Found a Wheatie for my birth year set.

SkyMan · November 4, 2013 1:17AM

I was born in 1958. Surprisingly, I've been looking for a long time for some toned copper in higher grades for the birth year set I've been putting together. I found that I could either get toned copper or high grade copper but not both. Here's a PCGS MS66RB I finally found this summer. The images are by Bob Campbell, and I think he did an excellent job.

If you are interested, here's the rest of the set...

1958 set.

etexmike · November 4, 2013 1:43AM

I like the green. Nice addition to your set.

Mike

kimber45ACP · November 4, 2013 1:53AM

Bubblehead · November 4, 2013 2:06AM

The others in your set are also very nice examples.
Ummm, but...? I thought it was no longer allowed to
mix and match?

Clarification... I had, erroneously it turns out, been advised that NGC
no longer allowed PCGS coins to be entered into the NGC registry.

That's not true and I apologize for my initial, and unclear, posting.

Overdate · November 4, 2013 2:21AM

Good work. I've found that it's impossible to find an affordable toned cent for my birth year set.

(BTW, I was born in 1943.)

TomB · November 4, 2013 4:04AM

That's a really nice one with good color on the obverse and a warm orange on the reverse. My experience is also that many of the Mint Set coins have incompletely struck patches on the reverse that really take away from their overall eye appeal.

johnny9434 · November 4, 2013 5:18AM

i really like the strike on that. nice pick up as well

SkyMan · November 4, 2013 8:55AM

Thanks guys, glad you like it!

I hope you find a good one at the right price OD.

It really is amazing how difficult these suckers are to find nicely toned in a high grade. I've been looking for a 67. However, the only 67's I've seen are 67RD. I'm not interested in the highest grade. I'm interested in the highest possible grade with nice toning. Looking at the PCGS population report for 1958 there are 28 MS67RD and 910 MS66RD Wheaties. There are NO MS67RB or MS67BN. There are 19 MS66RB and NO MS66BN.

It's almost as bad for nicely toned 1958-D Wheaties. For 1958-D there are 103 MS67RD and 2,525 MS66RD Wheaties. There are NO MS67RB or MS67BN. There are only 25 MS66RB and NO MS66BN 1958-D's. With these numbers you can see how difficult it is to find high grade nicely toned P or D Wheaties from 1958.

Found a Wheatie for my birth year set.

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