1812 Large Cent - Grade opinions

relayer

Placid

Net 15

rhedden

PCGS VF-25 (if they grade it)

tjkillian

Color looks fantastic, if original, a very nice coin. PCGS will grade it VF-30 easily. They are very generous on these coins. So many had a hard life, but this one seems to have escaped the ravages of time.

tom

relayer

I graded it 30 and bought it as an upgrade. I won't be sending it to PCGS until it's time to upgrade again. I'm not sure if they would forgive the scratches near the "ONE" though. I did.

Baley

very nice snipe! was watching that one, love the smooth surfaces (so many of these are porous)

Looks Very Fine from here.

relayer

Actually the snipe looks good on paper, with only 1 second left, but there were 5 bidders in the last 25 seconds and my first snipe came back saying it was too low. I bumped it up $10 and just made it under the wire.

BillJones

VF sharpness, mildly grandular, has probably been cleaned and retoned.

PGGS and NGC won't grade it, but don't feel badly. They won't grade grade my coin either, and it came from the Ruby Collection. If the grading services were as hard on silver and gold that has been played with as they are on copper, most of those coins would be in body bags and not holders. Copper coin grading is very political.

This type is very hard to find this sharp, especially in this market. Here's my coin, which was a two time loser. Today it's in an ANACS AU-50 holder, where from market grade prospective it belongs.