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Grade this butt ugly 1964-D Kennedy Half Dollar

RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
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What would it grade?

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  • DHeathDHeath Posts: 8,472 ✭✭✭
    MS66.
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  • stmanstman Posts: 11,352 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>What would it grade? >>



    Cough... I wouldn't. image I gots to get me one of theses things. For sale? Cool coin nice catch!!!!

    Edit for spelling. Ah never mind ain't worth it.
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  • Sphinx357Sphinx357 Posts: 1,279
    AU58
  • k10k10 Posts: 142
    MS60 AFP (Accented Fingerprint)
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  • mnmcoinmnmcoin Posts: 2,165 ✭
    MS64.

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  • XpipedreamRXpipedreamR Posts: 8,059 ✭✭
    63

    Does the color look nicer in person?


    And I don't think it's that ugly, eitherimage
  • jeffnpcbjeffnpcb Posts: 1,943 ✭
    AU-58! But they are all BUTT UGLY!!! Look like Frankies with more of a hairline and facing left!!!image
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  • LucyBopLucyBop Posts: 14,001 ✭✭✭
    I'll agree, the holder should say 'butt ugly'!
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  • DHeathDHeath Posts: 8,472 ✭✭✭
    OK guys, the coin is without a doubt buttugly, and is olive toned. Let's grade technically for a minute. We don't know what the obverse luster looks like in hand, and the reverse looks full bloom. I see a small dot in the shield, but NO OTHER marks on the entire coin. There is zero evidence of wear. I'd say the coin was likely held to a 6 because of the toning and weak obverse strike, although sometimes the toning will camoflage the strike. JMO
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  • stmanstman Posts: 11,352 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>OK guys, the coin is without a doubt buttugly, and is olive toned. Let's grade technically for a minute. We don't know what the obverse luster looks like in hand, and the reverse looks full bloom. I see a small dot in the shield, but NO OTHER marks on the entire coin. There is zero evidence of wear. I'd say the coin was likely held to a 6 because of the toning and weak obverse strike, although sometimes the toning will camoflage the strike. JMO >>



    Ok then boss. I say BUimage
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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 24,325 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am not sure... I'll take DHeath's word for it. I bet it looks better in person.

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  • jeffnpcbjeffnpcb Posts: 1,943 ✭
    I think the obverse has rub maybe, but not wear! It appears to have been pressed for a while and doesn't look sharp! Grade and slab with reverse on the face side of slab! Might even paint over reverse side of slab so we don't see the obverse of this coin!
    Could use as a shim for leveling a computer desk!
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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    I'm telling ya, that Don is a grading genius! The coin is a PCGS MS66.

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  • nankrautnankraut Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭
    I'm not much on JFK's; but I 'll grade it E.R.T.U. (end roll toning ugly)
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  • DHeathDHeath Posts: 8,472 ✭✭✭
    Could use as a shim for leveling a computer desk!

    LMAO.....only reverse up.image
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  • TrooperTrooper Posts: 1,450 ✭
    64 is my pick..
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  • Sphinx357Sphinx357 Posts: 1,279
    You people and your toned coins :rolleyes:
  • ARCOARCO Posts: 4,444 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Russ - That was the lucky half that went on apollo 11 and accidently left in the sea of tranquility by Neil Armstrong. Ol' forgetfull Neil completely spaced it off!

    Luckily The commander, Eugene A. Cernan of Apollo 17 broke the rules and made a little sidetracked excursion to go back and get it.

    Looks like the harsh conditions on the moon did a little number on it though! I think it was a MS64 while in flight, but the solar dust striking the moon every day wore it down a few grades on the obverse to XF40.

    Tyler
  • DHeathDHeath Posts: 8,472 ✭✭✭
    I'm telling ya, that Don is a grading genius!

    I had already seen the coin listed on TT. image I thought about why it graded 66 long enough that the coin stuck in my memory. My final conclusion was that it could not look like the pic, and sometimes heavy toners don't. It's not a coin I'd want based on the pic.
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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I had already seen the coin listed on TT. >>



    Oh man, that is such a let down. I'll have to find a new hero. image

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  • CoulportCoulport Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭
    Two bucks.
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  • rainbowroosierainbowroosie Posts: 4,875 ✭✭✭✭
    I grade it "PPQ" ---- PuPu Quality.....image
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  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    Technical grade withstanding. MS63!
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  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    Mna I would have said that skanky thing was a 63 because it looks like some bag marks in the middle of the cheeck but then again it may be just fingerprints I mean toning breaks.
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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    Not hardly worth a grade.
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  • perroperro Posts: 122
    I don't think I will ever understand grading. For me it is the equivalent to translating Ancient Sumerian. I was going to say from the high G's to VF, and I felt I was being generous. then I send in a snow white semi-rare morgan and I search high and low with 2 different powered eye pieces and guarantee to myself that it will get a rating from MS60 --MS63, and it comes back an AU! imageimage

    I GIVE UP. It just seems soooooooooooooooooooo arbitrary and inconsistent. Maybe some of you could talk some sense into a coin dummy?









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  • coppercoinscoppercoins Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭
    Without reading any of the posts I had MS65 in mind - IF that tarnish were gone. With the tarnish I'd call it a 63. I see the assigned grade of 66 and wholeheartedly disagree...unless it looks a lot better without the tarnish.
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  • perroperro Posts: 122
    TTT
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  • JMOOREJMOORE Posts: 1,000
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  • tporrecatporreca Posts: 146
    Crack it out, ACG will give it a MS70.
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  • perroperro Posts: 122
    TTT for Dog97
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