gtg - 1913 bison
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MS63-64
Ms63
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This is the first 1913 TY-1 I've seen that totally exhibits part of the reason why the reverse was smoothed out by Charles Barber.
In addition to the early wear on the denomination, the coin exhibits small die cracks everywhere from a die that started to fail as it tried to render the "pebbled" field. The Buffalo reverse was very hard on dies, with a whole lot of micro cracking going on.
The coin looks uncirculated to me, even with what looks like wear on the obverse around the cheek and central details.
No apparent wear shows on the hip and split tail, but the tail itself is flat to the body. This is very common.
It can be difficult to grade encapsulated coins in holders because of the inherent problems some slabs show, with clouding from rub in certain areas which can obscure the coin.
I'll take a stab at it and say it is an MS-64.
Pete
I'll guess 64.
63.
63/58
rainbowroosie April 1, 2003
Also my assessment based on the pics
I'm in the 63 camp too...
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63 to me
Collector, occasional seller
Surprise
Are there things we are seeing that are on the holder that perhaps we thought were hits on the coin itself?
You decide from these bigger pics
Nice, looks to have good color too! What looked like contact marks must have just been on the slab.
Collector, occasional seller
1913 type one pcgs ms65 buffs are a great type coin. If you search carefully you can find really nice upper end coins from early dies and these puppies look much like the matte proofs. I would avoid the mid and late die state coins which lack the full detail of the dies. I once saw a really ugly 13 ty 1 buff that pcgs had graded ms65. I would have given it no more than an ms60. So be careful!!
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Take a look at this puppy which is for sale on eBay right now by coast to coast coins.....
This is the kind of 13 type one you want to own, full detail, early die state, and top of the grade.
I really like ms65 and ms66 grades.
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rico
lately I have seen no end of slabbed buffs by “Hertz” and “Avis” that appear to be overgradedd. Some with big hits and scratches or carbon spots on coins graded above 65 that I would not grade higher than 64.
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