Grade the Albany half

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• TomB Posts: 22,359 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 4, 2008 12:51PM

  Does the top of the knee of the beaver have rub? It looks like it does. Additionally, the area beneath STATES OF on the reverse appears impaired. Aside from that, all I can tell is that it has most likely been dipped.

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 4, 2008 12:51PM

  Looks like it was once a nice CHBU+ but now has album slide friction on the badgers head and rear hip.

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 4, 2008 12:54PM

  knee of the beaver
  
  Do Beavers have Knees

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• braddick Posts: 25,000 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 4, 2008 1:17PM

  
  
  << <i> knee of the beaver
  
  Do Beavers have Knees >>
  
  
  
  Sure, just like the rest of us: food, shelter, love. All of God's creatures have needs.

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• cheezhed Posts: 6,117 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 4, 2008 1:20PM

  AU58 Altered Surfaces

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• CoinJunkie Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 4, 2008 1:26PM

  
  Hmmm, sort of looks cleaned to me, and not sure about the aforementioned (ahem) beaver rub.
  
  OTOH, the strike is fabulous, and coupled with the lack of marks, would otherwise put the coin
  in the 66-67 range, I think.
  

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• tcmitssr Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭

  October 4, 2008 3:51PM

  Appears cleaned, some subtle knicks.
  
  AU58
  
  Sorry, if you were hoping for something higher.

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• Connecticoin Posts: 13,149 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 4, 2008 9:09PM

  Hard to tell for sure from the image -- the coin looks dipped, and there appears to be some faint hairlines in the fields from a cleaning. If the hairlines are very light, then I would guess MS 62/63, if the harilines are very noticeable, then bodybag.

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• messydesk Posts: 20,461 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 5, 2008 3:37AM

  What looks like wipe marks above the beaver by S•O might just be a funny toning pattern I've seen on a few Albanys, including mine. Can't tell from the picture if the spot on the beaver's thigh is wear or not, although it sure looks like it. AU64.

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• Connecticoin Posts: 13,149 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 7, 2008 3:41AM

  
  
  << <i>What looks like wipe marks above the beaver by S•O might just be a funny toning pattern I've seen on a few Albanys, including mine. Can't tell from the picture if the spot on the beaver's thigh is wear or not, although it sure looks like it. AU64. >>
  
  
  
  You might be on to something -- a comparable "wipe" is on the obverse (under "H") of this one (which graded MS66):
  
  
  
  

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• BillJones Posts: 35,021 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 7, 2008 4:00AM

  It probably got an MS-64 grade. It can't grade any higher because it has a few marks and it's been dipped. If it's in an MS-63 holder, it's high end for that.

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• Longacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭

  October 7, 2008 4:13AM

  Obverse is 65, reverse is 64. I would feel comfortable with a 64 overall, and I would give you a sticker at that grade.

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