Home› World & Ancient Coins Forum
Options

Need a grade opinion on a three coins

ajaanajaan Posts: 17,588 ✭✭✭✭✭
in World & Ancient Coins Forum
image

image

image

Thanks much

DPOTD-3
'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'

CU #3245 B.N.A. #428


Don

Comments

  • OchoRealesOchoReales Posts: 1,500 ✭
    Hey Don,

    I'm going to venture VF20 Environmental Damage on the copper, 63 or better on the Stone Mountain Half (Pics are a bit too bright. Make sure you check for DDO!) and 63/64? on the Biafra Aluminum.
    Lurker since '02. Got the seven year itch!

    Gary
  • ormandhormandh Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭
    I think the Biafra piece is AU58-MS61. These really come nice. Mine is a MS65 and it is mirror in the fields. -Dan
    Numismasource ebay store
  • SYRACUSIANSYRACUSIAN Posts: 6,473 ✭✭✭✭
    That's a rare Biafra denomination, unlike the shilling as Don knows. The Stone Mountain has always been my favourite US commem along with an Oregon I had gotten from newsman. The 50 type coin commem set in a Dansco, in grades 61-63, with coins often cracked out, was among my first and still favourite side projects, but never completed.
    Dimitri



    myEbay



    DPOTD 3
  • mnemtsas2mnemtsas2 Posts: 745 ✭✭✭
    1925 penny wouldn't grade more than aF to F down here. I doubt it would slab up with what appears to be active verdigris and some sort of surface damage.
    Successful trades with Syracusian, DeiGratia, LordM, WWW, theboz11, CCC2010, Hyperion, ajaan, wybrit, Dennis88 and many others.
  • mrpotatoheaddmrpotatoheadd Posts: 7,576 ✭✭✭
    Found this grading info on the Australian Numismatic Dealers Association website:

    Fine:

    image

    Very Fine:

    image
  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,588 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The 1925 penny was a last minute impulse buy at a montly show today. I think I paid way too much for it. I knew it was a key date and didn't have any references with me. Oh well, I bought it for resale and we'll see how it does on eBay.

    I paid EF money for the Stone Mtn and took it to the show today, one dealer said MS63, one said AU58.

    The Biafra coin really bugs me trying to grade it. I find grading aluminum coins to be very problematic and very, very difficult to image.

    DPOTD-3
    'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'

    CU #3245 B.N.A. #428


    Don
  • mnemtsas2mnemtsas2 Posts: 745 ✭✭✭
    1925 pennies always do ok on Ebay down here, they are a popular coin. Depending on what you paid you might go alright with it.
    Successful trades with Syracusian, DeiGratia, LordM, WWW, theboz11, CCC2010, Hyperion, ajaan, wybrit, Dennis88 and many others.
  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,823 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The 1925 Penny may be a F15- maybe better but it looks as if it needs some conservation

    The Stone Mountain may have a reasonable shot at 64 based on what looks to be above average cartwheel lustre for the coin

    Not sure about the last one

    Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.

  • newsmannewsman Posts: 2,658 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I paid EF money for the Stone Mtn and took it to the show today, one dealer said MS63, one said AU58. >>



    No surprise there -- I can't tell from the pic whether it's wear or strike weakness on the eagle's breast.
Sign In or Register to comment.