Large Cent experts..Grade this for me please.

agentjim007

I think it's a full G-4, your thoughts..Thanks

airplanenut

It sure is a beaut! I would say AG3 or G4, depending on whether they care that the wear is a little uneven... I probably agree with the G4 more

Jeremy

braddick

(Double post)

braddick

Full GD04, shot VG08.

agentjim007

Singapore

AG3.

BigD5

For that coin......full gd/4, maybe even gd/6. The surfaces look a bit suspect (light corrosion?) so depending in how you feel about that will probably be where the coin ends up, pricewise.
It's the kind of coin where you just say the coin is $x, grade it as you like, the price doesn't change.

Rittenhouse

EAC F2, Photograde G4. You may get one of the services to pop a VG based on the strength in the portrait (typical for thge "Horizontal Stem" obv that appears on S8, S9, NC4. Yours is S9 - 4 trefoils in line with CENT). Doubt it 'cause of the weak rev. Nice coin worth G4 money.

agentjim007

Rittenhouse, it sounds like your the guy I've been wating for. Yes S-9 and I noticed even higher grade S-9's are weak at the lower right side od the wreath and weak on the lower part of the 93 in the date. I know EAC is usually more strick grading but I down loaded the current EAC auction catalog and was surprised to find their lower graded coins to be graded quite liberally. I saw similiar coins to this called G7. Doens't the EAC use their own standards when grading their own coins ?

09sVDB

Technical grade: AG3/Market grade: G4-6

hughesm1

Not bad, oh the tales she could tell!

Coin Finder

Pcgs would probably slab it Good 4 or Good 6 depending on the surfaces. Nice coin if color is right on.

Tbig

originalisbest

Beautiful coin, Agentjim - I would agree with an overall grade of G-4 or G-6, all things considered. This is just the type of appearance I would look for in a coin of this type. You have good taste! If it's not already yours, hope you get it.

How does the coin look in the hand? Darker, lighter, or just about the same as the pics?

Dave99B

Nice G4.

Dave

MacCrimmon

EAC4657 here....

Looks like a G6 for sharpness and net G4. surfaces looks average minus. If I saw the actual coin, I might be
inclined to bump it to G7 / Net G5 if that porosity was fairly fine.....nice color. Apologies to Hall, etal. but send the
scan to Tom Reynolds or Chris McCawley for a true specialist opinion.

Cheers, MacC.

BTW, it's definitely worth G4 money.

agentjim007

a couple pics that show the color better. The coin has very minor porosity not a problem and looks like zero porosity without a glass. I believe the color is original but the coin was lightly cleaned just around the date and the brown it a shade lighter when seen at certain angles. I notice it easy now but didn't when I first bought it so it can't be that obvious. Would bother me on anything other than a 200+ year old coin. I can return but don't think I'm gonna. I like this coin.

Rittenhouse

Solid "oldtime" EAC AG3 or Photograde G. Color looks good, no obvious porosity or problems so no deductions. Surfaces look nice so Average or Ave+. Only the probs you mentioned keep it from choice.

IMHO EAC grading has loosened in the last 10 years, and horribly so in the last 5 (same is true of commercial grading). I'm not sure anyone really EAC grades anymore. If you get some of the older EACers in a discussion, then the EAC grading comes out, but not even the top copper dealers grade to what I call EAC grading. And forget the grading in auctions, EAC or not. Get an auction catalog from the 80s or 90s like the JHR or Chalkey sales and you'll see what I mean. And those sales were thought by EACers to be a couple "fame points" high at the time.

lordmarcovan

I'm no large cent expert like Rittenhouse and the EAC folk, but I would say it squeaks by as a G4. On later types, a coin that looked like that would probably be an AG.

Nice piece... I like it!

originalisbest

I wouldn't let something like that worry you on a coin of this nature, AgentJim. Seems like a pretty sweet piece from the pics!