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Bag marks on NGC grades MS coins

worldcoinguyworldcoinguy Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭✭
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I was cruising through some of the Heritage goodies coming up for auction, and I had to do a double take on this one. It is a 1852 rouble slabbed by NGC in MS-61. Am I being overly critical, or are the "bag marks" borderline excessive for a MS-61 coin?

1852 rouble



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  • coinpicturescoinpictures Posts: 5,345 ✭✭✭
    Your link is to an 1844 Ruble NGC AU50 that looks cleaned out the wazoo.

    The link you want is This one, and yes, it looks beat to hell and back.
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  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,080 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No wear on the coin but loads of nicks and bagmarks. Still it's uncirculated though. I'd call it an MS60.
  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but I have seen worse graded higher than MS61-part of the reasons I don't like slabbing...
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    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,438 ✭✭✭✭✭
    61 is not unreasonable for this one based on the picture... I may reconsider if I saw this one in hand

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