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DoubleEagle59DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,431 ✭✭✭✭✭
Do the TPG's allow more leeway when grading rare key date coins?

Look at the green goo on this coin, the 'semi-hole' in front of the face, the reverse scratch at 6:00 and the semi 'graffitti' at 12:00 on the obverse.

and it still grades?

help me out experts.....why?

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    AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 25,038 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Tony,
    To me I see a pocket carried cent with some hits from commercial use. Nothing
    severe enough to keep it out of a holder. Might cause a downgrade.

    bob
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    lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 9,474 ✭✭✭✭✭
    technically, I would peg this at VF30. I've been wrong before though... L
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    lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,895 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes, I agree...there is a little more leeway. I'm not sure why.

    But I really don't see anything fatal with this '77 IHC. I wouldn't mind having it in my collection.
    Lance.
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    keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    since PCGS will often "no grade" a coin with a deep scratch or a semi-hole like that, id have to say that the fact it's a key date was probably the differnce.
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    rld14rld14 Posts: 2,390 ✭✭✭
    Something tells me that coin might have been through the mails in a flip more than once....

    I don't see Longacre stickering this one.
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    Halfhunter06Halfhunter06 Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭
    You have a VF 35 example, nothing really wrong with it. Its over 130 years old and circulated

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