What would you grade this beauty?
ConstellatioCollector
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Well, what do you think!
Constellatio Collector sevenoften@hotmail.com
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"No Good Deed Goes Unpunished!"
"If it don't make $"
"It don't make cents""
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"If it don't make $"
"It don't make cents""
rainbowroosie April 1, 2003
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"No Good Deed Goes Unpunished!"
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I wish it were but I've never heard of a Constellatio grading over a MS64 and that was PCGS GARRETT. Oh, by te way I already have that one. LOL
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There are a whole lot of colonials that don't have luster. But, that brings up a good point! There sure is a vast difference between grading Colonials and present day, say 1870 and on. What say you?
Jim
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"If it don't make $"
"It don't make cents""
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"No Good Deed Goes Unpunished!"
"If it don't make $"
"It don't make cents""
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The surfaces of your coin appear to be smoother and more lustrous, which indicates to me that they may have been very lightly burnished to give them a pristine 'mint state' appearance.
The coin was formerly lot #62 in Bowers and Merena's March 2003 auction where it was in a PCGS 58 holder and realized $1265.
Your photo shows the coin an NGC holder which I would guess is MS63 or 64.
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If you can, post a bigger picture of the NGC coin - tilted to the same angle - so you can see the direct comparison to the Bowers coin in my photo.
It looks the same to me!
Jim
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K S
<< <i>xf+. possibly au, depending on actual surface quality. can't grade these by "detail", must grade by surface, which is virtually impossible from a digi-pic
K S >>
If the coin was burnished or buffed to enhance it surfaces (and the comparative photos suggest somethings been done to it since its recent auction appearance) then I'd suggest that grading by surfaces is not a good idea.
Looks to me like the coin was an ordinary enough XF / AU worth $1000 slabbed as AU58 by PCGS bringing $1265 now turned into an MS64 or even higher at NGC selling for - and this is just a guess - $6500?
Not good.
burnishing can fall under either category of "curation" or "doctoring". in this case, if what singapore shows is really the same coin, then the coin has been DOCTORED. "curation" by burnishing would be the case where corrosion was growing on the coins surface & required removal to maintain the coin's integrity. but burnishing for the sole purpose of enhancing a coin's appeal is just like dipping a silver coin to make it blast-white. it's a dammed shame is what it is.
K S