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Grades in - here's a top notch Walker

39Special39Special Posts: 761
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Check this one out; gorgeous luster, rim toning, flawless sun, full split thumb....and just an MS65. Must've been a tough day. Oh well, it's a beauty.

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  • RayboRaybo Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭✭✭
    65 looks about right to my eyes, I just don't see how it could be better?
  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very nice when I try to get high grades I look at all you say and I look at the center of the coin like her hand on the olive branch if you can see her fingers then it was fully struck and will be a bit higher in grade. image


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  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,718 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Solid coin for the grade. The strike is really not unusual on a 44P, most of them were well struck. If that coin was a 44S with that strike, now that would be exceptional!
    Actually coins like this in MS65 are why I have very few of the late dates in my set in grades higher than 65....why would I pay X more money to get a coin in 66 or 67, when you are essentially getting the same coin with a nice MS 65, at a much lower price? Then with the savings I could focus on better grades for the early dates, which are genuinely scarce.
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  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,540 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • georgiacop50georgiacop50 Posts: 2,909 ✭✭✭✭
    Beautiful. Not what I would call full thumb though.
  • breakdownbreakdown Posts: 2,258 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Really like the peripheral toning -- chatter in right obverse field would keep it out of a 67 holder but I am a bit surprised that it graded 65. It certainly looks like a great example for MS65.
    Read Walkerguy21D's post closely -- a lot of truth there.

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great looking Walker and a solid 65.... Cheers, RickO
  • greghansengreghansen Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭
    Really nice coin for a 65. Eye appeal out the ying yang. Congrats!

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  • 39Special39Special Posts: 761
    Yeah, this one really looks like a 66, technically as well as "eye appeal." PCGS did a good job on this pictures too; the rim toning has all these great colors mixed in that I was hoping they would capture, which they did!
  • llafoellafoe Posts: 7,220 ✭✭
    This is my ideal coin... toning that is subtle but doesn't overpower the coin.
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