many Buffalo Nickels that truly have an obverse grade that is different than the reverse.

Sometimes better, sometimes worse and sometimes believe it or not, a 2-grade difference.

I agree with you that by grading the obverse separate from the reverse that it helps me know what kind of coin would be an upgrade.

Joe.