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seateddimeseateddime Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭
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I will give you 1 hint, it is slabbed problem free

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  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,722 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Based on the obverse I was thinking XF45, then I saw the reverse and it has to get yanked down to a VF.

    I don't even think I can give it a 35 because of that reverse.

    VF30.
  • jmj3esqjmj3esq Posts: 5,421 ✭
    EF40
  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭
    This date has common strike weakness in the wreath of the reverse. As a result I suspect that in terms of wear, it might be better than it looks. Still, I'd say VF-30 overall, but I'm betting ANACS went EF-40.
  • NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 10,997 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like a VF35.
  • BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭
    VF30
  • TheRavenTheRaven Posts: 4,148 ✭✭✭✭
    XF, weak strike
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  • busco69busco69 Posts: 815 ✭✭
    EF 40 Thanks nice coin.
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  • seateddimeseateddime Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭
    no one has it yet
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  • partagaspartagas Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭
    vf35
    If I say something in the woods, and my wife isn't around. Am I still wrong?
  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭


    << <i>no one has it yet >>

    45?!?!?!
  • RickMilauskasRickMilauskas Posts: 1,985 ✭✭✭
    25?!?!?
  • UncleJoeUncleJoe Posts: 2,551 ✭✭✭
    AU-55

    Very little wear on this coin IMO (that I can tell from the pic).

    Don't know about luster as coin appears washed out but that may be the pic.

    Joe.
  • 123cents123cents Posts: 7,178 ✭✭✭
    VF-25.
    image
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,606 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>no one has it yet >>



    That's not the point. There is the grade ANACS gave it and the REAL grade. Guessing what the TPG gave it is one thing; what the grade is can be another.

    VF-30. The reverse grades that and the obverse despite EF sharpness gete net graded because the straigth scratch from Ms. Liberty's arm to the right field. The surfaces also look a bit scruffy.
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  • seateddimeseateddime Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭
    keep em coming
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  • HighReliefHighRelief Posts: 3,709 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No way to tell from the pictures you took image
  • UncleJoeUncleJoe Posts: 2,551 ✭✭✭
    Who's closest? image

    Joe.
  • seateddimeseateddime Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Who's closest? image

    Joe. >>



    There are some close ones
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  • 123cents123cents Posts: 7,178 ✭✭✭
    AU-50.
    image
  • seateddimeseateddime Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭


    << <i>AU-50. >>



    I wish
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  • LeianaLeiana Posts: 4,349 ✭
    It looks lika a VF 30 to me, but since you said that's not right, I guess it was market graded higher. EF 40.

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  • seateddimeseateddime Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭
    image


    Undergraded a bit?
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  • BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭


    << <i>no one has it yet >>


    You said "grade this dime," not guess what grade ANACS gave it. I stand by my response based on the pic!
  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭
    Anyone who could pay VF20 money for that coin is laughing all the way to the bank.
  • UncleJoeUncleJoe Posts: 2,551 ✭✭✭
    Well then it is VF-20.

    But I don't agree with that!

    Joe.
  • LeianaLeiana Posts: 4,349 ✭
    Indeed, maybe a little bit.

    -Amanda
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  • RickMilauskasRickMilauskas Posts: 1,985 ✭✭✭
    Holy cats!!! Look at the Liberty.image
  • seateddimeseateddime Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭
    Barry,

    I agree with your grade. I think it is a VF30 maybe 35
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  • comoncentscomoncents Posts: 131
    VF30 Struck through grease
  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Holy cats!!! Look at the Liberty.image >>

    And the head. And the pole is fully defined as it crosses over Liberty's arm.

    This is no VF-20. I'd happily buy this one for VF-30 money.
  • seateddimeseateddime Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭
    this coin trends for $100 in VF but seated dime collectors know what these are really going for.

    Let's just say I paid true VF money but well over trends.
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  • coppercoinscoppercoins Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭
    Hmm...I looked at the obverse and muttered "45," then looked at the reverse and muttered "40." Then I scrolled down and saw the slabbed grade and said, "hmmm."
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  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭


    << <i>this coin trends for $100 in VF but seated dime collectors know what these are really going for. >>

    Yep. No way anyone is getting this coin for close to $100.

    The price sheets vastly underrate the 1861-S through 1868-S dates in problem-free VF and above. Unfortunately, until our second house sells, I'll have no coin budget so even if I found coins like this, I'd be tortured.
  • seateddimeseateddime Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭
    where is the 2nd house ?

    we can trade dimes for real estate or maybe the buyer is on the boards right nowimage
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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    i agreed with 20.
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  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭


    << <i>i agreed with 20. >>

    The problem is that this date usually comes weakly struck in many areas. But there are some of the areas of the coin which are fully struck which have considerably better than VF-20 details.
  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Red x's?
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  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,332 ✭✭✭✭✭
    nevermind....
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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,606 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The question is, have the obverse surfaces and perhaps the reverse as well been damaged by something like being buried in the ground? If so ANACS may have net graded it. I said in my VF-30 grade that the surfces looked "scuffy."
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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    My take on it was: I think that there's too much wear on the head, arms, breast, legs for EF. So I went to 30 initially, then I looked at the rev and it has worse wear than the obv, so I went to 20.
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  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My guess was straight 30. No way it's a 20. At the very least it should've been given a 25 in my opinion.

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  • seateddimeseateddime Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭
    look at the flag detail on the arm and the corn on the reverse, these are the dead giveaways. The strike on the 63-65 S mints are not good as pointed out on the Seated message boards by Brian Greer yesterday. Look at the strike on the right where the shield has all the lines yet the OF AMER is very weakly struck.

    That is a strike issue which is known, not wear.
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  • FrankcoinsFrankcoins Posts: 4,571 ✭✭✭
    EF45
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