A nice example of a high grade holed coin.

krazyace5

Someone posted about this topic recently.

holed coin

sliderider

That should never happen to a silver trime, IMO. PCI should have never given that coin an AU55, no matter what the details look like.

dorkkarl

they didn't. they gave it a "au-55 holed coin" grade. to think a single "number" grade could be assigned to such a coin would be ludicrous.

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mirabela

Ouch. A month or two ago I was in a shop near here and the guy had a 1916(P) merc in 65 with full split bands -- and a hole. He wanted $1. I passed. It was a great coin for a buck, but I just couldn't stand taking on a coin with severe problems after weeding out so many from the collection I built as a kid.

All I can say about that coin, and others like it, is -- it sucks. Too bad.

LanLord

Perhaps some charm for a chain given to a young lady a nearly 150 years ago?

eyoung429

Nah, this was the one given to the lady back then.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=39473&item=3928965934&rd=1