Guess the Grade on this BLUE Roosie.....big picture! GRADE Posted

Colorfulcoins

Been awhile since we guessed a Roosevelt - here's a nice BLUE one (my favorite) - guess the grade: to be posted later!

FC57Coins

purdy! MS67 due to the ding by the ear and on the neck

fcloud

MS67

Placid

68

airplanenut

67

XpipedreamR

66, great looking.

nwcs

Beautiful 66 shot 67. Here's my closest approximation to it.

CoinAddict

Beautiful coin. I will miss MS-67.

Fairlaneman

68 on the Roosie. Is this Big Dime Night ?



Ken

rainbowroosie

Craig,
you forgot my Christmas gift -- just send it in the mail!!!!!!

Colorfulcoins

Bill:

1. YOU didn't gues the grade - not shy are you????? Common on big guy, pony up the bar and guess the grade!

2. I thought you liked the red/green ones (like this one) not the blue ones......<g> This one is a MS66 that would qialify for FB if submitted I believe.

lablover

My guess would be MS67 based only on the obverse. It's that dang ugly toning that reduces it's grade and value. Just send it to me and I'll give it a good cleaning. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Tassa

I'll say MS67. Love the color.

Colorfulcoins

Ken, BTW - I really like the toning on the 45 Merc! I own a few Mercs and that's the kind of toning I 'd like to own!!!!! Thanks for sharing (again). Grade posted tomorrow after the West Coast wakes up.....gotta allow time for rainbowroosie to guess <grin>

clw54

MS67

onlyroosies

Can't grade a coin just looking at one side. How about a reverse photo.

Blackhawk

MS65

jcping

MS67

Colorfulcoins

Good news is that there's ONE guess that's correct - the coin is a MS65. If you look closely at the cheek, you'll see some light scratches. As manofcoins also noted, there's a field tick at 2 o'clock. But the real reason for the MS65 grade is a deep but short scratch on the chin - if you look closely, from right below the bottom of the mouth stright down towards the Motto, you can see what looks like a yellow mark but is really a scratch...tilt it right and boy o boy is it there. I was hoping for a MS66 grade but its the toning on this coin that I really wanted and not the grade. I will say the picture - unaltered - does make the coin appear to be a MS67 grade in spite of the fact that I had to dramatically reduce resolution to get in down below the 50k limit.

Congrats to Blackhawk, I believe the only one guessing MS65.........

Fairlaneman

To heck with the cert grade. The coin is way to pretty for a 65. Its 67 or 68 all the way. In this case buy the cert and not the coin and you will get one hell of a deal.

JMHO on Toned Coins.

Ken

Colorfulcoins

Craig, its my coin and I know its there - when I saw the picture I said (to myself) "where's the scratch?"...looked hard and thee it was - but I knew where to look. For me, there is a GREAT coin - its part of my Blue Rosy set and is the 1st blue 61D I've seen - for some reason, the blue toned D mints are MUCH less common than the P mint coins - go figure. M65 cert w MS67 appeal......