I don't know why I feel compelled to write about this...

XpipedreamR

I like 1943 cents. I have them all in PCGS MS67. I think they're neat.

I was at a coin show this week, and I saw a dealer had an MS68...so I was all excited to check it out.

The thing was a turd. It had a big(relatively speaking) splotch on the reverse, and scattered dings on the obverse and reverse.

I think my 66's and 67's look better than it. What a let-down



I guess you know what they say about buying the coin vs. the holder...

mgoodm3

Talking about it is the first step to recovery.

Myqqy

How do you feel now???

XpipedreamR

Much better, thanks

numonebuyer

Why do you think the coin graded so highly?

XpipedreamR

XpipedreamR

Seriously, though...


I think it was possibly a low-end 68 technically, but the eye appeal was just not there. I wouldn't have paid 67 money for it.

airplanenut

Is it possible it turned?

XpipedreamR

Is there something that can be done to a steel cent pre-submission to improve its appearance, that might then go bad...I don't know. The splotch had been there for some time, I would suspect.


Maybe I was being too hard on the coin. I was really expecting the be impressed, and I wasn't at all.

Myqqy

Maybe I was being too hard on the coin. I was really expecting the be impressed, and I wasn't at all.

MS68s should be impressive....

lordmarcovan

Even if it had been a nice 68, it wouldn't have been worth the price leap up from a 67, IMHO.

What's an PCGS MS68 1943-P Lincoln go for, these days? Back in my Registry type set era, I seem to recall they were goin' for about $900, which blew my mind. Then it dropped down to around $600, I think. I was happy enough to stay with my $45 PCGS MS67. (And I had a '43-S at that price).

numonebuyer

IMHO, an MS-68 should make every numismatist drool.

Neptune

it was tuff then.

merz2

XPD
That grade of coin should have outstanding ete appeal.IMHO as well !

RickMilauskas

Maybe it's like when you hear all sorts of hype about a movie and then you finally go and see it but are disappointed because it didn't live up to your expectations.

Robgetty

I have actually started trying to collect AU58 3 cent nickels just because it
seems that they have better eye appeal than lower end unc coins. (Besides,
no one sends a coin like that in if they think it is circulated, so you already
have 1 vote of confidence in it's quality!)

I have often wondered how coins with no visual appeal get the MS67/68
grades when a nice MS65 looks far better.

Shamika

I agree. A Wheat cent graded MS68 should leave your head spinning. The eye appeal should be nothing less than spectacular!

ANACONDA

Strangely enough, within the past 3 or 4 months, I was at the grocery store and on the ground at the check out isle was an incredibly pristine 1943 cent. I am not joking. Where it came from, I have no earthly idea. It was clearly uncirculated and had wonderful surfaces. I gave it to one of my girls.

mercurynut

You description of that coins sounds a lot like my last date.