Would this coin get a details grade if sent to PCGS?

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• MICHAELDIXON Posts: 6,648 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 30, 2017 6:11PM

  I would say it would get a details grade.

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• messydesk Posts: 20,472 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 30, 2017 6:22PM

  Details for scratches and possibly bent and straightened. Pity.

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• BryceM Posts: 11,893 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 30, 2017 6:23PM

  I wouldn't want to buy it in a straight-grade holder.

  Fabulous coin nonetheless. If you're selling it, you might do better with it in a "genuine" holder.

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• BruceS Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 30, 2017 6:37PM

  Yes, no doubt. But I still would be proud to own that piece. That's awesome. Even with the perceived issues.

  
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• DollarAfterDollar Posts: 3,215 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 30, 2017 6:52PM

  Agree with above. Details but still needs to be encapsulated.

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• basetsb Posts: 508 ✭✭✭✭

  April 30, 2017 6:52PM

  Can anyone find the variety of this half dime? I just read that there are 10 of them.

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• basetsb Posts: 508 ✭✭✭✭

  April 30, 2017 7:58PM

  @basetsb said:
  Can anyone find the variety of this half dime? I just read that there are 10 of them.

  I have looked at varieties and I believe it is Valentine 2.

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• carabonnair Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 30, 2017 9:20PM

  Valentine 2 is now more commonly known as LM-3 (Russell Logan and John McCloskey published "Federal Half Dimes 1792-1837" in 1998). A scarcer variety (R-5) and yours looks to be an early die state which makes it a bit scarcer still. Too bad about the damage, it has really nice details. I like it!

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• mannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 30, 2017 9:26PM edited April 30, 2017 9:27PM

  I don't think it would straight grade.

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• Batman23 Posts: 5,047 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 1, 2017 12:05AM

  Looks like a details coin to me.

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 1, 2017 3:59AM

  Yep... details... but well worth slabbing anyway..... Cheers, RickO

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• BillJones Posts: 35,034 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 1, 2017 4:23AM

  Yes, details grade because of the marks, the bending and perhaps even for cleaning. NGC refesed to get this one years ago, yet I've seen other similar coins from the same era, with far worse sins, like polished and re-colored, get a grade.

  
  

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• basetsb Posts: 508 ✭✭✭✭

  May 1, 2017 4:46AM

  Thanks everyone, I mainly was hoping to get the variety attributed.

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• joeykoins Posts: 17,938 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 1, 2017 5:24AM

  Beauuutiful coin dude, regardless of slabbed or raw!

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