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  • SeaEagleCoinsSeaEagleCoins Posts: 3,262 ✭
    Deliciously Dirty!!! image
    Re: Slabbed coins - There are some coins that LIVE within clear plastic and wear their labels with pride... while there are others that HIDE behind scratched plastic and are simply dragged along by a label. Then there are those coins that simply hang out, naked and free image
  • AnkurJAnkurJ Posts: 11,370 ✭✭✭✭
    Nice looking XF45!
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,898 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Nice looking XF45! >>



    Looks like a solid VF35 or possibily an XF40 on a good day depending on how much luster is remaining. Nice coin in any event. Did you get it at a good price?image

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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Nice looking XF45! >>


    That would be disappointing. The auctioneer (Scotsman) graded it as a VF. image

    It's now in a PCGS XF-40 holder.

    Did you get it at a good price?

    Let's just say that it was a much better deal than when I bought one sight-unseen at a Stack's auction several years ago.
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • BigEBigE Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭
    Very nice, as usaual RYK! I have noticed some fake dirty look coins lately, they look like someone has put dye around the rim and devices, they haven't mastered the crusty/muddy booger look yet---------------BigE
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  • AnkurJAnkurJ Posts: 11,370 ✭✭✭✭
    I got a great deal on mine image
    And it even gold stickered image

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  • FrankcoinsFrankcoins Posts: 4,572 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Nice looking XF45! >>



    High VF would be an honest grade
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,898 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>Nice looking XF45! >>



    High VF would be an honest grade >>



    Agree with you but RYK already said it's in a PCGS XF40 slab.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • rld14rld14 Posts: 2,390 ✭✭✭
    Filthy dirty. I love it!
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  • ebaybuyerebaybuyer Posts: 2,984 ✭✭✭
    if a VF is slabbed as an XF, do the details grow back onto the coin ? and if so how long does this usually take ?
    regardless of how many posts I have, I don't consider myself an "expert" at anything
  • pontiacinfpontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭
    wow the model back then for the coin actually was getting lip injections, holy moley!


    great pickup, wow if ya get tired of it Ill send my address
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  • goldengolden Posts: 10,004 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No way is it a 40.
  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,313 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ankur's piece looks fully "dirty." Don't think the XF40 is. Would also agree with a VF+ grade. Are they giving some points back due to a weak strike?

    roadrunner
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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,328 ✭✭✭✭✭
    very cool
  • shorecollshorecoll Posts: 5,447 ✭✭✭✭✭
    roadrunner...I had the same thought. No way is that XF, but maybe that's a weak strike year/variety.
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  • astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Dang ... you fooled me!

    Nice Half Eagle, BTW.
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