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RogerBRogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

Basic statistics indicates that given a consistent grading system and standards, there should be similar quantities of undergraded coins as ones that are overgraded. We see frequent posts on message boards such as, “My coin is in a MS-62 holder but it is undergraded by 4 points and should be MS-66.”

A companion thread asks to see undergraded coins in slabs. Here’s your chance to boast about your overgraded slabbed coins.

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  • ShadyDaveShadyDave Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I know it's not a Us coin, but it was recently graded.

    It's assigned a grade of 63... it MAY be a 61. Bought t for $10 so I'm happy either way...

  • DoubleEagle59DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,373 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ShadyDave said:

    I know it's not a Us coin, but it was recently graded.

    It's assigned a grade of 63... it MAY be a 61. Bought t for $10 so I'm happy either way...

    AND.....it looks like it has PVC.

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  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Think I bought one last night at Heritage.

    :'(

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    All my coins are under graded.... :D:D Well, not really....I agree with most grades... and only, maybe, two, that I truly think are undergraded.... I do not have any that I believe, or question, as over graded....Cheers, RickO

  • jtlee321jtlee321 Posts: 2,365 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This one was supposedly an AU-58. I had a hard time believing that grade, It felt more like a 53 to me.


  • @jtlee321 said:
    This one was supposedly an AU-58. I had a hard time believing that grade, It felt more like a 53 to me.


    That's a lot of deep nicks and... a coin rolling machine etching on the obverse from the D to the neck? "Almost uncirculated"

  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,850 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 10, 2017 4:27PM

    Not a rolling machine mark. This is a classic (perhaps the most classic) location for a die crack on Peace dollars.

    AU-53 sounds about right. Why would anyone have paid to get that coin slabbed?

  • david3142david3142 Posts: 3,582 ✭✭✭✭✭

    By RWB's standards every coin I own is overgraded. I have some coins I bought raw where I think the dealer overgraded the coin, but going by holder alone, this is only thing I have that's close. I think it is an AU55 but it's in a 58 holder. I think it might have gotten the benefit of the doubt given that the surfaces are very clean with virtually no hairlines commonly seen on AU Morgans.


  • gtstanggtstang Posts: 1,773 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BryceM said:
    Not a rolling machine mark. This is a classic (perhaps the most classic) location for a die crack on Peace dollars.

    AU-53 sounds about right. Why would anyone have paid to get that coin slabbed?

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    It was likely graded years ago when it was worth it for the variety. It's a vam 2E wing break. Values are significantly lower now.

  • logger7logger7 Posts: 8,868 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 10, 2017 6:31PM

    I get a lot of undergraded ones, at least a point or two.

  • cameonut2011cameonut2011 Posts: 10,181 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This was in a MS64 holder. It is no longer mine. It looks MS62 to me.


  • logger7logger7 Posts: 8,868 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Correct me if I'm mistaken but neon toning like that is worth high estimates....

  • cameonut2011cameonut2011 Posts: 10,181 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @logger7 said:
    Correct me if I'm mistaken but neon toning like that is worth high estimates....

    I bought it for the color, but it looks stupid in a MS64 holder regardless of how attractive I find the toning.

  • KyleKyle Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 10, 2017 7:31PM

    This AU-58 Morgan Dollar. I bought it from bad pics off eBay and quickly resold it when it arrived.


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  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @pocketpiececommems said:
    FR02 should be PO01

    The joined hands is the stopping it from a 1 IMHO

    Cool coin! Love

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,661 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @pocketpiececommems said:
    FR02 should be PO01

    I guess the graders thought that it was too easy to identify to make the much coveted PR-01 grade, but I'm with you. It looks "poor" to me. B)

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  • logger7logger7 Posts: 8,868 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Maybe it needs to go through "reconsideration" for the coveted Poor1 grade. Do they charge a fee for a downgrade like that which makes it worth more?

  • jwittenjwitten Posts: 5,222 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't own any over graded coins o:) How about this under graded one?



  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,494 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @jwitten said:
    I don't own any over graded coins o:) How about this under graded one?



    Well....that's a "you suck" example.

  • Jackthecat1Jackthecat1 Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭

    That poor beaver. Nothing left of him but his little ears and a few scales on his tail.

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,613 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Great thread. :)

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