This is the type of grading I like when searching Ebay...

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• seanq Posts: 8,735 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 14, 2009 7:38AM

  Wow, I'll buy "VF" early Lincolns at that price all day.
  
  
  Sean Reynolds

  Incomplete planchets wanted, especially Lincoln Cents & type coins.
  
  "Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor

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• jonathanb Posts: 3,764 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 14, 2009 8:02AM

  Odd. I've bought from that seller before, and they're usually more accurate than that.

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• Hawgstick Posts: 240 ✭✭

  December 14, 2009 8:17AM

  Did you buy the anacs photo-grade 1901 s $5 gold eagle from him?

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• coindeuce Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 14, 2009 8:18AM

  From the seller's image of the reverse, it certainly does not appear to have much definition and/or separation in the tops of the wheat stalks. How do you figure it's better than VF, given that observation?

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• relicsncoins Posts: 8,114 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 14, 2009 8:33AM

  
  
  << <i>From the seller's image of the reverse, it certainly does not appear to have much definition and/or separation in the tops of the wheat stalks. How do you figure it's better than VF, given that observation? >>
  
  
  
  It looks to me to have at least half the mint luster left. The coin looks AU+ to me from the images.

  Need a Barber Half with ANACS photo certificate. If you have one for sale please PM me. Current Ebay auctions

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• OneCent Posts: 3,561 ✭

  December 14, 2009 8:52AM

  
  
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  << <i>From the seller's image of the reverse, it certainly does not appear to have much definition and/or separation in the tops of the wheat stalks. How do you figure it's better than VF, given that observation? >>
  
  
  
  It looks to me to have at least half the mint luster left. The coin looks AU+ to me from the images. >>
  
  
  
  
  I agree that it does look at minimum AU-50 from the images.
  
  However, it is impossible to tell from that photo if the coin has been cleaned.
  It may very well have been.
  
  Did you buy it?
  
  
  

  
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• relicsncoins Posts: 8,114 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 14, 2009 10:32AM

  
  
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  << <i>From the seller's image of the reverse, it certainly does not appear to have much definition and/or separation in the tops of the wheat stalks. How do you figure it's better than VF, given that observation? >>
  
  
  
  It looks to me to have at least half the mint luster left. The coin looks AU+ to me from the images. >>
  
  
  
  
  I agree that it does look at minimum AU-50 from the images.
  
  However, it is impossible to tell from that photo if the coin has been cleaned.
  It may very well have been.
  
  Did you buy it? >>
  
  
  
  No, I was just watching it.

  Need a Barber Half with ANACS photo certificate. If you have one for sale please PM me. Current Ebay auctions

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• Kablemodem Posts: 466

  December 14, 2009 11:57AM

  It has some crud on the reverse, and I think on the obverse as well.

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