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I just took a 'Vermont grading challenge"
ambro51
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Got my copy of the 2001 hinckley sale catalog featuring 130 Vermont coppers. In the color plates at the front of the catalog, 30 pieces were illustrated . So I looked at each coin photo a few seconds and the first grade number that popped into my head,,wrote it down. Then to the full catalog descriptions ,,copied down bowers and merena grades ( all coins were raw uncertified). Well.....my grade values for the thirty plated coins was 1150. The cataloger grades added up to 993. This showed me I am overgradeing by 15% . Still though not too far off as I see it.
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By the way, I once owned a 1788 Vermont Ryder 16 that had a provenance to Dr. Hinkley's collection. He had nice stuff.
Agree 100% with MLC, this is a fantastic exercise to do to home your grading skills of colonials. For many years I did this same thing and at the beginning I was a bit off, but as I continued I got closer and closer to the grade total from the catalog. Of course, each cataloguer has different grading tendencies (I am talking about older collections where all the colonials are raw) than others, and whether they are right or wrong on their grading is a different story all together.
In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson