Im excited !! first time submitting across the street --- Grades are *IN*

Hyperion

mainly because I wanted to cross a 1994 $2 gold maple leaf (1/15 oz) from an ANACS holder to an NGC holder to match my $2 platinum maple leaf of the same year.

Other coins going in:

1988 $100 bowhead whale (I know it doesn't have too much of a premium..but this coin looks PERFECT to my eyes)
a 1902 matte proof crown (yep, Storks) Im just curious what it will come back. (was ANACS PF61)
and a 1972 Proof Winnie Dollar, also looks PERFECT to me.

I know they're not high value, but Ive never submitted and wanted to try my luck.

Also have some liteside going over, but Im sure you're not interested in that stuff

SYRACUSIAN

The crown will come back 63, it looked seriously undergraded and I was among the underbidders.

Stork

Hmmmm...I think this will be interesting. I wouldn't expect a 63 but we'll see .

Cathy

Hyperion

<< <i>Hmmmm...I think this will be interesting. I wouldn't expect a 63 but we'll see .

Cathy >>



I really wont be disappointed on anything it receives, I love the look and the reverse, but Im curious.

Hyperion

Grades have been returned, I'd be lying to say I wasn't slightly disappointed.

The 1994 $2 Gold maple leaf crossed to MS69, so, mintage is about 3k, top pop - that's good.

Bowhead Whale:



Bought this coin from michael and he said it was the definition of cameo. I agreed ! so does NGC



Here's the slight disapointment. I thought this was really a fine looking coin in-hand (I still agree, and I hope to keep it for as long as I can), shame that it got the grade it did ! maybe there are like microscratches or something that I can't see in my light. I mean, are they supertough on matte proofs ? I gues I dont have a good idea of what they're SUPPOSED to look like.

(There's an eyelash or something on this pic I notice now)





I dont know what to this of a PR60... in my mind, this is like the worst of all possible proofs, 1 step from the bodybag. I might being too hard of George


Here's the goof I sent in, just because I wanted to see if it was ultracam, it wasn't but it still amuses me:

Hyperion

the more i think about it, is if there are light scratches on the reverse I can understand the grade, for some reason when I have this in hand the matte finish blurrs them out to my eye.. I still LOVE the design !!

Just looked up the census... 1/0, none worse

Stork

I was really hoping it would go higher for you...I know when I sent it to ANACS I had thought it might do a bit better than what it did.

The story goes that the mint workers wiped the matte proofs down because of their unusual appearance, so many of them left the mint with the hairlines. But I agree with you, I love the design. I also love the matte finish the best.

Cathy

Hyperion

<< <i>I was really hoping it would go higher for you...I know when I sent it to ANACS I had thought it might do a bit better than what it did.

The story goes that the mint workers wiped the matte proofs down because of their unusual appearance, so many of them left the mint with the hairlines. But I agree with you, I love the design. I also love the matte finish the best.

Cathy >>



that's completely cool, it's just a learning experience, and knowing what I know now I would have done nothing different. the coin, IMHO, rocks !

coinkat

the 1902 proofs can be a challenge to grade...

1jester

<< <i>the 1902 proofs can be a challenge to grade... >>



Have any of these matte proofs been found without the hairlines? I'm a bit shocked at the low grade on Hyperion's example.

rhound1977

I like the 1902 Crown!

ajaan

In the last couple months NGC has gotten very tight in their grading IMO. They are also BBing a lot of coins that shouldn't be BBed IMO.

SYRACUSIAN

I'm shocked by the PF60, I was the more optimistic.


Here's mine which is still raw in the album.

Hyperion

I looked at the NGC pop on those coins just to see how other people are doing:


1902 G.BRITAIN CROWN PFMA 37 (60 - 1
61 - 2
62 - 13
63 - 13
64 - 8)

doesn't seem terribly high for an entire population, but I dont know the series well.