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My newest Buffalo. Do you like it? - GRADE POSTED!

ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
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Anyone care to guess the grade?


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Almost forgot to post the grade - PCGS MS64.

Most guesses were MS66 which is what I would grade it in-hand. With a single exception, it's the nicest 64 or 65 I've seen in the last three years and the finest strike I've ever seen in any grade for the date.



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  • ram1946ram1946 Posts: 762 ✭✭
    Very nice! Congratulations. Easily a 64, maybe even 65 depending on whether the horizontal marks above the date are on the coin or simply marks on the holder.
  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    The horizontal marks above the date are part of the Indian's robe. These lines were strengthened on the master die in 1917.
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  • p8ntp8nt Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭
    That looks 65 to me.
  • TrinkettsTrinketts Posts: 1,699 ✭
    That is one of the most hammered 1917's I have ever seen... Look how crisp LIBERTY is..

    Can't see if there are many marks on it... But I am going to say MS64...
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  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i> That is one of the most hammered 1917's I have ever seen... Look how crisp LIBERTY is.. >>


    Good eye Trinketts. This coin has such a strong strike, I honest thought it might be one of the specimen pieces that were reportedly produced (see 1917 Proofs).

    After a closer inspection, the faint die erosion on the Indian's neck gives it away as a business strike. Still, it has the finest strike of any 1917 Buffalo in any grade that I've ever seen.

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  • WindycityWindycity Posts: 3,524 ✭✭✭✭✭
    64+.... nice coin, great strike!
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  • TrinkettsTrinketts Posts: 1,699 ✭


    << <i>

    << <i> That is one of the most hammered 1917's I have ever seen... Look how crisp LIBERTY is.. >>


    Good eye Trinketts. This coin has such a strong strike, I honest thought it might be one of the specimen pieces that were reportedly produced (see 1917 Proofs).

    After a closer inspection, the faint die erosion on the Indian's neck gives it away as a business strike. Still, it has the finest strike of any 1917 Buffalo in any grade that I've ever seen. >>



    The hair detail alone should put it in a 65 or 66 holder... But the lack of luster is what I think keeps it from going higer.... Hold on to that one.
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  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    Man, you guys are tough!

    And it's got way above average luster for the date. The image doesn't show it well. Sorry.



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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    66
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  • pursuitoflibertypursuitofliberty Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Do I like it? Most Definitively!!!

    What a great strike and outstanding surfaces!! I would think it's high-end 65 / 66.

    Thanks for sharing!


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  • AZLARRYAZLARRY Posts: 1,189 ✭✭
    You have to love that one. Depending on luster I would say 65 shot at 66.
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  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,484 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I see no real identifiable weakness anywhere that pops out at me.

    It is probably the best-struck specimen I have seen for 1917.

    Probably, and this bothers me not at all, but I say it for grading:

    It is missing that certain "flash" that graders love to see on high-end coins.

    I really love the specimen.

    It's a 66 on strike alone. But I would give it a 67 cos I like it.

    Hope this helps

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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,442 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice one. Yummmy to the eye and it's got that strike that makes them old buffaloes so unique... One can see every last detail. I think it is easily a 66. This coin exhibits every bit of it's original luster, no distinguising or distracting marks that I see. Perfect strike on the obverse and reverse (no die weakness).... Of course, at PCGS.... well at PCGS, I think they'd agree with me.
  • koynekwestkoynekwest Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A VERY nice coin. 100% fully struck-business strikes just don't come much better struck than this (I have seen a 1913-D Var 1 a touch sharper-as good as any Matte proof and better than some.)
  • dizzyfoxxdizzyfoxx Posts: 9,823 ✭✭✭
    image Buffaloimage I'll say MS66
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  • HootHoot Posts: 867 ✭
    Sweet coin! What a strike! Looks like there may be some marks on the Indian's cheek that could hold it to a 65, but I'd otherwise say a 66.

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  • gyocomgdgyocomgd Posts: 2,582 ✭✭✭
    Lordy, that is some coin. I've seen 66s with minimal surface markings. In a perfect world, the strike would compensate for those and make it a 66.
    (But let's not go pq 66, that would be greedy.)
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  • 09sVDB09sVDB Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭
    MS66
  • gyocomgdgyocomgd Posts: 2,582 ✭✭✭
    Had to come back and look at it again. Drool-icious. Way to go Christopher.
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  • GemineyeGemineye Posts: 5,374 ✭
    ms 66
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  • buffnutbuffnut Posts: 933
    Looks a lot like a Teletrade coin that was slabbed PCGS MS64. Awesome coin!
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  • MrKelsoMrKelso Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭
    I would have to put a Grade of WoWimage on that Buff image


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  • JoshLJoshL Posts: 656 ✭✭
    I am starting to like the Buffalo Nickels image
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  • yellowjacketyellowjacket Posts: 1,809 ✭
    MS 66...definitely. Nice catch.

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  • gyocomgdgyocomgd Posts: 2,582 ✭✭✭

    Oops, accidental post. But worth a TTT anyway to look at that coin again...
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  • NumismanicNumismanic Posts: 2,582 ✭✭✭
    MS65, very nice! image
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  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    WOW, look at that horn/tail/LIBERTY -- I could go on and on ... 66 all day long and a great reference piece.
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  • Coinhusker1Coinhusker1 Posts: 3,560 ✭
    66. Nice coin, hammered strike.
  • capecape Posts: 1,621 ✭
    shamika, that coin looks very familiar! did you win it in the anr sale?
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  • MJHMJH Posts: 538 ✭✭
    MS 66, Nice 1917.
  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i> Looks a lot like a Teletrade coin that was slabbed PCGS MS64. Awesome coin! >>


    The very same! I rarely ever bid on Teletrade coins, but this one was head and shoulders better than any other 64 I've ever seen. Couldn't let it get away.

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  • MFHMFH Posts: 11,720 ✭✭✭✭


    Great pick up. I rarely look at coins I already own in the same or lower grades. Very well struck 1917 and every bit a 65 ( not enough snap for a 66 ).
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  • UncleJoeUncleJoe Posts: 2,542 ✭✭✭
    Almost forgot to post the grade - PCGS MS64.

    Wow, this looks every bit a 65 (of course we all realize that grading from a pic is not sufficient but I believe Shamika when he writes that this is about the best 64 he has ever seen).

    Joe.

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