OK, Darksiders- look at this Liteside coin for a moment.

lordmarcovan

About twenty posts down in this Liteside thread discussing Franklin halves:



<< <i>This one sold at the Superior sale for $1600
PCGS MS66 FBL >>






My response:

You've gotta be shi__ing me.

1. Somebody would pay over a thousand bucks for a 1963-D Franklin?

2. ...and a spotty, ugly 1963-D Franklin, at that?

3. Was the PCGS grader blindfolded? OK, maybe there were FBL's on the reverse, but 66?!? Ben's got buckshot wounds on his face, fer cryin' out loud! Are you sure you posted the right picture?

My first question got Lucy's goat, LOL. But really, now, is it just me, or is this Liteside madness at its worst? Somebody buying the plastic. 'Cause I sure as shootin' don't see nothing appealing about that coin. Maybe it has Full Bell Lines (whoop-de-do), but MS66? Bah. I'd bodybag it. Am I crazy, or was somebody else sniffing too much melted plastic slab fumes or something?

Somebody tried to get me to pay $1,600 for that thing, and I would send them Big Kitty in a box, in hopes that she'd give them a little "present".

lordmarcovan

Oh... now I notice that the Liberty Bell apparently got hit with some of the shrapnel from the same grenade that exploded next to Ben's cheek... or is that my imagination?

MS66.

coinkat

I looked...it gives me renewed hope that some of the 64's that I have are really 65's

ClausUrch

That Frankie would make a good "type" coin for someone's collection of Liteside half dollars and that is about it. I would find it very difficult to pay that kind of money for a true MS66 let alone the POS posted!

Fairlaneman

POS......

lordmarcovan

Thank you. Total POS was my opinion, too, but I didn't say that, exactly, or a certain somebody would have Be Bopped a Lula on my head, if you knowhutimean.

Bruce

Boy, if that coin is worth $1,600 I could retire on my Franklin collection.

shirohniichan

This raises the question of why people pay premiums for the FBL designation. So what if part of the strike is sharp?! If the coin has poor eye appeal, I can't see why anyone would pay big money for it.

What does a whole roll of UNC 1963-D Frankies go for, anyway?

satootoko

<< <i>Oh... now I notice that the Liberty Bell apparently got hit with some of the shrapnel from the same grenade that exploded next to Ben's cheek... or is that my imagination? >>



Definitely two separate grenades (or maybe morter shells?).

Askari

Actually, I thought that was the ultra-rare "Vampire Bite" variety.

lordmarcovan

Oh, I take back the part about the PCGS grader being blindfolded. Even blindfolded, he coulda felt those craters with his bare hands!

Grading by Braille... hmm... there's a concept. Sometimes I think it would be almost as accurate. (Not a specific slap at PCGS, mind you, but with every service there have been times when I wondered if a coin was graded by the dartboard or the braille method...)

JamminJ

<< <i> Even blindfolded, he coulda felt those craters with his bare hands! >>



That may explain some of the finger print problems they've been having lately!

Seriously, that is one butt ugly 66 - a good canditate for grade review. Perhaps its possible the black splotch truned in the holder, but the shrapnel wounds certainly didn't.

-JamminJ

SYRACUSIAN

<<Maybe it has Full Bell Lines (whoop-de-do), but MS66? Bah. I'd bodybag it. Am I crazy, or was somebody else sniffing too much melted plastic slab fumes or something>>

spoon

<< <i>This raises the question of why people pay premiums for the FBL designation. So what if part of the strike is sharp?! If the coin has poor eye appeal, I can't see why anyone would pay big money for it. >>

Sounds like a neurosis.. OCD, maybe?

Aethelred

IMO that is a $10 coin!

CIVITAS

Definitely a bad case of overgrading. Probably market graded to the max too because of the FBL (if they're even there). Let's see, bid on an MS-64 is $11.00. Wasn't even worth the price of certification.

Maybe Hall personally handed this one to the graders and said "See what you can do with this."

Aethelred

Civitas is willing to pay $11, so I am out!

CIVITAS

I would be happy to scale back to my usual buy price for scrap silver (3.0X face) if you really want to be the buyer on that one, Aethelred.

Judging by the look of that coin, I may actually have some $1600.00 treasures in my scrap bucket.

Aethelred

<< <i>I would be happy to scale back to my usual buy price for scrap silver (3.0X face) if you really want to be the buyer on that one, Aethelred.

Judging by the look of that coin, I may actually have some $1600.00 treasures in my scrap bucket. >>

ccrdragon

Registry madness run amok! This is exactly the sort of point that I have been trying to make on every post about buying coins and not plastic! LM -> I wouldn't give you melt for that POS, much less $1600!

lordmarcovan

Oh, I'd give melt for it. And a little for the plastic, too.

I thought about this, and decided to be charitable: I came to the exact same price conclusion Aethelred did: ten bucks total.

1jester

ACG MS-66 maybe. An unattractive coin.

newbiecollector

Personally, I would NOT give $10 for this coin. Not as a coin I would want to collect for eye appeal. Just my feelings of course.

lordmarcovan

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