Does Luster or Detail trump in the AU-50 grade?
Longacre
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I was looking at a dealer's website, and a coin listed as AU-50 was listed as follows. Does anyone know to what extent luster does or does not trump strike for a particular coin. I view AU-50 as a pretty strange grade, so I am not sure how the different elements interact.
A lovely and totally original example with deep, crusty surfaces covered with orange-gold color that becomes slightly reddish at the obverse border. This coin does not have as much luster as you'd like to see on an AU50 but it has enough to detail to earn its assigned grade plus it is so clean and original that we would have no trouble buying ten other coins that looked like this in 50 holders (!). This is not an especially scarce date by Dahlonega standards but it is very hard to find with orignal color and surfaces.
A lovely and totally original example with deep, crusty surfaces covered with orange-gold color that becomes slightly reddish at the obverse border. This coin does not have as much luster as you'd like to see on an AU50 but it has enough to detail to earn its assigned grade plus it is so clean and original that we would have no trouble buying ten other coins that looked like this in 50 holders (!). This is not an especially scarce date by Dahlonega standards but it is very hard to find with orignal color and surfaces.
Always took candy from strangers
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
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