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What's the Next Coin in the Cardinal Reveal?
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Stack's is announcing one per week. Today's was a splendiferous chain cent. The kind of coin that should not exist!
The picture for next week seems to be that of a decidedly smaller coin.
The picture for next week seems to be that of a decidedly smaller coin.
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Martin stumbles across something fairly cool every once in a while.
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What is that semi circular effect between Miss Liberty and the date? I don't recall that when I had the coin.
<< <i>That's a nice coin [I used to own it] even tho it's a very tough one for PGCS to grade. It started at 63, went to 64 and then to 65. The planchet voids apparently held it back at first, as the luster is very very nice.
What is that semi circular effect between Miss Liberty and the date? I don't recall that when I had the coin. >>
Ultimately the fabulous original cartwheel luster carries the coin, placing it far superior to the Eliasberg coin graded by PCGS as MS65BN and approved by CAC (which displays prominent - though inactive - corrosion on the reverse). When I first acquired the coin nearly 8 years ago, John Albanese urged me to keep re-submitting it as he believed it fully deserved the MS66 grade. (The EAC graders actually place the Beckwith-Collins-Naftzger-Cardinal specimen 10 grading points higher than the Eliasberg coin.)
The semi circular effect between Miss Liberty and the date is a clash mark from the chain on the reverse, present in the dies at time of striking, and present on the coin from the first day it was minted.
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<< <i>Is the MS65 overgraded? How does it go from 63, then 64, then 65? hmmmmmm. >>
Why not undergraded? Could be PCGS got it wrong the first and second times and perhaps even this time.
Cardinal only has 5 points left to keep upgrading his beauty
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But the continuous upgrades (63, 64, 65) do bother me, as well as Wondercoins 12 point upgrade. Whats up with that? To me it says more about the grading company than the coin but that's just my take. I haven't seen it in hand so would not hazard a guess on when, if ever, it was correctly graded. Perhaps Albanese was right and it needs to go back again to get a 66.
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