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Did PCGS drop their quality level on Mercury Dimes?

fcloudfcloud Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭
This is a coin off of Heritages website. The image below it is from my set.

MS67FB
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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?
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President, Racine Numismatic Society 2013-2014; Variety Resource Dimes; See 6/8/12 CDN for my article on Winged Liberty Dimes; Ebay

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  • robertprrobertpr Posts: 6,862 ✭✭✭
    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.
  • 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
  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭
    Your coin looks correctly graded (or perhaps overgraded) due to the wek strike. The letters in "STATES" are all flat.
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  • fcloudfcloud Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭
    The gouges in the cheek on the Heritage coin are a lot worse then a weak strike!

    President, Racine Numismatic Society 2013-2014; Variety Resource Dimes; See 6/8/12 CDN for my article on Winged Liberty Dimes; Ebay

  • LucyBopLucyBop Posts: 14,001 ✭✭✭
    I don't know man...

    Those cats are strict as hell everytime I send some fishy lures in.....
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  • fcloudfcloud Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭
    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.

    President, Racine Numismatic Society 2013-2014; Variety Resource Dimes; See 6/8/12 CDN for my article on Winged Liberty Dimes; Ebay



  • << <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:

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