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help grading a Morgan please
celtex wrote:
Newbie trying to understand the grading process. What is your best guess at the grading of this coin? I hope pictures are good enough for your guess. Thanks! Jim This photograph is better than the last one, in that it is a much smaller size. However, I must repeat that posting pictures to rec.collecting.coins is not allowed. Obviously, you can ignore the warning, but you will gain little respect and few friends by doing it. Your coin appears to have the sharpness of at least an EF, maybe even an AU, but beyond that, the image is so badly exposed that it is impossible to tell anything more. If I had to guess, I'say that it has been cleaned, it has some rim damage on the reverse, and a stain of some kind on the obverse. Any one of those problems would prevent it from getting into a respected slab. James |
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I am sorry! I will not do that again. So sorry for the pictures.
Jim "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message ... celtex wrote: Newbie trying to understand the grading process. What is your best guess at the grading of this coin? I hope pictures are good enough for your guess. Thanks! Jim This photograph is better than the last one, in that it is a much smaller size. However, I must repeat that posting pictures to rec.collecting.coins is not allowed. Obviously, you can ignore the warning, but you will gain little respect and few friends by doing it. Your coin appears to have the sharpness of at least an EF, maybe even an AU, but beyond that, the image is so badly exposed that it is impossible to tell anything more. If I had to guess, I'say that it has been cleaned, it has some rim damage on the reverse, and a stain of some kind on the obverse. Any one of those problems would prevent it from getting into a respected slab. James |
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Whats wrong with posting relevant pictures? Not even links to
pictures?? I mean coin collecting is all about what can be seen. |
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On Feb 8, 1:22Â*am, MKW wrote:
Whats wrong with posting relevant pictures? Â*Not even links to pictures?? Â*I mean coin collecting is all about what can be seen. LINKS to pictures are fine. Many people do that. Here's a LINK to a picture of a coin from JULIUS CAESAR http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/imp/j...r/RSC_0022.jpg There is a newsgroup, alt.binaries.pictures.numismatic that some people can access. (I cannot.) What does not work is attempting to post a picture directly, to imbed it with the text of a post. The Usenet Newsgroups go back before the WorldWide Web, which was created in 1993. At root, the newsgroups are a 7-bit system, so often you will see that character like the Â¥ Yen £ Pound € Euro â‚£ Franc simply do not appear but you can see where they should be if they did. In any event, when you try to imbed a picture, all you get is strings of character-based gibberish as the software translates the JPEG (GIF, etc) into text. Mike M. MIchael E. Marotta Technical Writer |
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"Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message ... celtex wrote: Newbie trying to understand the grading process. What is your best guess at the grading of this coin? I hope pictures are good enough for your guess. Thanks! Jim This photograph is better than the last one, in that it is a much smaller size. However, I must repeat that posting pictures to rec.collecting.coins is not allowed. Obviously, you can ignore the warning, but you will gain little respect and few friends by doing it. Your coin appears to have the sharpness of at least an EF, maybe even an AU, but beyond that, the image is so badly exposed that it is impossible to tell anything more. If I had to guess, I'say that it has been cleaned, it has some rim damage on the reverse, and a stain of some kind on the obverse. Any one of those problems would prevent it from getting into a respected slab. James Would you venture guess on value of this coin? |
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In article , "celtex" wrote:
"Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message ... celtex wrote: Newbie trying to understand the grading process. What is your best guess at the grading of this coin? I hope pictures are good enough for your guess. Thanks! Jim This photograph is better than the last one, in that it is a much smaller size. However, I must repeat that posting pictures to rec.collecting.coins is not allowed. Obviously, you can ignore the warning, but you will gain little respect and few friends by doing it. Your coin appears to have the sharpness of at least an EF, maybe even an AU, but beyond that, the image is so badly exposed that it is impossible to tell anything more. If I had to guess, I'say that it has been cleaned, it has some rim damage on the reverse, and a stain of some kind on the obverse. Any one of those problems would prevent it from getting into a respected slab. James Would you venture guess on value of this coin? after you apologize for trashing a text group? |
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help grading a Morgan please
celtex wrote:
"Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message ... celtex wrote: Newbie trying to understand the grading process. What is your best guess at the grading of this coin? I hope pictures are good enough for your guess. Thanks! Jim This photograph is better than the last one, in that it is a much smaller size. However, I must repeat that posting pictures to rec.collecting.coins is not allowed. Obviously, you can ignore the warning, but you will gain little respect and few friends by doing it. Your coin appears to have the sharpness of at least an EF, maybe even an AU, but beyond that, the image is so badly exposed that it is impossible to tell anything more. If I had to guess, I'say that it has been cleaned, it has some rim damage on the reverse, and a stain of some kind on the obverse. Any one of those problems would prevent it from getting into a respected slab. James Would you venture guess on value of this coin? Coin World Values quotes the value of an 1896 dollar in AU-50 at $35. In light of the likely cleaning and apparent damage, it would have to bring less. How much less is impossible to determine without the coin in hand. Part of the problem is that unmolested examples of this date are readily available, so a dealer is not going to have a market for it. I'd suggest you take it to a coin shop, though, and see what a dealer would pay for it. Don't be offended if he offers you bullion value. You can then decide whether to save or sell. If you are indeed new to the hobby, there's a lot to learn! Equip yourself with a few basic books, such as the Guide Book of United States Coins (a/k/a the Redbook) and one of the several books on grading coins that are available at most bigger bookstores. Then read them! Good luck, and let us know how this all sorts out. James |
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news In article , "celtex" wrote: "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message ... celtex wrote: Newbie trying to understand the grading process. What is your best guess at the grading of this coin? I hope pictures are good enough for your guess. Thanks! Jim This photograph is better than the last one, in that it is a much smaller size. However, I must repeat that posting pictures to rec.collecting.coins is not allowed. Obviously, you can ignore the warning, but you will gain little respect and few friends by doing it. Your coin appears to have the sharpness of at least an EF, maybe even an AU, but beyond that, the image is so badly exposed that it is impossible to tell anything more. If I had to guess, I'say that it has been cleaned, it has some rim damage on the reverse, and a stain of some kind on the obverse. Any one of those problems would prevent it from getting into a respected slab. James Would you venture guess on value of this coin? after you apologize for trashing a text group? I did in earlier post... I am not worthy.. I am lowly snail... I am ...never mind... |
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help grading a Morgan please
In article , "celtex" wrote:
wrote in message news In article , "celtex" wrote: "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message ... celtex wrote: Newbie trying to understand the grading process. What is your best guess at the grading of this coin? I hope pictures are good enough for your guess. Thanks! Jim This photograph is better than the last one, in that it is a much smaller size. However, I must repeat that posting pictures to rec.collecting.coins is not allowed. Obviously, you can ignore the warning, but you will gain little respect and few friends by doing it. Your coin appears to have the sharpness of at least an EF, maybe even an AU, but beyond that, the image is so badly exposed that it is impossible to tell anything more. If I had to guess, I'say that it has been cleaned, it has some rim damage on the reverse, and a stain of some kind on the obverse. Any one of those problems would prevent it from getting into a respected slab. James Would you venture guess on value of this coin? after you apologize for trashing a text group? I did in earlier post... I am not worthy.. I am lowly snail... I am ...never mind... ah, flyswatter, we see the futility of electrodden. are you alice cooper? |
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help grading a Morgan please
Hey Celtex, just post your pictures using www.photobucket.com , the
site is pretty self explanatory and if you do have any question just asked. |
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