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Grade Opinions- Three Cent Nickel

LeianaLeiana Posts: 4,349 ✭
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Here I go again. image

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I have my opinion and I am more confident in this opinion than I was with my 3CS.

The coin is in an album!! There is NO rim damage.

Please say what you grade it and, if possible, why you give it that grade. I find that makes for more educational posts, and this is about education here.

Thanks in advance! image

-Amanda
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  • TorinoCobra71TorinoCobra71 Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭
    VF20??

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    TorinoCobra71

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  • robertprrobertpr Posts: 6,862 ✭✭✭
    VF35. Interestingly, I see more wear on the obverse than the reverse. Nice coin.
  • MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,188 ✭✭✭✭
    I grade the coin VF details, net F for corrosion -- with the disclaimer that I am anything but a circulated 3CN expert.

    Thanks for sharing....Mike
    Collector of Large Cents, US Type, and modern pocket change.
  • JJMJJM Posts: 8,089 ✭✭✭✭✭
    VF30....same observation of additional wear on obv....good bit of meat on the rev...nice original coin.....
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  • rsdoug81rsdoug81 Posts: 682 ✭✭
    You're such a troublemaker with these 3 cent pieces! image

    I'll go with the crowd and give it a VF...20?
  • NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 11,003 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I agree with VF details possibly due to what seems like corrosion.

    3 cent nickels are cool.
  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    25 Amanda, but this one has been cleaned pretty harshly.
    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    VF-ish
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  • JJMJJM Posts: 8,089 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>25 Amanda, but this one has been cleaned pretty harshly. >>



    it always amazes me that people say "they cant grade from a pic", yet can apparently easily tell if there cleaned from pics?????


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  • coinguy1coinguy1 Posts: 13,484 ✭✭✭
    "Mr. loosey-goosey 3c grader" grades it VF35+. These coins are not well made/struck and I don't see THAT much wear on this one.
  • robertprrobertpr Posts: 6,862 ✭✭✭


    << <i>"Mr. loosey-goosey 3c grader" grades it VF35+. These coins are not well made/struck and I don't see THAT much wear on this one. >>



    First I'm crooked, now I'm loosey-goosey? image
  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>25 Amanda, but this one has been cleaned pretty harshly. >>



    it always amazes me that people say "they cant grade from a pic", yet can apparently easily tell if there cleaned from pics????? >>



    Do you think this coin has not been cleaned?
    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • JJMJJM Posts: 8,089 ✭✭✭✭✭
    no I cant say that , I cant tell,...thats my point , you guys can pic it right up....generally unless blantant , I need to see it in hand to get a opinion......I guess I dont know what to look for

    no offence intended
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  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,589 ✭✭✭✭✭
    According to the PCGS Grading book: ...(F12/15) "...there will be 10-20% of the hair detail on strong strikes and most of the leaves of the wreath should be separated. Well-struck coins will have some lines on Roman numerals visible..."


    ...(VF20/35)..examples will have 25-50% of hair detail missing...

    I don't see 50-75% of hair detail

    I say F12

    Leo
    Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;

    Successful BST transactions with: SilverEagles92; Ahrensdad; Smitty; GregHansen; Lablade; Mercury10c; copperflopper; whatsup; KISHU1; scrapman1077, crispy, canadanz, smallchange, robkool, Mission16, ranshdow, ibzman350, Fallguy, Collectorcoins, SurfinxHI, jwitten, Walkerguy21D, dsessom.
  • coinguy1coinguy1 Posts: 13,484 ✭✭✭
    NGC VF30:

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    PCGS VF35:

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  • LeianaLeiana Posts: 4,349 ✭
    I feel I must interject my belief that the coin is niether corroded nor cleaned. image

    -Amanda
    image

    I'm a YN working on a type set!

    My Buffalo Nickel Website Home of the Quirky Buffaloes Collection!

    Proud member of the CUFYNA
  • coinguy1coinguy1 Posts: 13,484 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>"Mr. loosey-goosey 3c grader" grades it VF35+. These coins are not well made/struck and I don't see THAT much wear on this one. >>



    First I'm crooked, now I'm loosey-goosey? image >>

    I was speaking of myself, not you, (crooked)image
  • JJMJJM Posts: 8,089 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ok, looks right in the middle..........VF33
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  • JJMJJM Posts: 8,089 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I feel I must interject my belief that the coin is niether corroded nor cleaned. image

    -Amanda >>



    I spec ya might have some explaining to do now !
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  • arlea1957arlea1957 Posts: 817
    Louis Leaky would give this a vf 20

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  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Let's ask Mark because this is not my series and if I am wrong I would like to know as well as admit that I was wrong...
    Mark- by these pics would your first gut assessment (and I have heard that there is none better than your first gut reactionimage ) be that this one has been cleaned-especially looking at the mottled reverse?
    I hope I am wrong Amanda....
    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,589 ✭✭✭✭✭
    OK...Is there something other than hair detail in grading these things??? Apparently, I'm about as good at grading 3 Cent Nickels as I am at grading 3 Cent Silvers...image
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  • coinguy1coinguy1 Posts: 13,484 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Let's ask Mark because this is not my series and if I am wrong I would like to know as well as admit that I was wrong...
    Mark- by these pics would your first gut assessment (and I have heard that there is none better than your first gut reactionimage ) be that this one has been cleaned-especially looking at the mottled reverse?
    I hope I am wrong Amanda.... >>

    From the images, it looks as if the coin MIGHT have been lightly cleaned. However, it very well might just be the lighting/images. By the way, I deal primarily in high grade mint state and Proof coins, so I am out of my element with respect to coins like this.
  • HighReliefHighRelief Posts: 3,720 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think it could go VF30 with the reverse looking more VF35.

    Nice coin Leiana image
  • IGWTIGWT Posts: 4,975 ✭
    Pictures can be deceiving; but, based just on the picture, I'd guess that somebody tried to put some luster back on a corroded/VF details coin.
  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭
    VF-30+ details, looks porous. The reverse looks to have fully EF details given the full "III". Maybe VF-35 overall?
  • LeianaLeiana Posts: 4,349 ✭


    << <i>By the way, I deal primarily in high grade mint state and Proof coins, so I am out of my element with respect to coins like this. >>



    Ouch. image

    -Amanda
    image

    I'm a YN working on a type set!

    My Buffalo Nickel Website Home of the Quirky Buffaloes Collection!

    Proud member of the CUFYNA
  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭
    Of course you can't grade from an image.......image

    Let me then proffer a sharpness grade of EF45 / Net VF30 due to corrosion (or the appearance thereof). It also looks to be struck from a die with a good bit of erosion.
  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hey Amanda,
    Looking at that pic again it looks like a flash was used. If that is the case Amanda that may explain why I see a cleaned coin also. Reflections from a flash can give that "too bright" look to a coin like this.
    If you think the coin has not been cleaned with the coin in hand, than I will defer to your assessment that the coin is original. Let me also say that without a cleaning, the coin will be more in the 30 range in my opinionimage
    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • robertprrobertpr Posts: 6,862 ✭✭✭
    In my crooked opinion, I think there may indeed have been a flash used in the image, or a high ISO setting on the camera.
  • PrethenPrethen Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭
    45-50
  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    XF40, photo taken with flash. A nice coin for a circulated 7070.

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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,707 ✭✭✭✭✭
    VF, but more marks than I like to see on a coin of that grade. The reverse looks XF.
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  • MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,188 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I feel I must interject my belief that the coin is niether corroded nor cleaned. image

    -Amanda >>



    I'm happy to defer to your judgement of the coin in hand, and am glad to hear your assessment. image In retrospect, perhaps the picture fooled me. image
    Collector of Large Cents, US Type, and modern pocket change.
  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,313 ✭✭✭✭✭
    XF40, but I hate being known as loosier & goosier than Coinguy1.

    Some of these in choice BU are missing 25% of the reverse bands and plenty of hair detail.

    roadrunner


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  • mcheathmcheath Posts: 2,439 ✭✭✭
    25 it does look porous, but it could be the lighting
  • FrankcoinsFrankcoins Posts: 4,572 ✭✭✭
    I would say VF30, looks softly struck from a worn die on a rough planchet!
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  • rec78rec78 Posts: 5,872 ✭✭✭✭✭
    VF30-35 . The obverse seems a little wavery but it could just be the photo.
    image
  • robertprrobertpr Posts: 6,862 ✭✭✭
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  • LeianaLeiana Posts: 4,349 ✭
    Lotsa different opinions here, too. What's with these three-centers? image

    -Amanda
    image

    I'm a YN working on a type set!

    My Buffalo Nickel Website Home of the Quirky Buffaloes Collection!

    Proud member of the CUFYNA
  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    They are all over the place in slabs also Amanda. I bet you will see very similar coins in slabs covering the 20-40 range.
    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • JJMJJM Posts: 8,089 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Man, this isnt settled yet !!!!!.............shes a "pot stirrer" !!!!!!..........image
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  • LeianaLeiana Posts: 4,349 ✭


    << <i>Man, this isnt settled yet !!!!!.............shes a "pot stirrer" !!!!!!..........image >>



    I sincerely apologise. image

    -Amanda
    image

    I'm a YN working on a type set!

    My Buffalo Nickel Website Home of the Quirky Buffaloes Collection!

    Proud member of the CUFYNA
  • JJMJJM Posts: 8,089 ✭✭✭✭✭
    aw , you know Im kiddin................but you are !!!!! LOL
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