1920 Pilgrim - Graded

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• jmj3esq Posts: 5,421 ✭

  July 23, 2008 12:15PM

  Nice job. You took a little gamble on those seller's photos. It looks absolutely flat with no luster. Not a bad score.

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• lasvegasteddy Posts: 10,432 ✭✭✭

  July 23, 2008 12:17PM

  sweet lil cha-cha-ching

  everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see
  
  
  

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• FatMan Posts: 8,977 ✭

  July 23, 2008 12:17PM

  Well played. Congrats.

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• pheh Posts: 1,588 ✭

  July 23, 2008 12:22PM

  Indeed - that is a clear win. Congrats.

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• derryb Posts: 37,667 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 23, 2008 12:25PM

  very nice score. congrats.
  
  looks like you deserve a "you suck" award on this one.

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• Goldbully Posts: 17,939 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 23, 2008 12:38PM

  

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• nicetoning42107 Posts: 1,162

  July 23, 2008 1:04PM

  Definitely a gamble based on the seller's pics. I've bought Classic Commems with pics like that. Sometimes they turn out all right, sometimes they end up being cleaned or even lightly circulated!
  
  Congrats!

  A lie told often enough becomes the truth. ~Vladimir Lenin

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• mozin Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭

  July 23, 2008 1:05PM

  Looks like your are a true gambler. This time you most definitely won. I would not even have placed a bid on this one. Good for you!

  I collect Capped Bust series by variety in PCGS AU/MS grades.

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• Mesquite Posts: 4,075 ✭✭✭

  July 23, 2008 1:09PM

  Excellent!

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• cheezhed Posts: 6,009 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 23, 2008 1:14PM

  For the price paid it's not really a gamble and the seller has good feedback and return policy.
  
  I also screen any of my coins I send in.
  
  It was a pleasant surprise though, I was worried about the hits on the reverse.
  
  Thanks for all the comments.
  
  
  
  

  Many happy BST transactions

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• Coll3ctor Posts: 3,355 ✭✭✭

  July 23, 2008 1:48PM

  Very Nice !!!

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• LeeG Posts: 12,162 ✭

  July 23, 2008 7:54PM

  Nice Job!!
  
  

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• blueifalcon Posts: 963 ✭

  July 23, 2008 9:09PM

  Very, very, nice

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• richardshipp Posts: 5,647 ✭✭✭

  July 23, 2008 9:36PM

  Congrats. Nice score.

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• Jcarney Posts: 3,154 ✭

  July 23, 2008 10:14PM

  
  
  << <i>It was a pleasant surprise though, I was worried about the hits on the reverse.
  
  Thanks for all the comments. >>
  
  
  
  To tell you the truth, I'm surprised it got a 65 with the hits on the mast. I've looked at a lot of these and almost invariably, hits on the mast precluded a 65 grade. It seems this issue is more technically graded by both PCGS and NGC than other coins. I've seen butt ugly, darkly toned Pilgrims with clean surfaces in 65 holders and gorgeous, lustrous Pilgrims with a couple hits on the mast slabbed as 63. Go figure.

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