Looking For Info On This 1885 5c Real?

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• AUandAG Posts: 24,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 14, 2011 11:51AM

  Yes, I think it is real but it sure has been compromised. Genuine slab.
  
  bob
  
  PS: not an expert in the series, although I do collect them

  Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
  

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• Raybo Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 14, 2011 11:55AM

  I think so.

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• JamesM Posts: 757 ✭

  April 14, 2011 11:56AM

  
  
  << <i>Yes, I think it is real but it sure has been compromised. Genuine slab.
  
  bob
  
  PS: not an expert in the series, although I do collect them >>
  
  
  
  
  it is sad because it looks like it has some nice detail left under all little holes...
  
  
  
  any guesses as to a net grade / gross grade?
  
  Thanks for your help

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• AUandAG Posts: 24,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 14, 2011 12:00PM

  Can't put a number on it. It's genuine and that's what it is. A wild arse guess is just
  that.
  
  bob

  Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
  

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• JamesM Posts: 757 ✭

  April 14, 2011 12:02PM

  Well after looking at the coin more I can see much more detail on the wreath then you should be able to see on a circulated coin. I am thinking from the high point on the wreath that this coin “was” a high EF/AU before the surface was destroyed.
  
  Oh well.....

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• LanLord Posts: 11,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 14, 2011 12:10PM

  Looks as though it spent a lot of time in the ground, and some tough years at that.
  
  Will our hosts genny a dug coin?

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• pursuitofliberty Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 14, 2011 12:32PM

  I agree that it certainly looks real ... however enviromentally challanged it is now
  
  Kindof sad, especially since it did have some meat on the bone
  
  

  
  “We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
  
  Todd - BHNC #242

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• TomB Posts: 22,093 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 14, 2011 12:37PM

  Looks like a genuine, corroded coin.

  Thomas Bush Numismatics & Numismatic Photography
  
  In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
  
  

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• swhuck Posts: 546 ✭✭✭

  April 15, 2011 1:43AM

  
  
  << <i>any guesses as to a net grade / gross grade? >>
  
  
  
  I think it grades gross.
  
  Details XF or so, IMO. No clue what the net grade would be, but with that date it's certainly saleable.

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• PQueue Posts: 901 ✭✭✭

  April 15, 2011 2:33AM

  I have seen AG03's I like better.

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• BillJones Posts: 34,843 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 15, 2011 2:41AM

  Net grade would only be PR-01 to Fair-02.
  
  What's it worth? The Gray Sheet Good bid is $465. What price would budget minded collector pay for an “esthetically challenged” filler like this? I’d say that a dealer would be happy to get $50 for it, and it might sit for quite a while at that price. Most collectors prefer honest wear to environmental damage like this.
  
  This coin was probably lost in the late 1880s or early 1890s, which explains the sharpness, and later found with a metal detector.

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