NEW CONTEST JUNE 2014!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Daniel]

Alright, here's our June contest and there will be 4 prize winners for this one! I have one blank nickel planchet and three copper plated cent planchets. Whoever get's the most answers correct will win the nickel planchet. I will award the three cent planchets based on the next best three answers.

Once you post your answer there's no editing your answer, so may it good the first time.

Okay, these are the questions you must answer.

1. Which of these coins are cleaned?
2. Which is damaged?
3. Which are authentic?
4. Which isn't cleaned?
5. What grading company or companies do you think encapsulated these coins?

The first two images are the prizes.

[PetesPockets55]

I'll take a shot since cleaned coins and silver are two of my many weaknesses.

1. Which of these coins are cleaned?
1877 Trade
1871 Seated Liberty 1$
1889cc Morgan
1895o Morgan

2. Which is damaged?
1877 Trade Dollar (Obv. scratches under elbow)
1871 Seated Liberty 1$ (Since cleaned should qualify as damaged)
1889cc (Obv. scratches)

3. Which are authentic? (You are asking so there must be at least one counterfeit/altered)
This is a tough one!
1877s trade dollar ( the "s" appears to be fake/square/smushed))

4. Which isn't cleaned?
1878 Morgan

5. What grading company or companies do you think encapsulated these coins?
NGC (soap bars)?

Boy, you sure know how to make a persons head hurt! :l

[Christian651]

1877 copy coin
1871 seated vg details (cleaned)
1878 cc ms 65 (not cleaned)
1889 cc vg details scrated and rim damage (damaged)
1895 o xf details (cleaned)

and ill say anacs graded them

[Christian651]

meant 78 p o well cant edit lol

[2centsal]

WOW !! Great Contest !! Like the song says " A shot in the dark "........

1) Cleaned : 1871 Seated Dollar and 1878 Morgan

2) Damaged : 1895 O Morgan

3) Real : 1878 Morgan and 1895 o Morgan

4) Isn't cleaned : 1878 Morgan

5) NGC / ANACS

I might of rushed it, but I didn't wan to get any crazier than I already am . At least I tried . : )--

[dipper13]

Bogus -- Trade dollar

Cleaned --- 1895 0, 1889cc

Damaged --- 1895 0 (rim), 1889cc (rim)

All graded by PCGS

[gkulm]

OK, I'm a real newbie but will take a guess:
Cleaned - 1889cc, 1895o
Damaged - 1878 Morgan
Fake - 1877 Trade
Graded by ANACS

[mhonzell]

Thanks for the contest! Excellent

Cleaned: 89
Damaged: 95
Fake: 77
Graded by PCGS... those that are "graded".

[sidingguy]

1. Which of these coins are cleaned?
1877trade dollar, 1895-O Morgan Dollar,

2. Which is damaged?
1895-O Morgan Dollar

3. Which are authentic?
1889-CC Morgan Dollar, 1878 Morgan Dollar, 1871 Dollar

4. Which isn't cleaned?
1878 Morgan Dollar (8 tail feathers)

5. What grading company or companies do you think encapsulated these coins?
PCGS and NGC

I am just taking a wild guess on this...

[Steven_B]

1-1871, 1878, 1889 & 1895
2-1895
3-1878, 1889, 1895, & 1871
4-1877
5-NGC

[JesW87]

1. 1871, 1877, 1889, 1895.
2. 1877 on the rim, 1889 on rim and various, and 1895 tiny chip on top of rim
3. 1877 "s" is too severely deformed to be accidental.
4. 1878
5. NGC without a doubt

[cableman]

Guessing authenticity is tough without being able to weigh them.So here goes my guesses :
1- 78,89,
2- 89,95,78,77
3- 78,95
4-77,71,95
5- NGC

[2centsal]

Daniel, can you tell everyone when this Contest ends exactly ??
Thank You. Sal

[JesW87]

I vote that anyone who has a username beginning with a "J" and ending with a "7" instantly wins.

[Daniel]

The contest ends when June ends. So I will figure up the winners on July 1st. Thanks to all who have entered the contest!

[ss silver]

1. cleaned 1878 Morgan, and 1895 Morgan, 1889 Morgan
2. damaged 1878 Morgan, 1895 Morgan , 1889 Morgan
3. authentic , all except the trade dollar
4. not cleaned is the seated dollar and trade dollar
5. graded by ANACS
here is my answer thanks for the mind blower

[Daniel]

Here's the contest answers. I have no idea how to name the winners since the answers were all over the place. I will make my announcement this evening on the winners.

I thank everyone for entering!!!

1. Which of these coins are cleaned?
1871, 1878, 1889-CC, 1895-O
The only coin that wasn't cleaned is the 1877-S.

2. Which is damaged?
1877-S
The coin is damaged but not labeled as cleaned.

3. Which are authentic?
All of them are authentic, even the Trade Dollar.

4. Which isn't cleaned?
1877-S Trade Dollar because it's damaged.

5. What grading company or companies do you think encapsulated these coins?
PCGS

[mhonzell]

Thanks for the contest, Daniel!
Determining cleaned coins from photos is tough! Everyone should take that away from this contest.

[2centsal]

:agree: It was a great learning experience.
Can anyone tell me what or how the Trade Dollar was Damaged ? I personally thought it was a Fake since so many are. That's why I bought one slabbed ( the one as my Avatar ). speaking of Cleaned, I got most of those wrong also .Anyone willing to explain them ? I guess the grading Company was just a guess ? Or was it ?
Anyway, Thanks so much for the Contest Daniel ! :thumbsup:
You gave me an Idea for the next Contest .

[Steven_B]

:agree: It was a great learning experience.
Can anyone tell me what or how the Trade Dollar was Damaged ? speaking of Cleaned, I got most of those wrong also .Anyone willing to explain them ?.

I'll guess... Probably wrong but I will try. To me it appears that the trade dollar has and old cleaning with a coating added. The others 1871 and 1889 looks to have and old cleaning appearing as having been rubbed in the fields and high points leaving build up next to the devises. The 1895 appears to have been dipped. The 1878 shows cleaning as small scratches seen best in the fields of the obverse and reverse.


OK now tear me apart here. lol.


Steven

[Daniel]

I picked images of coins that didn't look like what the label stated. I may or may not agree with PCGS on these coins but it's near impossible to know what condition a coin is using images. I think I did too good of a job since there's really not a clear-cut winner of this contest.

I am still undecided. So I will do a drawing for all who entered and award the prizes that way. If any of you disagree or can come up with a more fair solution then please let me know before tomorrow evening.

[2centsal]

:agree: That may be the way to go . You have my vote .

[Daniel]

Thanks Sal.

[PetesPockets55]

Thanks for a great contest Daniel. It really stretched my eyes and mind. One thing I took away was the need to really read my responses.
I boogered that part up pretty well. widegrin

[mhonzell]

I guess the grading Company was just a guess ? Or was it ?

Look at top of 95 obverse and top left of 78 reverse. You can just make out the wide PCGS cushions. I assumed they were all one company after that.

[dipper13]

I knew all Daniel uses is PCGS. That is why I got that one right.

[Daniel]

Here's the winners of this contest by a drawing.

Petespockets55 wins the blank nickel planchet.

sidingguy
mhonzell
eric651 are winners of one of the blank Lincoln Cent planchets.

:winnah: :trophy: Congrats guys and thanks for entering!!!!

[PetesPockets55]

Thank you Daniel because I know it was a lot of work on your part also. It certainly was an eye opener about the cleaned coins.
It seems like there was a good turnout for this contest.
Daniel, thanks for all your efforts and hard work for everything you do behind the scenes we don't know about.

Hope everyone has a great "4th". :patriot:

[mhonzell]

Thanks for the awesome contest.

I'd like to see more posts on cleaned coin photos. It's a really tough one to learn with photos. But, there's information to be learned there.

[Steven_B]

Thanks for the contest and congrats to the winners.

[cableman]

Nice contest.I was unaware that pcgs slabbed "cleaned" coins (I got some back in a body bag). Maybe just the authenic tag?

[Christian651]

Thank you for a great contest and congrats to the winners

[2centsal]

:winnah:

Congrat's to all the winner's and Thanks to Daniel for taking the time to put this together for us. I feel it was a fair way to pick them and they all deserve it !! Anyone that takes the time to compete in these Contests are Winner's in my book, so I think everyone who tried is a Winner ! :thumbsup: