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A PCGS MS66RD IH gone bad?

shylockshylock Posts: 4,288 ✭✭✭
Heritage describes this 1903 PCGS MS66RD as such: "Booming luster sweeps this mark-free pumpkin-gold example. A few pinpoint obverse flecks are noted near 3 o'clock, and a vertical apple-green streak reaches the N in CENT."

The "few" pinpoint obverse flecks deserve a biopsy.

The "vertical apple-green streak" looks like gangrene.

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  • BunkerBunker Posts: 3,926
    Booming luster sweeps this mark-free pumpkin-gold example

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  • STONESTONE Posts: 15,275

    2 Questions: How did that coin make it in a 66 holder and I need to question the RD part as well. As a Indian cent man I'm disgusted with that coin.
  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,204 ✭✭✭✭✭
    gesundheit! image
  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 13,109 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would think that coin turned in the holder. It would probably get a 63 if resubmitted.
  • ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,688 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1) The coin IMO would be precluded from a 6 RD designation by the spots alone.
    2) Why does the coin have what appear to be luster breaks / changes in luster above the eye, on the hair below ER, below the ear, and on the upper cheekbone below the eye? Is this BN coloration? If so, the coin S/B in a RB, not RD holder. If not, the coin's a slider.
    3) Either that's one huge toning spot on the reverse, or someone took a dump on the coin & let it stay for on it for decades..
    4) What is that line that comes from the rim @ 9:30 and goes at a 30% angle to just in front of LIBERTY? It appears to be from the die, rather than a scratch, but I'd like this to be clarified.

    To me, this is an unattractive 4 RB.
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  • shylockshylock Posts: 4,288 ✭✭✭
    STONE - PCGS is tough with these coins, it had to of been a doctoring job gone bad.

    And yes, Heritage has no problem with selling coins like this. IH inventory is thin between major sales.
    Take a look at some of the NGC coins they're selling in the Long Beach sale.
  • shylockshylock Posts: 4,288 ✭✭✭
    gesundheit!

    TDN said it best (God Bless You) image
  • tjkilliantjkillian Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭
    A low-end MS-64Red.

    God bless you!

    Tom
    Tom

  • PushkinPushkin Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭


    << <i> it had to of been a doctoring job gone bad. >>



    Yes, the person that played with it likely didn't bother to neutralize the coin after they "improved" it. Coins that haven't been neutralized with water/alcohol, acetone, or whatever will often cook in their slabs. I suspect if you look at it from an angle you will likely find areas on the high points that look like dull brass rather than bronze. Very sad. image
  • GATGAT Posts: 3,146
    A good example of why I won't touch copper
    USAF vet 1951-59
  • tsacchtsacch Posts: 2,929 ✭✭✭
    Pig
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    And my collector friends wonder why I stopped submitting.

    A good doctor will often disguise a diagnosis with common bullcrap so a family is eased into the symptoms and problems associated with it. Candy coating...or in this case curating gone bad. As a healthcare provider and rehab director, I dance around the truth to candy coat....or explain the diagnosis to ease thier/families pain. This coin is a bad doctor job for sure.
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  • The power of descriptive words; And in this case a load of BS!
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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,460 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Time for PCGS to show up and disavow the grade. image

    On a more serious note, I had a 66R go bad and PCGS stepped up to the plate and reimbursed me fairly. It's the only red PCGS coin that I've ever had trouble with.

    It was a coin that I think Shylock is familiar with. image

    I suspect the consignor would do better with PCGS than at auction with this dog.
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  • RBinTexRBinTex Posts: 4,328
    Sam,

    Why not get the "big" coins you're selling on eBay attributed ON THE SLAB by PCGS? image
  • shylockshylock Posts: 4,288 ✭✭✭
    It was a coin that I think Shylock is familiar with.

    That may have been a tubular lighting experiment gone bad...but if PCGS stepped up to the plate more power to them image
  • rainbowroosierainbowroosie Posts: 4,875 ✭✭✭✭
    ugly
    "You keep your 1804 dollar and 1822 half eagle -- give me rainbow roosies in MS68."
    rainbowroosie April 1, 2003

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