Newbie asks - Did you ever get the top grade?

ICOLLECTINEEDHELP · March 27, 2010 11:49AM

How many have submitted a coin that meets the top grade known, and actually received that grade?
I'm mostly referring to obsolete coinage here not moderns.

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lkeigwin · March 27, 2010 11:55AM

This is a pretty talented audience so my guess is the number is fairly high. I am a modest newby by comparison but I have more than a handful at the top grade.

Welcome to the forum!
Lance.

ICOLLECTINEEDHELP · March 27, 2010 11:56AM

Thank you very much. I have been reading and learning alot from everyone.
I just wonder about the faireness of grading at the top 2. From my own experience,
I have been pretty disappointed and I'm thinking the problem might be my own lack of grading finesse.

ICOLLECTINEEDHELP · March 27, 2010 12:00PM

Yes,

I recognize the value of the combined talent here. It's like I've graduated Jr. College and now have the opportunity to ask the professors at University.

Good for you on those top graded's.
That's what I was hoping to hear; it's encouraging.

BECOKA · March 27, 2010 12:02PM

Best I have done is make the top 20 for a particular date and series.

DennisH · March 27, 2010 12:04PM

I have a few times (but they were all Morgan VAMs).
One of them still is tied for the top grade with one other coin.

LindeDad · March 27, 2010 12:36PM

I made a couple of TOP POPS in my first year of submitting but I was submitting moderns. But just so you know my biggest hit was a coin I found and bought as a VF that when submitted came back as AU53 what I thought was toning was really remaing luster.

Mesquite · March 27, 2010 12:47PM

I once submitted an entire Wright Bros. commem. series and all came back MS or PR69 except the gold $10 - which came back MS63. That is my only conditional rarity.

Fairlaneman · March 27, 2010 12:59PM

Can only take half credit for the Pop1 coin that I helped make. Its a 1946S Roosevelt that I submitted and got a MS67FB grade on it. About a year later I noticed it was a Double Die and then the coin was purchased from me by a collector that is into designations. The new owner submitted it for the DD designation and the coin received it. I think it still is a Pop1.

Hello and welcome to the farm.

Ken

JCMhouston · March 27, 2010 1:37PM

I have a couple of 18th and 19th C. top pops that I submitted. But they are all World coins.

tydye · March 27, 2010 2:58PM

None in US but I have a few in world. But world is not that hard. I have one where I am both the top and the low grade (only one graded)

ricko · March 28, 2010 12:05AM

"I just wonder about the faireness of grading at the top 2. From my own experience,
I have been pretty disappointed and I'm thinking the problem might be my own lack of grading finesse."
This is a very important statement.... when one recognizes that one's skill level may, indeed, be less than the grading experts, then one is on the way to expanding knowledge and skills. Congratulations Grasshopper...

Cheers, RickO

jonathanb · March 28, 2010 5:08AM

1860-O dime

Type2 · March 28, 2010 5:13AM

All my coins are modern junk so no never.

RYK · March 28, 2010 5:13AM

Collectors do frequently get the top grades. I have seen it posted here often over the last several years.

yellowjacket · March 28, 2010 1:18PM

1942 and 1947 Lincoln Cents, and 1951 1nd 1952 FB Roosevelt Dimes.

But I guess you would call them moderns, eh?
Garrow

ICOLLECTINEEDHELP · March 28, 2010 2:15PM

No,no, not at all. I would call a Sacagewia(spell check) a modern.

Congratulations on those, that's cool.

Thanks! I'm seeing a number of collectors who have achieved that distinction. It's good to see.

Moderns are to me anything you can submit in bulk and have some hope of getting some 70s back.

Newbie asks - Did you ever get the top grade?

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