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Your grading opinions on this Greyside Dollar please

laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
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An upgrade from a VF that I traded in...curious as to your grade.
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  • IloiloKanoIloiloKano Posts: 1,051
    It's not my area of expertise, but I would guess AU58 based upon the reverse.
    My US-PI One Centavo Circulation Strikes (1903-1944)
  • sbeverlysbeverly Posts: 962 ✭✭✭

    I'm looking for a 1952 version of that.
    Raw BU.

    While on the subject...Any opinions on the grade of this 50cent Canadian?
    I picked this up sight unseen from Apmex last July went they were blowing out all Numismatic Items.
    I paid $12 for it.

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  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    To my not well-trained enough eye your 50 cent Canadian looks UNC. And if UNC I'm guessing 63 and above.

    A little tough to tell because of that very nice toning... I don't see any wear on the cheekbone or other high spots.

    I thought mine would qualify as UNC-hope it does.
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  • DoubleEagle59DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,377 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1935 $1 ms64

    1937 50c about au55/58
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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,836 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I really do not think I can offer a reasonable grade based on the sharp contrast in lighting in the image- it s an attractive image, but just not one that I think I am able to offer an opinion- it looks attractive, but remember that this date comes nice

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  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    that this date comes nice

    Ah coinkat, can you extrapolate? Perhaps I might not have jumped on it so quickly if I had known that.

    There is an area of strong contrast-I got lazy and didn't re-do the image but the contrast is not hiding anything.

    DoubleEagle, I like your opinion.image

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    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
  • BlackhawkBlackhawk Posts: 3,899 ✭✭✭
    I don't know how TPGs are grading these now, but I sent in two original 1935's a few years ago that I thought were locks at MS65...they came back as 63's. I haven't sent in a Canadian dollar since. Both of the coins have nice lustre and few marks, but they alsohave some streaks in the toning that are not scratches, but maybe the grader took them as such. Here's one of the coins, my photos are not the best...

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  • ColinCMRColinCMR Posts: 1,482 ✭✭✭
    the portrait is really nice on the dollar!!

    not sure what grade you'd get for it, probably ms63-64?
  • ColinCMRColinCMR Posts: 1,482 ✭✭✭
    that 50cent has great eye appeal!
  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    they came back as 63's. I haven't sent in a Canadian dollar since.

    Well, at least you sent them in and got them graded-probably more than I'm going to do.
    At this point the grade is more for my own edification-certainly have no intention of
    selling-but if I did, I wouldn't hesitate to send them in to be slabbed. (ach, cough, choke-
    I said it. Whew, that wasn't so hard.)

    Thanks, Colin. My dealer had it marked MS63 but I've seen him make mistakes in, errr, judgement before.image
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    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
  • sbeverlysbeverly Posts: 962 ✭✭✭
    that 50cent has great eye appeal!

    Thanks...

    The coin shows so much better in hand. There's a good amount of luster
    under that overall even toning.

    Though I'm not new to the concepts of Photography. I'm finding that
    coin photography is a whole new ball of wax.



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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,836 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1935 was the first year of the issue and several were saved- the quality is usually very good- the pop reports reflect this-

    What I was trying to get at- the contrast in the image has a bright area in the fields in front of the forehead of George V to the top of the crown. While the coin has an MS look, I would rather see it in hand before assigning a numerical grade-

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  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    While the coin has an MS look, I would rather see it in hand before assigning a numerical grade-

    Understood.

    I meant to add and seemingly forgot that the contrast above the forhead is not hiding any meanies...image
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  • DoubleEagle59DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,377 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The 1935 and 1949 Canadian dollars are found in large numbers in higher grades than other dates.

    This is due to the fact that these two dates when delivered from the Mint, came in rolls, not in bags.
    "Gold is money, and nothing else" (JP Morgan, 1912)

    "“Those who sacrifice liberty for security/safety deserve neither.“(Benjamin Franklin)

    "I only golf on days that end in 'Y'" (DE59)
  • DoubleEagle59DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,377 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I don't know how TPGs are grading these now, but I sent in two original 1935's a few years ago that I thought were locks at MS65...they came back as 63's. I haven't sent in a Canadian dollar since. Both of the coins have nice lustre and few marks, but they alsohave some streaks in the toning that are not scratches, but maybe the grader took them as such. Here's one of the coins, my photos are not the best...

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    US tpg's ms63 because of muted luster.

    Canada's ICCS perhaps an ms64.
    "Gold is money, and nothing else" (JP Morgan, 1912)

    "“Those who sacrifice liberty for security/safety deserve neither.“(Benjamin Franklin)

    "I only golf on days that end in 'Y'" (DE59)
  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,836 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The George V Dollars is a great set-

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