Did PCGS drop their quality level on Mercury Dimes?

fcloud

This is a coin off of Heritages website. The image below it is from my set.

MS67FB

MS66FB (from my set) Notice the lack of marks on this coin versus the marks all over the coin from Heritage. Maybe I should have some of my coins regraded?

robertpr

Yes, a sample size of one coin does adequetly represent the total PCGS graded population and indicate a shift in grading of this series. Send in your entire collection. You may want to crack them all out to eliminate holder bias.

Newcomp103

The pricing seems off as well on Mercury Dimes, especially with the FB designation....I have a 1944-S MS67 FB...they have that listed at $370.00 I have dealers offering me less than 1/3...many saying they would half to sell it for half, and it is a blazer!!! much better than many FB's on Heritage now

Steve27

Your coin looks correctly graded (or perhaps overgraded) due to the wek strike. The letters in "STATES" are all flat.

fcloud

The gouges in the cheek on the Heritage coin are a lot worse then a weak strike!

LucyBop

I don't know man...

Those cats are strict as hell everytime I send some fishy lures in.....

fcloud

Lucy,

Me too! I have got bad results one more than one occasion. Now, what I have seen of the Mercury dimes Heritage has up right now, they are a bunch of over graded coins. It looks like someone sent in a bunch of rolls. Almost every one has a bunch of bag marks. I can't bellieve so many bag marks have become acceptable over a grade of 64. I have a 1939 dime I sent in that looked perfect, it was graded 64 and it blows away that 67 from Heritage.

bhartman35

<< <i>The gouges in the cheek on the Heritage coin are a lot worse then a weak strike! >>



I might just be missing it, but I don't see gouges on the cheek on the Heritage coin. It looks to me possibly like a break in the luster (i.e., a touch of dirt or what have you). On the other hand, both the L and the I show a little weakness in the strike, but I think yours shows as much, if not more weakness in the strike. Yours does have eye appeal that the other coin lacks, though.

Here's an MS-66 1940 Mercury that I just bought from Heritage off Ebay: