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clarkbar04clarkbar04 Posts: 4,979 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Note that I am in no way judging the seller, only the star designation.

In their newer holders I've seen plenty of ho hum stuff with a star, but this takes the cake.

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MS66 taste on an MS63 budget.

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  • Newcomp103Newcomp103 Posts: 2,223 ✭
    Not a bad looking coin...but certainly not even close to having "superior" eye appeal!
  • fcfc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭
    a market graded 64 with ho-hum toning gets a star. why am i not
    surprised.
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Speaking of taking the cake... I'd rather have a slice of cake then own that coin! imageimage
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • clarkbar04clarkbar04 Posts: 4,979 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Speaking of taking the cake... I'd rather have a slice of cake then own that coin! imageimage >>



    MMmm.. cake!!

    I'm off to the cake store.
    MS66 taste on an MS63 budget.
  • dizzyfoxxdizzyfoxx Posts: 9,823 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Not a bad looking coin...but certainly not even close to having "superior" eye appeal! >>



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  • adamlaneusadamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭
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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>image >>



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  • blu62vetteblu62vette Posts: 11,943 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not the most impressive coin..... good cartoon.
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  • adamlaneusadamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭
    The Sneetches

    The main character in this story essentially defrauds a whole society over that star. Everyone ends up happy, even the Sneetches. Penniless, but happy knowing that stars matter not.


    I love the expressions.
  • nicetoning42107nicetoning42107 Posts: 1,162
    That OP coin just may be the saddest looking Star coin I have ever seen.
    A lie told often enough becomes the truth. ~Vladimir Lenin
  • DoubleEagle59DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,377 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I guess all you need is a little multi-color peripheral toning and voila...a star!!
    "Gold is money, and nothing else" (JP Morgan, 1912)

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  • coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well with only a few hours left, it certainly hasn't been bid to "star" levels; so WGAF?image

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  • lcoopielcoopie Posts: 8,873 ✭✭✭✭✭
    maybe the seller didn't read Mark Goodmans new book
    and the coin has very good eye appeal
    but the photo doesn't
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  • adamlaneusadamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭
    I'm sorry, but even if I let my imagination run wild on those photographs, it's just does not seem that special or out of the ordinary for that particular year/grade.

    There's enough in the photo to make me wonder if they simply have to put out a star once in a while regardless of what comes in.
  • TorinoCobra71TorinoCobra71 Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭
    A minor crescent toner on both sides got a star?!?!?!?!?

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  • JoesMaNameJoesMaName Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭
    If it were a MS61 image i'd be ok with it image

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,824 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I bet that coin looks a lot better in hand.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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  • PawPaulPawPaul Posts: 5,845 ✭
    thats NGC for ya
  • thisnamztakenthisnamztaken Posts: 4,101 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Another good example of why you should always "Buy the coin and not the 'star' designation!"
    I never thought that growing old would happen so fast.
    - Jim
  • etexmikeetexmike Posts: 6,852 ✭✭✭
    Just judging by the pics, which can be deceiving, I don't see a star for that particular coin either.


    Mike
  • JJMJJM Posts: 8,089 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • ProofRainbowRooseveltProofRainbowRoosevelt Posts: 863 ✭
    I don't know how anyone can decide if that coin does/doesn't have exeptional eye appeal for the grade, by that photo alone.
  • ksteelheaderksteelheader Posts: 11,777 ✭


    << <i>I don't know how anyone can decide if that coin does/doesn't have exeptional eye appeal for the grade, by that photo alone. >>



    Some people would piss at a free beer party, thus their views on a coin that they haven't seen in hand.image
  • kryptonitecomicskryptonitecomics Posts: 9,185 ✭
    I don't believe that coin is star worthy either....especially both of these NGC graded coins I own did not receive the designation?

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    I don't have a problem with the idea of star coins....just the consistancy. image
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  • dizzyfoxxdizzyfoxx Posts: 9,823 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I don't believe that coin is star worthy either....especially both of these NGC graded coins I own did not receive the designation?

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    I don't have a problem with the idea of star coins....just the consistancy. image >>



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  • boyhowdyboyhowdy Posts: 657 ✭
    It's unfortunate that Morgans continue to set the standard as to eye appeal.
    A large percentage were stacked in vaults for eons and never even fulfilled
    their intention. I'm not saying toned uncs. aren't neat, just that that series
    is an anomaly. No other series has so dominated the market with such a slim
    claim to fame. We'd all be better off if a more widely circulated coin was held
    up as the end-all of numismatics. Like Barber dimes or standing quarters. Be
    a lot less pissing and moaning about the difference between MS65 and MS66
    coins, dont'cha think?

    Steve, the curmudgeon.
    Collecting XF+ toned Barber dimes
  • JoesMaNameJoesMaName Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭


    << <i>...
    Be a lot less pissing and moaning about the difference between MS65 and MS66
    coins, dont'cha think?

    Steve, the curmudgeon. >>



    I know what you mean but think all grades above 65 (especially the MS65 of yesterday) on any series are somewhat subjective, so the bickering will continue...

    ...
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's an OPINION guys and gals... get over it.... opinions are like buttholes.. everybody has one.... you don't like it? Fine.. that is YOUR opinion.. no more, no less. Just like grades. Cheers, RickO
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's a nice coin, but I dunno about the star.

    Really, I dunno about the whole star idea in the first place. I'm kind of ambivalent about it.

    I'd rather assign my own stars.

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Kudos to adamlaneus for diggin' up the picture of the Sneetches. It's been years since I've seen that, and I'd forgotten the story.

    How apt. image

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  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,294 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That coin must rook reary reary nice in hand to git the star.
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  • adamlaneusadamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭
    This is a 1968S Kennedy Proof. It is in an NGC slab. The numeric grade is PF-67, which is probably the most common. And it has a star.

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    No toning going on. It's not a cameo; I did not omit part of the grade designation.

    I'm not certain why there is a star on it. Is it a really ULTRA SWEET 67? Can anyone enlighten me?

    Hm.

    Is it a really incredible strike for this year? I am not terribly versed in Kennedy nuances.
  • vplitevplite Posts: 1,385 ✭✭✭


    << <i>It's unfortunate that Morgans continue to set the standard as to eye appeal.
    A large percentage were stacked in vaults for eons and never even fulfilled
    their intention. I'm not saying toned uncs. aren't neat, just that that series
    is an anomaly. No other series has so dominated the market with such a slim
    claim to fame. We'd all be better off if a more widely circulated coin was held
    up as the end-all of numismatics. Like Barber dimes or standing quarters. Be
    a lot less pissing and moaning about the difference between MS65 and MS66
    coins, dont'cha think?

    Steve, the curmudgeon. >>



    An intelligent, concise, and accurate assessment of the coin market today, and Morgans' place in that market. Almost poetic.

    The Morgans do, for whatever reason, hit me and obviously many other collectors on strictly an emotional level.

    As for being able to articulate the reason, I might as well tell you how chocolate tastes. It like it (and Morgans) but I can't logically explain it.

    As for the OT, I don't think it is possible to really judge a coin by the picture. BTW, as couldboyhowdy states, could any other coin stir the passions that this Morgan has? JMHO.

    The Golden Rule: Those with the gold make the rules.
  • CarlWohlforthCarlWohlforth Posts: 11,074 ✭
    Yeah, but does it have a sticker? Does a sticker mean that a star is worthwhile.

    What I mean is would the coin get a sticker? What if it was a 64 plain, no star, then would it get a sticker? Stickers mean high end for the grade, but stars mean extra eye appeal. So how does that work? image
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