If you look closely...

GoldenEyeNumismatics

this coin has worn-in graffiti all over the obverse.

1864-S 25c PCGS VG08

Justlooking

I did, and it does. Did that get by the graders, or is it allowed on VG examples, when it's that faint?

g048406

Good catch........That's why you can't buy a TPG coin sight unseen. I bet, even with the graffiti, it sells for VG8 prices

PerryHall

Yup. The graders must have missed that.

melvin289

I see dead people - er I mean graffiti.

Ron

Moldnut

You see more of this kind of stuff lately. The depression below the foot is more of an eye sore to me, kind of like the one on the bay right now.

seanq

I think it actually says "Ma" in the field to the right of the portrait. Hard to imagine how something like that would get past the graders.


Sean Reynolds

MercLovin

Am I missing something? Mintage of 20k and only worth $600 in VG8?

Seems off kilter to me when you look at the other keys.

LanLord

<< <i>Yup. The graders must have missed that. >>

But they can see the differences between a $50 MS69 and a $5000 MS70 piece of generic silver? hmmmm!

WaterSport

Whoops!


WS

shorecoll

Market acceptable at that grade level? Maybe...but should be disclosed and Gennied.

johnny9434

nice catch for sure

fiveNdime

<< <i>I think it actually says "Ma" in the field to the right of the portrait. >>


maybe it's HA???

GoldClause

Looks like they were net grading it. It has F-12 detail.

PerryHall

<< <i>Market acceptable at that grade level? Maybe...but should be disclosed and Gennied. >>



I don't think graffiti is ever market acceptable. The graders just missed it.

coinkid855

My favorite graffit I've ever seen was on a PCGS CAC'd MS66 (I think, might have been 65) Half Dime at Summer Seminar in the grading class. If you looked at it in the right light, you could see "Carl" clearly engraved in the right field. LOL.




-Paul

pmac

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<< <i>Yup. The graders must have missed that. >>

But they can see the differences between a $50 MS69 and a $5000 MS70 piece of generic silver? hmmmm! >>


Do I sense some sarcasm here?
Also to OP, is this why you are called GoldenEyeNumismatics?

Yukoncornelius1

<< <i>Market acceptable at that grade level? Maybe...but should be disclosed and Gennied. >>



There is no way that this coin should be "market acceptble". If this coin were graded by NGC you guys would be falling over yourselves saying how awful NGC is at grading coins.
This coin should be reholdered as genuine, maybe the graders have been looking at to many 25th anniversary eagles and have forgotten how to grade classic coins?

TAMU15

<< <i>My favorite graffit I've ever seen was on a PCGS CAC'd MS66 (I think, might have been 65) Half Dime at Summer Seminar in the grading class. If you looked at it in the right light, you could see "Carl" clearly engraved in the right field. LOL.




-Paul >>



It was a 65 OGH if I remember correctly lol

B