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Here's another awesome Barber I got to photograph. Guess the grade?

p8ntp8nt Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭
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This is another coin from the Barber Half set which I recently imaged. See if you can guess the grade.

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  • librtyheadlibrtyhead Posts: 1,116 ✭✭✭
    I'll play ms- 63 nice coin! um..........I mean 64
  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    nice pics. at least 64.
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  • TWQGTWQG Posts: 3,145 ✭✭
    Nice 58.
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  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
    image
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  • NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 10,997 ✭✭✭✭✭
    MS64

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  • MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,188 ✭✭✭✭
    AU 63.
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  • 123cents123cents Posts: 7,178 ✭✭✭
    MS-63.
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  • DennisHDennisH Posts: 14,010 ✭✭✭✭✭
    65
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  • jayboxxjayboxx Posts: 1,613 ✭✭
    Nice work Ben...64?
  • p8ntp8nt Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭
    No one has guessed the grade correctly. This picture may help.

    image
  • BigMooseBigMoose Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭
    MS 66 and beautiful!
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  • stev32kstev32k Posts: 2,098 ✭✭✭
    I see no hits or marks on either side. There appears to be a die polish line on the obverse, but other than that I can't see any imperfections at all. I have seen better strikes, but this one is not too bad. So Ill stick my neck out and say MS66 or maybe 67.
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  • TWQGTWQG Posts: 3,145 ✭✭
    Well?
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  • ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,656 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There is a nearly horizontal line from between stars 3 and 4 almost to the lower area of the nose. Is this a scratch / scuff mark, or is it on the holder? Ditto re something similar on the ribbon to the middle of the neck. If they're on the holder, it's no big deal. Otherwise, it would have a negative impact on the coin's grade.

    I don't have a problem with the strike, the color is attractive, but on my monitor, the coin doesn't appear to have much in the way of cartwheel luster (though I realize it is difficult to image toned coins).
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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    58
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  • JJMJJM Posts: 8,080 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I dont know but hellava pic !
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  • Musky1011Musky1011 Posts: 3,904 ✭✭✭✭
    I'll say AU58 was my first thought so I will go with it

    but I really have no clue
    i see 58 was taken so how about MS67

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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Listen up, I am a very old Bear,

    Who knows how long I have, tell us

    the grade already.

    If that coin is a 58, its the finest 58 in creation.

    Actually, I am unable to venture a guess, other then

    you are setting us all up.image

    It looks like it has slight wear on the nose , lips and leaves.

    However, that may just be the light is hitting.
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  • MFHMFH Posts: 11,720 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>There is a nearly horizontal line from between stars 3 and 4 almost to the lower area of the nose. Is this a scratch / scuff mark, or is it on the holder? Ditto re something similar on the ribbon to the middle of the neck. If they're on the holder, it's no big deal. Otherwise, it would have a negative impact on the coin's grade.

    I don't have a problem with the strike, the color is attractive, but on my monitor, the coin doesn't appear to have much in the way of cartwheel luster (though I realize it is difficult to image toned coins). >>



    As mentioned, if the marks are on the holder, then I'd venture a MS 66. If they are on the coin...which for some reason I doubt, then its a 64.

    Final Answer: MS 66
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  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
    I agree with bear...48 hours is long enough

    it's an
    XF-40
    XF-45
    AU-50
    AU-55
    AU-58
    MS-60
    MS-61
    MS-62
    MS-63

    Did we guess the grade?
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  • Musky1011Musky1011 Posts: 3,904 ✭✭✭✭
    53
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  • Musky1011Musky1011 Posts: 3,904 ✭✭✭✭
    68
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  • Musky1011Musky1011 Posts: 3,904 ✭✭✭✭
    67
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  • Musky1011Musky1011 Posts: 3,904 ✭✭✭✭
    66
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  • Musky1011Musky1011 Posts: 3,904 ✭✭✭✭
    VERY nice coin and some excelent photography thereimage

    Jim
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    Menomonee Falls Wisconsin USA

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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Its a number between 1 and MS-70image
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  • granpagrafgranpagraf Posts: 292
    I would say NGC = MS-64
    PCGS = MS-63
    Very Nice Coin anyways!image
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  • StuartStuart Posts: 9,793 ✭✭✭✭✭
    MS-64

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  • TahoeDaleTahoeDale Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭
    Proof 64, with some very nice deep toning
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  • STONESTONE Posts: 15,275 ✭
    Definitely a 66.

    I would have said 67 if it weren't for the cheek and light marks on the reverse.
  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,594 ✭✭✭✭✭
    AU58 but slabbed as an MS grade.
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  • p8ntp8nt Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭
    Haha you guys have some funny answers. Ive been at school so I couldnt respond until now.

    The grade is MS66. Good job to those of you that guessed it. To those of you that didn't, what were you thinking?! image
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    I was gonna say that, honest. Only, I didn't want

    to look easy.image
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  • yevrahyevrah Posts: 143 ✭✭
    imageIt's a beauty. It sure would look nice in my 1899 Registry Mint set.

    I need all the 1899 Barbers except the 1899 P 10c!! Not many come up for sale graded MS63/64 which generally is the level of $$$$
    I can afford.

    I am always open to news of any of them for saleimage
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  • MFHMFH Posts: 11,720 ✭✭✭✭

    Not owning a MS 66 Barber Half, I sure have looked at my fair share of them though.

    Nice coin - for a quick second I did think it was a Proof, but the rims were rounded...that was my determing reason for the MS grade.

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  • oldcameoproofsguyoldcameoproofsguy Posts: 3,174 ✭
    Very nice coin! I like it a lot.
  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,642 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Beautiful. I thought 64, and it very well may have 6 lustre but I don't see it in this image.
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  • ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,656 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Guess the lines I alluded to were on the holder, not the coin. How is the cartwheel luster, though? It does not come through on the image at all, and as you know, many of these in Unc. don't have much of it.
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