ATTN ALL TONED FRANKLIN FANS!!

grover1

Hi,

I know that some of you crave the Toned Franklins and have just listed with the buy it now option on ebay a 1963 Franklin with light obverse toning and superb multi-color reverse toning. The price I feel is appropriate at 120.00 for this coin because as I agree with Certigrade its hard to put a price on a nicely toned Franklin. I have provided the link to the auction in case anybody is interested and I do have access to more toned Franklins of various years if there is something you people are interested in. The scans did not turn out the greatest as I've upgraded to a new scanbed and am still learning the options to get the best color output but I do believe it shows enough to wet the appetite.

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Thanks for any interest and hopefully I've helped one of you find a nice coin

Matt

MICHAELDIXON

grover1,
Those are some terrible pictures! And Certigrade? Be real!

LucyBop

pontiacinf

are you too close to a nitrous tank?

certigrade isnt a company...its a coinworld slab written out by an idiot and the coin leaves alot to be desired..

PURE JUNK

bootleg3

ROTFALMAO

coinlieutenant

You have got to be freaking kidding me!!!!!!

How old are you grover1?

If you are the certifier, then I suggest you leave the boards....quickly.

If you bought this coin from someone else, PM me or someone else on the boards for some help. The coin market is frought with dangerous people and most of us are here to help.

John

airplanenut

Hey... chill everyone...

The grader at Certigrade not only has legible handwriting, but is ACG approved...!

LincolnCentMan

Tim Jewision Listed In Both Acugrade Books By Alan Hagar

...hardly reassuring....

LucyBop

This coin would be $40 tops in a PCGs/NGC holder.. but, your asking a premium for those rainbows.. they do make mine look drab:



I think you had good intentions, I don't know, but you insult the expertise of this board with such a offering... Now this coin in this coinworld slab with a centigrade sticker is a 10 - 15 dollar coin... Because the centigrade means absoulutely nothing and this one is no better then a raw coin...

LucyBop

and btw, I'm stretching it at 10 -15... I bought a roll of these and would feel guilty selling them for more then 5 dollars to the members of these boards, but then again, my roll of 63p's doesn't have this dizzy rainbow toning...

MadMarty

ROTFLMAO!!! Certagrade, son of Accucrap!

scv3502

Remember folks you're buying the "coin" not the "slab"

LucyBop

Grover1, I just did a search of all your posts and read them all.....

I think I was being mean with you and your auction. I'm sorry.

Its just that this price is offbase for a coin in a certigrade/coinworld holder...

I hope you didn't buy this one....... If you did, stay away from these type of holders.........

Stick with PCGs, NGC and ANACs........ GEM Frankies can be found in other holders but you really need to know the series quite well to spot them..

grover1

heh,

ok now that was the worst I've been flamed in awhile...LOL

Yes I'm new. Certigrade is the guy who got me back into collecting..if it were not for him, his grading company, and the knowledge he's ready to let loose I would've been ripped off on some coins that I wanted to sell to somebody else....now I'll admit the pictures suck...what can I say that is more of a budget issue .. disabled vet thing .. so that gives an idea of my age .. in person it looks alot better but then when I can afford a 5 megapixel camera pics will look better than any scanbed can do. They look alot better on my machine than when they get transferred as well so that has to do something with ebay's compression techniques I do believe.

Now the coin..I've seen plenty of colored Franklins posted on here and ebay and in shops. I'd sooner purchase toned coins and pay a premium for those than a generic clean coin with no personality of its own. Imagine if every human was all shiny with no flaws...be pretty boring wouldn't it. My price to you guys may be out of line but for me as a collector I'll pay the money for uniqueness.

I also know enough to glass the coin before I buy it...I also never buy without my A.N.A. guidelines book...yes I have alot to learn and maybe I did get took on this coin so mistakes you learn buy....many of you I'm sure have made those....I've read alot of posts on here of people who bought coins they regretted. I don't personally own this one. It's one of Tim's that I'm trying to move for him to get his name out and so people can see he grades are solid. I haven't sold many yet of course to anybody period other than shops but if you look at my ebay record.....number 10 is a certigrade coin that I sold and the guy was extremely happy. I and Tim will also be the First to say that he needs professional slabs but then he never expected me to come into his shop and push his grading company. He does it locally and sells at surrounding shows his holdered coins with his grading company's name wrote in. When I started posting his coins to ebay and started getting some nice inquiries to his services he decided to get a slab project going to professionalize his service. So yes maybe his generic coinworld holders don't look as nice and the fancy computerized technique of grading labels is not there but that does not mean his eye isn't good and that it wouldn't grade the same or higher at one of the big 3 if somebody wanted to send it in for a grading, but he will stand 100% behind his grading service just like the big boys....Seems to me if I remember correctly my teachings from Tim .. that PCGS and others have went through the new business blues and experienced business blues to get where they are now....who was it again that tried to computer analyze and grade coins that lasted I think if Tim schooled me correctly a whooping year before they had to go back using the human eye again....I won't bring up any company names here

Like I said my pics don't do justice and really disgrace an otherwise nice coin. That is my weakest point..its not finding a nice coin...its making it look good for others to see on the web where my skills suffer the most.

Sorry for the inconvience....I liked the coin and thought somebody else would to

LucyBop......thanks for taking the time to investigate and see that I'm pretty new to this board and collecting in today's world.


Matt

LucyBop

Again I'm sorry Matt, rather then help you I acted poorly....

I still must say Centigrade is no better then a raw coin and in fact will cause people to wonder why the coin isn't in a top teir holder..
It will be very diffulcult to sell thesse peices, and if that 63 does sell, your probably selling it to another newbie and you really wouldn't
be doing this other person any favors.....

Even if you were able to image this half correctly, most would assume its artificially toned since its not holdered by PCGs/ NGC........
some may feel its at anyways, but in centigrade holder, every red flag that can pop up on a coin will...

Stick with PCGs/NGC/ANACs......... You can find many bargains here in the Franklin series and when it comes time to sell, coins in these holders will sell much easier........

coinlieutenant

Agree with Lucy.

Sorry to have poked fun as well.

Stick with PCGS/NGC/ANACS stuff.

Vr,
John