Bechtler $5 - Guess the NGC Grade (Answer on 1st post)
Lakesammman
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I like Guess the Grade threads - hope you do too. The coin is more lustrous than the pic and is NGC AU58. It's tricky to get the luster and details on one pic - will post 4 on the next one, 2 with details, 2 with luster. 
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rainbowroosie April 1, 2003
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Yep - much nicer than my pathetic picture.
but seriously solid xf45.
I'll buy Pioneer from all of these people.
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i don't get it. pioneer is a sugar company to me.
i don't get it. pioneer is a sugar company to me.
Pioneer refers to "pioneer" or "territorial" gold coins, those struck by private mints in the 19th century US.
I think Regulated means that we are all undergrading the coin, and he would like to buy similar coins that we grade at prices commensurate with our grades, In fairness to us, in addition to the disclaimer about grading from photographs blah, blah, blah, these types of coins are not coins with which many of us have familiarity and in addition were crudely struck, such that it would be natural for those uninitiated among us to undergrade.
from the pictures and lacks clear luster.
hence no AU for it.
if the coin is graded MS i quit.
I used to dream of them when out metal detecting antebellum sites in Western NC- one local history of Asheville, where I lived (not too far from Rutherfordton where the Bechtlers were struck), described how the coins had circulated locally, and how folks used to bend 'em in doorframes to test the gold in 'em.
I'd have settled for a bent one!
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Reminds me of a 150g N.C. $5 Bechtler that came through my local dealer's shop mid-2005. It was sent out to PCGS and confirmed to be legit (AU53 or 55 as I recall). After giving the owner (who had no clue to its value or authenticity as it had been a family owned pc for generations), it promptly disappeared again. The $100 appraisal fee hardly compensated for the research, grading, and market value analysis that was done for the owner.
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A coin in hand is worth a thousand pictures. The luster is there
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I did not see regulated's post and would have graded it AU anyway, as much based on deductive reasoning and knowing the kinds of coins Lakesammman has recently bought as from any information present on the photo. There does appear to be some hidden luster in the photo, the kind we often see in original southern gold.
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