What would you grade this 1908 China-Chihli Dollar?

[Maocheng-migration]

What grade would you give to this coin? It is an ICG slabbed China-Chihli $.

 

[physics-fan3.14]

Not familiar with these at all, so I'm going to wager EF-40 details, cleaned.

[michael]

assuming it is a genuine original coin

 

 

gradewise

 

 

xf+

[rrantique]

assuming it is a genuine original coin

 

 

gradewise

 

 

xf+

 

Probably not genuine same as this coin.

 

http://www.tradetang.com/for-sale/American-Silver-Eagle-Dollar-Coin-1995-W-ICG-PR70-DCAM/124890-2228065.html#

[Maocheng-migration]

 

Actually it is ICG AU53, which is quite different from AU53 of NGC and PCGS I guess, and how can the grader at ICG miss the obvious dark repair spot?? It should not even give any numeric grade. I feel so sorry with ICG, will stick with NGC, PCGS, ANACS in the future.

[James_OldeTowne]

Is it a genuine coin/slab??

[Maocheng-migration]

I think the slab is genuine, the coin is also genuine just plugged repaired, so disappointed with ICG, how can they let those obviously repaired coin into the slab, the NGC/PCGS/ANACS AU53 are mostly shinning and almost mint state from amature's eye, this one is plugged repaired, cleaned, XF if not VF state, and given AU53 by ICG, I feel that company should seriously think about their standard if they still want to be in the game.

[michael]

I think the slab is genuine, the coin is also genuine just plugged repaired, so disappointed with ICG, how can they let those obviously repaired coin into the slab, the NGC/PCGS/ANACS AU53 are mostly shinning and almost mint state from amature's eye, this one is plugged repaired, cleaned, XF if not VF state, and given AU53 by ICG, I feel that company should seriously think about their standard if they still want to be in the game.

 

agreed and i am so sorry for this happening to you my friend

 

i happen to agree with you i would now ONLY purchase foreign coins in ngc pcgs slabs

 

 

and verify to make sure the slab is actually from ngc or pcgs and not a knock off from china

 

 

also i think currently ngc leads the way in slabbing foreign coins

with more market acceptance hence more market demand

 

 

[James_OldeTowne]

I think the slab is genuine, the coin is also genuine just plugged repaired, so disappointed with ICG, how can they let those obviously repaired coin into the slab, the NGC/PCGS/ANACS AU53 are mostly shinning and almost mint state from amature's eye, this one is plugged repaired, cleaned, XF if not VF state, and given AU53 by ICG, I feel that company should seriously think about their standard if they still want to be in the game.

It does not look plugged to me. If the coin is genuine, then by international standards, I'd say "extremely fine". It doesn't look near-mint, as the ICG grade would suggest.