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Is this a Proof Barber?

tsacchtsacch Posts: 2,929 ✭✭✭
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Is this a proof Barber????????? And the grade he says it is? I know grading is an opinion, but judging by what has been sold in the history, I dont know if i can get my arms around this guys coins???? anyone here deal with them? the return policy seems fair and the feedback is more than good? Opinions.....check item # 3901953944 its another proof barber????whats wrong with that one?
Family, kids, coins, sports (playing not watching), jet skiing, wakeboarding, Big Air....no one ever got hurt in the air....its the sudden stop that hurts. I hate Hurricane Sandy. I hate FEMA and i hate the blasted insurance companies.

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  • PlacidPlacid Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭

    PROOF BARBER HALF PROOF 64/65 YOU DECIDE

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  • tsacchtsacch Posts: 2,929 ✭✭✭
    Wow, he also has a 1909SVDB that is kinda funky.....check that one out
    Family, kids, coins, sports (playing not watching), jet skiing, wakeboarding, Big Air....no one ever got hurt in the air....its the sudden stop that hurts. I hate Hurricane Sandy. I hate FEMA and i hate the blasted insurance companies.
  • tsacchtsacch Posts: 2,929 ✭✭✭
    bump
    Family, kids, coins, sports (playing not watching), jet skiing, wakeboarding, Big Air....no one ever got hurt in the air....its the sudden stop that hurts. I hate Hurricane Sandy. I hate FEMA and i hate the blasted insurance companies.
  • nankrautnankraut Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭
    Well, I'm just not knowledgable enough to judge this one...but it's been cleaned or whizzed, I think.image
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  • relayerrelayer Posts: 10,570 ✭

    I think they got carried away after trying to clean the fingerprint off the obverse
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  • legacycoinlegacycoin Posts: 231
    It appears to be a proof, but it's definitely not 64/65 material. Looks 60/61 at best, and probably been cleaned.....
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  • darktonedarktone Posts: 8,437 ✭✭✭
    not a proof in my opinion- look how mushy the denticles are but does it really matter on junk coin like this? My guess it's about a $125 coin proof or not. mike
  • ccexccex Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭
    Any time I see an eBay PowerSeller post a raw "Proof 64/65" Barber with a Buy It Now at Graysheet bid for PR-60 I hit the back button. I can't tell from the pictures exacty what's wrong. but will eat my hat if this coin slabs at PCGS or NGC at PR64 or above. I have a larger collection of funky hats (many ghand-made in West Africa) than even Thelonious Monk had, so in case the high bidder is a member of this forum and gets lucky, he/she can ask me to eat a porkpie, fedora, kente cloth skullcap, or even yarmulke from Ouagadougou.

    Please, only one hat ingestion per offer. (Egestions mailed to the winning bidder at no additional cost, upon request).
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  • Prometheus183Prometheus183 Posts: 385
    No opinion on the coin itself, but the metal I can comment on. Appears to be chemically damaged and luster challenged. I know lighting and digital imaging can play tricks on the eye, but the angle of light to dark ratio makes it appear to have been not only cleaned, but polished as well.

    Craig
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  • XpipedreamRXpipedreamR Posts: 8,059 ✭✭
    I believe it is a proof, and I believe that it a crappy scan. I also believe that there's no way in hell it is PR65 or even 64!
  • ARCOARCO Posts: 4,391 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would guess the coin has been cleaned and shined up. A proof coin should be bought professionally graded. There are many proofs and it is not worth the cost wondering what the coin grades, because with proofs you can get hairlines up to 64 and they will not show up in a scan at all.

    It could be a proof 61 with hairlines up the wazoo, or even a cleaned and rubbed on AU. Who knows, and why take a chance unless you can see the coin in person?

    Tyler
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,241 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Definitely proof.
    Andy Lustig

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  • WindycityWindycity Posts: 3,500 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No way... maybe proof but heavily cleaned.
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  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    I see Proof and don't see any cleaning that I can prove but I assume it is since I see old fingerprints & stains. It has some marks around the left stars & on the cheek that I wouldn't want to see on a 65.
    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
  • NoGvmntNoGvmnt Posts: 1,126 ✭
    To me the fields look photoshopped.

    Jim
  • MFHMFH Posts: 11,720 ✭✭✭✭
    Its a cleaned proof. PR 58.
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