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I picked up this coin from a seller at a coin show, here was the seller's description:
I sent the coin into ANACS, hadn't done business with them in a while. Here was the result:
How bad is this coin as a problem example, anyone know how PCGS would see it, is their term "smoothed"?
I sent the coin into ANACS, hadn't done business with them in a while. Here was the result:
How bad is this coin as a problem example, anyone know how PCGS would see it, is their term "smoothed"?
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2. No one on this Forum can make a judgment based on your small photos.
3. No one could speak for PCGS.
4. A Choice AU Bust Dime should already be slabbed, why buy one raw if you are not an expert yourself?
5. Was the Seller of national renown?
Tough break. I feel your pain.
When I first started back in collecting I picked up a lib nickel a dealer had marked "MS65" on the 2 x 2. I sent it in to PCGS and it came back AU55.
I learned to avoid that dealer's table at shows and I was prompted to learn more about grading and to look long and hard at coins before I bought them.
This last weekend I ran into WTCG at a show and he warned me about coins that hide something under their toning.
Yours looks like a good example of that although I can't see the surfaces in the photo posted.
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso
Regarding later comment
1. No real way to tell if the dealer knew what he was talking about or not.
2. Agree
3. If the coin is whizzed, PCGS will bag it...period. You've got a .1% chance of a miss I would say.
4. Plenty of choice AU bust half dimes are found raw...
5. May matter if you decide you want to take it back. Offer it to him at 20% off his price on it and move on.
I remember when I got fooled by a 68-S half dime that was whizzed. Those smaller ones are a bit more tricky to pick out whizzed. A large coin easy given the way you are used to seeing a proper cartwheel. Cramped little half dimes with lots of design and not much field always need to be given a second look...
John
siliconvalleycoins.com
" A Choice AU Bust [half] Dime should already be slabbed"
Not so, my friend. My entire reference collection of Capped Bust half dimes consists of 298 examples, in an average grade of AU-57, and all raw. Some were purchased in plastic, but they are all now free. And it is just one of many such specialist's collections who prefer raw early Federal coins. The world does not live by plastic alone.
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