Grading Opinion

Hi, I'm curious how people would grade this coin.

http://www.mycoinportal.com/images/Fugio800.jpg

or

http://www.mycoinportal.com/images/Fugio.jpg

Jorg Lueke wrote:
Hi, I'm curious how people would grade this coin.

http://www.mycoinportal.com/images/Fugio800.jpg

or

http://www.mycoinportal.com/images/Fugio.jpg

There's plenty of meat there, and I could see this appearing in some flavor
of a PCGS VF holder. On the other hand, surfaces, color, and rims count for
probably half the assessment, and the surfaces of this coin are hard to
assess from a pic. It does appear that the planchet was striated before
striking, so that might be at least partially forgiven by a slabber.

That said, I wouldn't kick it out of bed for eating crackers.

James

On Aug 16, 9:16*pm, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote:
Jorg Lueke wrote:
Hi, I'm curious how people would grade this coin.

http://www.mycoinportal.com/images/Fugio800.jpg

or

http://www.mycoinportal.com/images/Fugio.jpg

There's plenty of meat there, and I could see this appearing in some flavor
of a PCGS VF holder. *On the other hand, surfaces, color, and rims count for
probably half the assessment, and the surfaces of this coin are hard to
assess from a pic. *It does appear that the planchet was striated before
striking, so that might be at least partially forgiven by a slabber.

That said, I wouldn't kick it out of bed for eating crackers.

James

Looks better than a VF to me, Jim. Details are quite sharp for a Fugio
Cent. Unless the coin is nearly black, I'd say it would garner at
least an EF40 grade from PCGS and EF45 from NGC.

Ira

Ira wrote:
On Aug 16, 9:16 pm, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote:
Jorg Lueke wrote:
Hi, I'm curious how people would grade this coin.

http://www.mycoinportal.com/images/Fugio800.jpg

or

http://www.mycoinportal.com/images/Fugio.jpg

There's plenty of meat there, and I could see this appearing in some
flavor of a PCGS VF holder. On the other hand, surfaces, color, and
rims count for probably half the assessment, and the surfaces of
this coin are hard to assess from a pic. It does appear that the
planchet was striated before striking, so that might be at least
partially forgiven by a slabber.

That said, I wouldn't kick it out of bed for eating crackers.

James

Looks better than a VF to me, Jim. Details are quite sharp for a Fugio
Cent. Unless the coin is nearly black, I'd say it would garner at
least an EF40 grade from PCGS and EF45 from NGC.

Tell ya what, I'll buy it as a VF and sell it to you as an XF. A win-win
scenario, if I ever saw one!

James the Flipper

On Aug 17, 6:03 am, Ira wrote:
On Aug 16, 9:16 pm, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote:



Jorg Lueke wrote:
Hi, I'm curious how people would grade this coin.

http://www.mycoinportal.com/images/Fugio800.jpg

or

http://www.mycoinportal.com/images/Fugio.jpg

There's plenty of meat there, and I could see this appearing in some flavor
of a PCGS VF holder. On the other hand, surfaces, color, and rims count for
probably half the assessment, and the surfaces of this coin are hard to
assess from a pic. It does appear that the planchet was striated before
striking, so that might be at least partially forgiven by a slabber.

That said, I wouldn't kick it out of bed for eating crackers.

James

Looks better than a VF to me, Jim. Details are quite sharp for a Fugio
Cent. Unless the coin is nearly black, I'd say it would garner at
least an EF40 grade from PCGS and EF45 from NGC.

Ira

It's got nice surfaces, one of the reason's I got it. There was an
even nicer Nova but I've always wanted a Fugio. I like how everyone
talks gardes in terms of TPG :-) The universal standard remains
elusive.

On Aug 17, 7:18*am, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote:
Ira wrote:
On Aug 16, 9:16 pm, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote:
Jorg Lueke wrote:
Hi, I'm curious how people would grade this coin.

http://www.mycoinportal.com/images/Fugio800.jpg

or

http://www.mycoinportal.com/images/Fugio.jpg

There's plenty of meat there, and I could see this appearing in some
flavor of a PCGS VF holder. On the other hand, surfaces, color, and
rims count for probably half the assessment, and the surfaces of
this coin are hard to assess from a pic. It does appear that the
planchet was striated before striking, so that might be at least
partially forgiven by a slabber.

That said, I wouldn't kick it out of bed for eating crackers.

James

Looks better than a VF to me, Jim. Details are quite sharp for a Fugio
Cent. Unless the coin is nearly black, I'd say it would garner at
least an EF40 grade from PCGS and EF45 from NGC.

Tell ya what, I'll buy it as a VF and sell it to you as an XF. *A win-win
scenario, if I ever saw one!

James the Flipper

I'd buy it as an EF if Jorge would part with it.

Ira

On Aug 17, 1:41*pm, Ira wrote:
On Aug 17, 7:18*am, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote:





Ira wrote:
On Aug 16, 9:16 pm, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote:
Jorg Lueke wrote:
Hi, I'm curious how people would grade this coin.

http://www.mycoinportal.com/images/Fugio800.jpg

or

http://www.mycoinportal.com/images/Fugio.jpg

There's plenty of meat there, and I could see this appearing in some
flavor of a PCGS VF holder. On the other hand, surfaces, color, and
rims count for probably half the assessment, and the surfaces of
this coin are hard to assess from a pic. It does appear that the
planchet was striated before striking, so that might be at least
partially forgiven by a slabber.

That said, I wouldn't kick it out of bed for eating crackers.

James

Looks better than a VF to me, Jim. Details are quite sharp for a Fugio
Cent. Unless the coin is nearly black, I'd say it would garner at
least an EF40 grade from PCGS and EF45 from NGC.

Tell ya what, I'll buy it as a VF and sell it to you as an XF. *A win-win
scenario, if I ever saw one!

James the Flipper

I'd buy it as an EF if Jorge would part with it.

Ira- Hide quoted text -

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Nah, I just got it in Baltimore and will probably keep it for a long
time. Unless I upgrade along the way.