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Just for fun.......GTG ***Grade posted***

WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,750 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited November 2, 2019 8:10PM in U.S. Coin Forum

Not mine. Guess the grade on this 1921 P Walker. Don't cheat!

Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):

https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/

Just for fun.......GTG ***Grade posted***

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  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,823 ✭✭✭✭✭
    MS 64

    Obverse strike is great. Reverse Eagle breast looks weak. I'm just not sure about this one, but waiting for the experts to chime in before voting.

  • Batman23Batman23 Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭✭✭
    MS 63

    Where are the AU choices? o:)

  • JBNJBN Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭✭✭
    MS 63

    Nice GTG. Thanks.
    Gem obverse. Then the reverse....and its weaknesses.

  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,750 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Batman23 said:
    Where are the AU choices? o:)

    You're absolutely right.....I should have thrown that in as a ringer....too late, now. :/

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

    My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):

    https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/

  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,718 ✭✭✭✭✭
    MS 64

    @JBN said:
    Nice GTG. Thanks.
    Gem obverse. Then the reverse....and its weaknesses.

    Agree.
    Almost looks like two different coins....still, I guessed 64, thinking the obverse will carry the overall coin grade.

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  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,581 ✭✭✭✭✭
    MS 64

    @Smudge said:
    Obverse strike is great. Reverse Eagle breast looks weak. I'm just not sure about this one, but waiting for the experts to chime in before voting.

    Exactly. .. I thought 65 on the obverse and 63 on the reverse. .. so I took the average... 64...

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  • CCGGGCCGGG Posts: 1,267 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Can't vote. No option for AU.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    MS 64

    Well... I think it has enough positive to carry the grade.... I have been wrong before.... ;) Cheers, RickO

  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,750 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2, 2019 3:46PM

    @CCGGG said:
    Can't vote. No option for AU.

    Write-in ballot. ;). If anyone else thinks it’s AU, please feel free to say so. Thanks.

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

    My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):

    https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/

  • clarkbar04clarkbar04 Posts: 4,979 ✭✭✭✭✭
    MS 64

    I think the normal thing to assume is that if there aren’t any au grade choices, that’s not one of the correct answers.

    MS66 taste on an MS63 budget.
  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2, 2019 4:41PM

    .

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  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,718 ✭✭✭✭✭
    MS 64

    @clarkbar04 said:
    I think the normal thing to assume is that if there aren’t any au grade choices, that’s not one of the correct answers.

    But..... I think I see rub, and want to guess AU58!

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  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,750 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2, 2019 10:36PM

    Thanks for playing! It's an NGC 64. I thought about purchasing this coin, back in 2016, but it sold for a real premium, which was out of my comfort zone for the grade, at that time. I love the strike and the fields look clean and lustrous enough to be called gem. It looks original and is in an old #7 slab (been entombed for 20+ years). However, the marks up the central obverse along with the weak reverse limit it to MS 64, imho. This coin was a real learning experience (grading-wise) for me. I am STILL waiting for this piece to show up, in a PC65 slab, but it has been almost 4 years and has yet to happen, at least not that I am aware of. ;)

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

    My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):

    https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/

  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,718 ✭✭✭✭✭
    MS 64

    Looks gorgeous in that slab shot!
    Very unusual to see strike weakness on the reverse like that, in that location. I’ve only seen a few over many years of collecting. I have a 17D rev in my trading stock box even more dramatic than this one.

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  • CCGGGCCGGG Posts: 1,267 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 3, 2019 6:25AM

    Perfect example of "buy the coin" not the holder, or given grade...

  • MFeldMFeld Posts: 14,903 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @CCGGG said:
    Perfect example of "buy the coin" not the holder, or given grade...

    Not to me, it isn’t. From what I can see in the images, the coin looks accurately graded.

    Far batter examples of “buy the coin, not the holder” would be 1) a Mercury Dime graded FB, where the bands aren't full; 2) a coin that looks as if it received an extra two points for attractive color or 3) a coin in an off-brand holder that’s all there for the grade.

    Mark Feld* of Heritage Auctions*Unless otherwise noted, my posts here represent my personal opinions.

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