1869 Austria Hungary Franz Joseph 10 Kreuzer (bought raw, grade opinions?)

mercurydimeguy · September 17, 2015 1:31PM

Your opinions please, looks like a nice/original Choice Unc piece to me...it arrived in the mail today and I just imaged it.

Zohar · September 17, 2015 1:41PM

Super nice!

lordmarcovan · September 17, 2015 6:24PM

Looks BU-ish to me... MS64, perhaps?

brg5658 · September 17, 2015 11:07PM

If that luster is booming like it appears, and it isn't too crusty -- then I'd say MS65 shot MS66. It's a lovely little silver coin, and I have always liked this young portrait with the "chops".

Zohar · September 17, 2015 11:13PM

To me looks 65 with only hold back from 66 is some weakness on eagles on reverse. Great coin, again.

marcmoish · September 18, 2015 1:01AM

great pic - so easy to tell it looks lock 65 and yes wouldn't surprise me in a 66/67 holder - in hand always makes the final diff..!

lordmarcovan · September 18, 2015 2:13AM

I was sorta thinkin' 65, too, but went 64 to err on the side of caution. I don't see 66 there, but if it happens, great. I've been wrong plenty of times.

coinsarefun · September 18, 2015 11:45AM

I like it very much!!!

mercurydimeguy · September 18, 2015 12:12PM

I'm still learning my way around world coins in terms of grading, and also learning that NGC and PCGS grade these coins very differently. I don't know who is right or wrong, but I really like the PCGS Secure service for World coins and prefer the PCGS slab.

Anyhow, I also think this could be a candidate for Gem 65, but PCGS might grade it Choice Unc 63 or 64. After cracking out an NGC old small style holder, inside being a superb MS66 coin and thinking it had a shot at 67, and it came back from PCGS as MS63, I now think anything is possible

Thanks for your feedback guys, I'll send this coin in to grading with my next batch and will post the grade here once it's graded.

1869 Austria Hungary Franz Joseph 10 Kreuzer (bought raw, grade opinions?)

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