1915 Buffalo 5c... Care to take a stab at the grade?

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• LanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 16, 2013 12:15PM

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  64+?
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• cape Posts: 1,621 ✭

  January 16, 2013 10:18PM

  Easy 65

  ed rodrigues

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• pmac Posts: 3,189 ✭✭✭

  January 16, 2013 10:24PM

  
  
  << <i>Easy 65 >>
  
  
  Ed's got the eye and I agree.

  Paul

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• ModCrewman Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 16, 2013 11:14PM

  My first instinct was 58...but I'm no expert on these and the flatness I think I'm seeing could be a result of the strike and die wear.

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• grip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 17, 2013 12:00AM

  66+ could go 7..Great strike and eye appeal.

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• coinbuf Posts: 11,836 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 17, 2013 1:32AM

  I see a touch of stike weakness and the streaky rev toning keep this to a 65 for me.

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• ColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 17, 2013 2:17AM

  Looks like virtually full fresh rich frost and resultantly expected lustre. Better rinse job after dipping would have been helpful, but result is acceptable.
  
  Full strikes are easily found and this one rates as B, not B+. The braid knot is not full, and missing tail detail is also from strike, as is lack of depth on the bushy areas of the buffalo.
  
  Is that a vertical hairline between the legs? Micro-tick nose?
  
  I see a texture change in the color on the back shoulder/hip of Black Diamond too.
  
  Acceptable in an MS64 holder because it relatively inexpensive. If it were a Seated coin the discoloration would not so easily tolerated.
  
  I would not sell it to a collector in a 65 holder. I wouldn't want it back.

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• IrishMikey Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭

  January 17, 2013 2:47AM

  Looks like a 65 to me.

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• crazyhounddog Posts: 14,071 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 17, 2013 2:51AM

  Looks to be a 64-65 with slight weakness on the reverse and obverse the knot on the Indian seems to be weak. It's very tough to grade any coin from images. The luster rules the roost when grading these coins and it's hard to pick it up when imaging. Nice Buff!!

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• Shamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭

  January 17, 2013 10:16AM

  Nice luster but the strike is average. I'd grade it 64.

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• tradedollarnut Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 17, 2013 10:39AM

  I guess I'm on the outside looking in because I see impaired luster and am thinking 62 .... maybe 63.

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• smokincoin Posts: 2,636 ✭✭✭

  January 17, 2013 10:42AM

  Thanks for all the opinions. I thought it might be a tad undergraded. We'll see...
  

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• IrishMikey Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭

  January 17, 2013 10:57AM

  Well, so much for grading via images. I have to assume that the ANACS graders saw something -- light friction,
  impaired luster, etc. I took another look at the images and can't see it myself. If it was graded AU-55, you could
  argue that it was a typo, and they meant MS-65, but that doesn't work with AU-58.
  
  Humbling, to say the least.

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• ModCrewman Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 17, 2013 1:08PM

  Woo-hoo! What did I win?

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• crazyhounddog Posts: 14,071 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 18, 2013 2:44AM

  This is one of those deals where ya need to tilt the coin to & fro to see the break in the luster. Grading from images just doesn't cut it. I will say that your 1915 is a very nice 58......CHD

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