Newbie asks - Did you ever get the top grade?

ICOLLECTINEEDHELP

How many have submitted a coin that meets the top grade known, and actually received that grade?
I'm mostly referring to obsolete coinage here not moderns.

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lkeigwin

This is a pretty talented audience so my guess is the number is fairly high. I am a modest newby by comparison but I have more than a handful at the top grade.

Welcome to the forum!
Lance.

ICOLLECTINEEDHELP

Thank you very much. I have been reading and learning alot from everyone.
I just wonder about the faireness of grading at the top 2. From my own experience,
I have been pretty disappointed and I'm thinking the problem might be my own lack of grading finesse.

ICOLLECTINEEDHELP

Yes,

I recognize the value of the combined talent here. It's like I've graduated Jr. College and now have the opportunity to ask the professors at University.

Good for you on those top graded's.
That's what I was hoping to hear; it's encouraging.

BECOKA

Best I have done is make the top 20 for a particular date and series.

DennisH

I have a few times (but they were all Morgan VAMs).
One of them still is tied for the top grade with one other coin.

LindeDad

I made a couple of TOP POPS in my first year of submitting but I was submitting moderns. But just so you know my biggest hit was a coin I found and bought as a VF that when submitted came back as AU53 what I thought was toning was really remaing luster.

Mesquite

I once submitted an entire Wright Bros. commem. series and all came back MS or PR69 except the gold $10 - which came back MS63. That is my only conditional rarity.

Fairlaneman

Can only take half credit for the Pop1 coin that I helped make. Its a 1946S Roosevelt that I submitted and got a MS67FB grade on it. About a year later I noticed it was a Double Die and then the coin was purchased from me by a collector that is into designations. The new owner submitted it for the DD designation and the coin received it. I think it still is a Pop1.

Hello and welcome to the farm.

Ken

JCMhouston

I have a couple of 18th and 19th C. top pops that I submitted. But they are all World coins.

tydye

None in US but I have a few in world. But world is not that hard. I have one where I am both the top and the low grade (only one graded)

ricko

"I just wonder about the faireness of grading at the top 2. From my own experience,
I have been pretty disappointed and I'm thinking the problem might be my own lack of grading finesse."
This is a very important statement.... when one recognizes that one's skill level may, indeed, be less than the grading experts, then one is on the way to expanding knowledge and skills. Congratulations Grasshopper... Cheers, RickO

jonathanb

1860-O dime

Type2

All my coins are modern junk so no never.

RYK

Collectors do frequently get the top grades. I have seen it posted here often over the last several years.

yellowjacket

1942 and 1947 Lincoln Cents, and 1951 1nd 1952 FB Roosevelt Dimes.

But I guess you would call them moderns, eh?
Garrow

ICOLLECTINEEDHELP

No,no, not at all. I would call a Sacagewia(spell check) a modern.

Congratulations on those, that's cool.

Thanks! I'm seeing a number of collectors who have achieved that distinction. It's good to see.

Moderns are to me anything you can submit in bulk and have some hope of getting some 70s back.