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Tuff to Grade...1903 One Dollar Gold Comm...Grade revealed:

SmittysSmittys Posts: 9,876 ✭✭✭✭✭
What do you think..??
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Shipping back from PCGS MS61...???

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 45,301 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hard to tell from your pics. If the luster is flashy, it could be a MS65 or better. Small coins like this are hard to grade.

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  • It's difficult to tell, because I don't now what the perfect original is supposed to look like, but I'll guess AU, on the assumption that there's wear over Jefferson's ear.
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  • TheRavenTheRaven Posts: 4,143 ✭✭✭✭
    I will go AU-55 because of the bit of ear wear.....
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  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 12,471 ✭✭✭✭✭
    AU-58, due to wear over ear. Don't know if they "market grade" these or not.

    If there is good luster (which there appears to be), this is a super coin, and a PQ AU-58.
  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,672 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think I like it almost as much as the one I have in a PCGS MS64 slab.

    I don't see much lustre but that could be the scan/pic, not the fault of the coin.

    If there is lustre I'll give it a 64. If no or little lustre, 55.
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,427 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You might not like my response, but here it is.

    The coin has Mint State or virtually Mint State sharpness, but it appears that the piece has been cleaned with an abrasive, like baking soda, which is dimmed the mint luster. The only luster that is left appears to be around the outside letters. As a result the coin as a washed out appearance, which I’ve tried to reverse using some picture fixing software, but can’t. This indicates to me that the picture is accurate

    In the old days this would make the coin undesirable and perhaps subject to “altered surfaces” body bag designation. Today it probably reduces it something like an AU-50 if it gets into a holder.
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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    AU
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  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    I think it is cleaned, too, based solely on the picture.
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 45,301 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That "wear over the ear" that everyone is commenting on is actually a weak strike not unlike what you see on some Morgan dollars. The gold dollar planchets were very thin and weak strikes were not that unusual.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.

  • NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 10,984 ✭✭✭✭✭
    AU58 or

    MS62 if it has some luster.
  • TheRavenTheRaven Posts: 4,143 ✭✭✭✭
    No question that it has been cleaned which sucks.....
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  • AU, if not cleaned...
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  • SmittysSmittys Posts: 9,876 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Grade back MS61.....???
    Hey a least it's MS

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