Very early date IHC for your consideration

39Special

Please take a look and provide your opinions as to grade. This is the only copper nickel indian cent I have, but I like it. Thanks!

guitarwes

Looks like a nice 64. Nice lustre.

wes

AskRaq

Pretty amazing - in my opinion.... I really like it!

duck620

from the pics,looks 64 to me.nice.

rhedden

There are a couple of faint spots and a few obverse hairlines, so I call it a 63. But it has a nice strike and luster, whereas many of these don't. I like it.

Raybob15239

I was going to say 64, but then thought that the insert looked like it could be an NGC holder, so I'm inflating my grade by 1: MS65.

ziggy29

Nice coin. I'd guess 63 based on what I see, limited to that grade by the spotting.

BBQnBLUES

Glad to see _another nice IH¢

You're peaking my interest in a set I put aside a few years ago

lope208

Beautiful! I have an 1862 that looks a lot like this in terms of color, luster etc. I was just looking at my collection last night and thinking how great it would be to find more IHC's that look like that.

GoldenEyeNumismatics

64

BECOKA

Very nice.

My guess fits with most everyone else's so I will keep you guessing.

UtahCoin

64ish

39Special

Thanks all, this is in an old NGC holder slabbed about 20 years ago. I'll need to loupe this again tonight, I think this one is almost completely mark free from my recollection. Even the tiny bit on the cheek area doesn't stand out as a "scratch" or hairline...it's completely non-reflective and almost more like something that resulted from the planchet, or the strike process itself...an inverted die crack (if that exists) is the best way I can describe how it looked under the loupe. The overall cheek area is probably better than any IHC I own, and that includes some nice 65's.

I'm thinking of submitting it as a crack out but was wondering if the strike would preclude gem status (first few feathers are weak at the tips, but the last ones are nice). Another poster said the strike is actually very good for this date, so I'm thinking more and more this one has a shot at 65.

EagleEye

The late CN series exhibits hub cracks. These cracks are into the metal on the hub which is a steel shank with a positive likeness of the coin without the date (prior to 1909 for cents). The cracks transfer to each die as a raised line, and then are again sunken on the resulting coins.

Die cracks are raised on the coin, hub cracks are sunken on the coin - and show up on many dies.

It is very useful to keep dies and hubs differentiated. Dies have a sunken image, hubs have a raised image.


I think you should leave it in the MS64 holder (if that is what it is). MS65 is wishful thinking.

robkool

MS64...

kryptonitecomics

Here's mine.....also in a very early NGC no line fatty...

pursuitofliberty

Nice looking luster and color.

I see it as a 64 at best ... only because of the striking deficiency in the forward feathers and lower left wreath. I do agree with assessment that 65 is wishful, and disagree with the fact that this is well struck for the date.