In Your Opinion? What is the Rarest Grade?

braddick

Not the most difficult, but the one grade you hardly ever see on any series.

I'd think it's AU53 but I'm open to other and better suggestions.

Bear

AU-58 Most have already been regraded up to, from MS-60 to 63.

Whats left, is usually not the grade listed but more then likely AU-50

down to XF-45.

chabot510

MS 60

shirohniichan

<< <i>Not the most difficult, but the one grade you hardly ever see on any series.

I'd think it's AU53 but I'm open to other and better suggestions. >>



Hmmm... I guess I should thank PCGS for grading my common AU55 coins AU53, then.

dizzyfoxx

MS61 seems to be one that I don't see very often.

rmoss

<< <i>MS61 seems to be one that I don't see very often. >>



I have an ANACS graded Norse Medal, thick, that is MS-61. It's the only 61 I own and you don't see very many of them. I have to agree on the MS-61.

ER

PO1

Bear

Beauty wise, I would rather have a really top of the line

lustrous AU-58 then most dog 60-63s. However, I would have to

agree that PO-1 is scarce because most folks would not send one in for grading.

JrGMan2004

PO01

BAJJERFAN

My lone ms61. Surprisingly I don't have an xf40 or xf 45 in my collection nor a 67 or better. No ms60 or anything 30 or under. I'm thinking that au53 is fairly common among the tougher date Morgans. I have 4 a 79-cc 92-s 93-cc and 95-o. I would take a 93-s in 40 or better tho.

construct

I'll guess AG-03. Mr. Braddick has probably upped the pops on FR-02s and PO-01s.

michael

70

michael

michael

all the way to the bank

techeff

AU59

gyocomgd

MS61 also gets my vote. I've never seen it in a Buffalo nickel, or on $2.50 Indian gold (only pix).

DennisH

Poor-01

MikeInFL

PR 60

Coxe

Poor-01 hands down. You have to have a coin so naturally worn that it is at the end of its recognizability yet has the fortune of having enough design legible to attribute by type, date, mintmark, whatever are appropriate. It's the green flash of its sunset. You can catch it anywhere in its decline from AU down, but that last opportunity is a quite brief once it passes the threshold of Fair-02.

TwoSides2aCoin

Kindergarten....










....... it's a rare Grade to have to go through TWICE

coinlieutenant

MS60

jdimmick

Forgetting about the Pr-1 and 70 grades

Id go with Ms-60
then Au-53

PerryHall

In US gold, MS60 is a rare grade. Either a baggy, ugly coin or a nice super slidder market graded 60 because its worth more that 58 money.

cladking

PR-35.

rec78

vf25

fivecents

PO01....by the time a coin receives enough wear to grade PO01 it usually has issues that will cause it to BB at the TPGS.

ColonialCoinUnion

MS60.

30AnvZ28

PO-01

CarsonCityGold

Rarest grade with no consideration for series? Slabbed - PO01. Raw MS60.

braddick

I do have an NGC proof trade dollar that crossed from ANACS PF03 to PF02.

I suppose anything in the low Proof circulated grades would have to be considered a "rare grade", usually not seen on inserts.

coppercoins

<< <i>Not the most difficult, but the one grade you hardly ever see on any series.

I'd think it's AU53 but I'm open to other and better suggestions. >>



Honestly I was thinking the exact same thing when I read the title to this thread. I think you hit it on the button.

Whitby

the accurate one............