KEY Date GRADE?!

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  • BillJones
    BillJones Posts: 35,933 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    No straight grade. It has VG+ sharpness, but it’s been cleaned, recolored and appears to have an obverse rim problem at 12 o’clock.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • BillJones
    BillJones Posts: 35,933 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    It also may not be genuine. The surfaces look puffy and strange, especially on the reverse.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • cherrypickerrrrr
    cherrypickerrrrr Posts: 88 ✭✭
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    @BillJones said:
    No straight grade. It has VG+ sharpness, but it’s been cleaned, recolored and appears to have an obverse rim problem at 12 o’clock.

    That rim problem you're talking about is just where the picture cuts off, lol. I agree it has been cleaned, but I do think it is genuine.

  • grip
    grip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    What Bill said.

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Very strange looking reverse.... I agree with Bill on that point... something not right with that cent. Cheers, RickO

  • cherrypickerrrrr
    cherrypickerrrrr Posts: 88 ✭✭
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    It's not that bumpy looking in person, the flash is exaggerating it. It's been cleaned after a couple tumbles in the wet washer/dryer is what I'm thinking. Definitely genuine though, and I only paid $35 for this rare KEY date, so I'm happy either way. I'm sure I'll flip it for profit towards a higher grade specimen when "upgrading" my wheat cent collection over time. :)

  • ElKevvo
    ElKevvo Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I am in the won't straight grade camp. From the photos.the rim looks rolled as the lettering on the reverse is very close to the rim which looks high, especially for a circulated cent. The second A in America is very odd, the crossbar is slanted, the top of the C in Cent points up but could just be a hit. A few other things here and there. Possibly a counterfeit that has been 'circulated', but I don't have a genuine 31-S available to compare against right now.

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  • Nomader
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    Beautiful Shade!

  • Catbert
    Catbert Posts: 8,258 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    2018 thread bizarrely resurrected.

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  • Jimnight
    Jimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    What @BillJones said!.

  • BuffaloIronTail
    BuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,765 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    What @Jimnight said.

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  • TomB
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    @Catbert said:
    2018 thread bizarrely resurrected.

    Likely bringing up his/her own earlier thread under an earlier ID.

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  • JBK
    JBK Posts: 17,860 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    What @Catbert and @TomB said. :D

  • lkeigwin
    lkeigwin Posts: 16,895 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Not genuine.
    Lance.

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