testing format

rhedden · December 15, 2015 10:20AM

Here are four early coppers freshly graded at PCGS. Guess the grade (including Genuine) on each, and as a variation on the GTG threads, we will be grading the graders' grades at the end to determine a winner, who will get forum bragging rights for a full 15 minutes afterwards as a prize.

Get the grade exactly right, and you will get zero points added to your score.

Miss the grade by "X" number of points (too high or too low), and you will have +X points added to your score.

Guess "Genuine-XX" on a coin, but it actually graded, and you will have a +10 point penalty added to your score. Ouch.

Guess it graded, but it actually made "Genuine-XX" due to problems, and you will also have a +10 penalty added to your score. No need to specify between Genuine-92, Genuine-93,.... just "Genuine" is good enough.

Guess it got a "+" grade correctly, and you will have a -3 point bonus added to your score.

Guess it got a "+" grade incorrectly, and you will have +1 point added to your score.

Fail to grade any one coin , and you also suffer the +10 point penalty.

None of the coins have hidden problems that aren't visible in the photos; no low blows by the OP, in other words.

All of the coins are assumed to be brown enough that we don't have to consider BN/RB

Everyone has to grade from the same amateurish-photos, so no whining about how it's impossible to grade from crappy photos- and they are quite crappy, because I made them.

I'm not saying any of them graded Genuine or got a "+"; these are just grading options PCGS sometimes uses. Now for the coins:

#2 1816 large cent- from Bowers & Merena's sale of the collection of William Youngman.

#4 1819 large cent- raw eBay purchase.