1868 III NICKEL

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1868 III NICKEL

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This is a beauty. I had to have it even tho it cost me 1 big one , almost. Great dealer and very helpful lessons offered. Please submit your idea of grades, the PCGS platform has coins on it that this one rivals for a mint state example.
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I cant give exact grade with these images but it looks MS

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NOT mint state. Look at the wear on the reverse on number 3 . The rim damage at 12 o' clock on the obverse and the wear on her head . Sorry .
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The missing details on the columns of the reverse is not rub.
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I agree, often the mint didn't properly adjust the dies on coins. Also grease filled die strikes often prevented the details from being struck properly.

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Paul wrote: Thu Mar 25, 2021 10:19 am The missing details on the columns of the reverse is not rub.

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Unfortunately many people think the condensed answer they receive is rude!.......
It's not

Ask a question....... & get a brief key pointed "HONEST" answer....... Without receiving a long dissertation.
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Ok gentleman since I paid a fair amount of money for this coin I have noticed this after viewing it closely for any other flaws. I am suspecting this coin has been cleaned. It would be incredibly painstaking to accomplish but do these lines look normal? The phenomena only appears on the obverse so I hope my investigation is wrong.
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Please look up the term "Longacre Doubling"..... which is typically seen on Indian Head Cents, & is what you are seeing here.
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#10 Unread post by Earle42 »

Agreed
Common grading company shortcomings & resulting co$tly mi$take$ to collectors (using Kennedy No FG halves):
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I thank you all for the helpful comments, oh yes and as far as the head area and wear, it was glare and lighting after I checked more closely. It is a nice coin and will get me started to search more closely for high quality examples without breaking the bank since I have been reviewing recent sales on coins from this period and they all are selling at much lower than quoted values by PCGS or NGC on the creat collections websites and others. Shield cents are another area I have noticed the same trend as well.

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I can take the brief answers, NOW after having learned a pretty valuable lesson for a rude spontaneous response over a coin that had a lot of mechanical damage I had posted on another site and was then banned from another by someone I believe may be “the double die guy”. Nuff said. Will find authenticators somewhere else I guess. By the way , this is a $95 coin I purchased in PA. Went a little crazy and spent close to $1000 in 2 shops, hahaha should have bought those doggone silver 3 cent pieces tho, went back before I left and they were all gone.

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