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"95% of the coin's detail must be struck up" critieria
When reading grading standards criteria I occasionally
bump into a statement saying ninety-five percent of the detail in the devices must be struck into the coin. This has caused me some confusion in grading such things as SHQ and Kennedy halves. In the case of the Statehood Quarters, I find that the shoddy striking pressure and poor coin design nearly always make the name of the state and E Pluribus Unum are never fully filled in with metal. This has caused me to throw out a lot of stunning beauties for the first year until I figured that it couldn't be helped. Nowadays I have rolls of SHQ's in storage that have this deficency (otherwise the quarters look pretty good). Trouble is, There is a CEILING to how high these coins would grade...I'm supposing that it would be MS-65. If it's less than that, then I'm in the wrong vocation. Trouble with the kennedy's is that I can find recent issue halves that look fully stuck except for the pesky "T" at the end of In God We Trust. Most coin merchants have no problem selling these coins as near supergrade, but I can't help but notice the flaw. One time I went thru 20 1998-d kennedy's and found just one that had a fully struck "T" Here's my question: How high (resonably) can such described coins be graded? Please let me know. |
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The areas you mentioned are well below 5% of the coin, assuming that
grading companies actually use the 95% standard for anything. Just be thankful you don't collect nickels. |
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"frank wight" wrote in message oups.com... When reading grading standards criteria I occasionally bump into a statement saying ninety-five percent of the detail in the devices must be struck into the coin. This has caused me some confusion in grading such things as SHQ and Kennedy halves. In the case of the Statehood Quarters, I find that the shoddy striking pressure and poor coin design nearly always make the name of the state and E Pluribus Unum are never fully filled in with metal. This has caused me to throw out a lot of stunning beauties for the first year until I figured that it couldn't be helped. Nowadays I have rolls of SHQ's in storage that have this deficency (otherwise the quarters look pretty good). Trouble is, There is a CEILING to how high these coins would grade...I'm supposing that it would be MS-65. If it's less than that, then I'm in the wrong vocation. Trouble with the kennedy's is that I can find recent issue halves that look fully stuck except for the pesky "T" at the end of In God We Trust. Most coin merchants have no problem selling these coins as near supergrade, but I can't help but notice the flaw. One time I went thru 20 1998-d kennedy's and found just one that had a fully struck "T" Here's my question: How high (resonably) can such described coins be graded? Please let me know. The real question here is "What is the definition of reasonably?" Buyers will tell you one thing, sellers another. Seldom shall the twain meet. James 'call me a pessimist, call me a realist' |
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