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TrinkettsTrinketts Posts: 1,699 ✭
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  • jsinisterrjsinisterr Posts: 18
    Very nice....by the way, just out of curiosity...what is your preferred method for cracking out coins???

    Anyone/Everyone else please feel free to answer/join in.....
  • TrinkettsTrinketts Posts: 1,699 ✭
    I used two simple tools.... an old towel and a standard hammer...... I wrap the hold over in the towel... then strike the edge of the holder through the towel a few good wacks and the seal breaks... I can tell you this.... NGC and ANACS are alot easier to open and get the coin out with ease than PCGS.
    Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about. -Benjamin Franklin-
  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    63
    Buyer and seller of vintage coin boards!
  • TrinkettsTrinketts Posts: 1,699 ✭


    << <i>63 >>



    I hope not image

    It was in a NGC 64 holder...
    Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about. -Benjamin Franklin-
  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,551 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't think it will go no more than 64. There is some dies eroision on the reverse. Just my opinion.

    The coin has a lot going for it, though. Split tail. above average, but not pinpoint strike.

    Abscence of any serious marks or dings makes it a good candidate for a 65, however, I think it is a high-end 64.

    Hope this helps...............

    Pete
    "I tell them there's no problems.....only solutions" - John Lennon
  • TrinkettsTrinketts Posts: 1,699 ✭
    I don't want it to go higher(well would be nice)

    I would be very happy with a 64 from PCGS... it has some very nice electric blue and purple toning I just could not catch. And I would much rather it be in a PCGS holder for my set
    Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about. -Benjamin Franklin-
  • caitlincaitlin Posts: 858 ✭✭✭
    I'll have to agree with Shamika pcgs ms63.
    A collector of high grade TONED BUFFALO NICKELS ,working on a PCGS REGISTRY SET.
  • coinfreak499coinfreak499 Posts: 1,720
    There's something about that coin that makes me want to say 62.


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  • capecape Posts: 1,621 ✭
    i agree that its a nice coin but i feel it is only going to pcgs63
    ed rodrigues
  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭

    Trinketts,

    The problem with this coin is the strike. Unlike the the 14-D issue, 14-S Buffalos often have HAMMERED strikes! If the luster and/or toning is exceptional, then 64 may be justifiable. But from the image and the strike, the coin really doesn't look like a 64.

    And for the record, I think in general NGC is pretty good with Buffalo nickels.

    Buyer and seller of vintage coin boards!
  • TrinkettsTrinketts Posts: 1,699 ✭


    << <i>Trinketts,

    The problem with this coin is the strike. Unlike the the 14-D issue, 14-S Buffalos often have HAMMERED strikes! If the luster and/or toning is exceptional, then 64 may be justifiable. But from the image and the strike, the coin really doesn't look like a 64.

    And for the record, I think in general NGC is pretty good with Buffalo nickels. >>



    I don't know what hammered strikes you are talking about for any early S die.. The LIBERTY is far sharper than any I could find in a current PCGS holder.. Check anaconda they have one in a PCGS holder now for sale in 64.

    I would love to see a good strike example of a 1914-S as I have yet to see one.
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  • sleepersleeper Posts: 100
    IMO MS63 if was PCGS, MS64 if was NGC, nice luster from picture i think, if was nicer strike would probably grade higher.

    Andrew
  • TrinkettsTrinketts Posts: 1,699 ✭


    << <i>IMO MS63 if was PCGS, MS64 if was NGC, nice luster from picture i think, if was nicer strike would probably grade higher.

    Andrew >>



    Surely you aren't saying that NGC over grades are you image

    Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about. -Benjamin Franklin-
  • capecape Posts: 1,621 ✭
    trinketts, i have a hammered pcgs 63 that ill give to darin in baltimore to image for me . the 63 im talking about i am going to get regraded as i beleive it is a very nice 64. ill post the images after baltimore. ed
    ed rodrigues
  • TorinoCobra71TorinoCobra71 Posts: 8,063 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Very nice....by the way, just out of curiosity...what is your preferred method for cracking out coins???

    Anyone/Everyone else please feel free to answer/join in..... >>



    Bench Vice and Bar Towel.......

    TorinoCobra71

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  • TrinkettsTrinketts Posts: 1,699 ✭


    << <i>trinketts, i have a hammered pcgs 63 that ill give to darin in baltimore to image for me . the 63 im talking about i am going to get regraded as i beleive it is a very nice 64. ill post the images after baltimore. ed >>



    Cool, thanks. I have been hard pressed to find even an image of a really nice strike on a 14-S.
    Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about. -Benjamin Franklin-
  • DeadhorseDeadhorse Posts: 3,720 ✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Very nice....by the way, just out of curiosity...what is your preferred method for cracking out coins???

    Anyone/Everyone else please feel free to answer/join in..... >>



    Bench Vice and Bar Towel.......

    TorinoCobra71 >>




    Lately I've been going with a table saw. Just trim off three edges and that's it. Very clean, no shattered plastic, only takes about 30 seconds and that's because I have to reset the guide. I could probably do a half dozen in 90 seconds, though I've never done more than three at once thus far. Also, it doesn't matter what type of slab it is either. They all cut cleanly with zero resistance.
    "Lenin is certainly right. There is no subtler or more severe means of overturning the existing basis of society(destroy capitalism) than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
    John Marnard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 235ff
  • DRGDRG Posts: 817 ✭
    I would go with the rest of the group on this. Not surprised by NGC MS64 but because of the weakness of strike around the obverse hair/braid and not quite perfect hair around the horn on the reverse PCGS MS63.....BUT could go MS64 at PCGS on a good day!

    Nice coin overall.


    My 1914 S has very nice obverse detail, LIBERTY is about the same and the reverse detail is about the same..... It was a PCGS MS63.
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