Bday gift opinions 0

[Truly Clean]

Hi all   My dad has a small circulated collection of flying eagle cent, large cent, half cent, two cent, three cent, half dime, etc. But no twenty cent so I got this for a birthday present for him.  I struggle with grading, especially circulated.  I was thinking XF, possibly AU50?  Or am I being optimistic?  For what it's worth I paid 250.

 

[RonnieR131]

My two photograde cheat sheets didn't include the twenty cent piece, but I stared at coins closely with the same obverse and reverse features so long that I need a nap. I'm seeing 35 to 40, but, the weak strike issue is one where I think they have a slight forgiveness on grading, so I think your right, maybe XF45. I wouldn't even give my newbie opinion, but I put a full hour into it, so there it is. The REAL evaluators will follow shortly. PS.. Take care of that 1880 S lady!

[Truly Clean]

4 hours ago, ronnie stein said:

My two photograde cheat sheets didn't include the twenty cent piece, but I stared at coins closely with the same obverse and reverse features so long that I need a nap. I'm seeing 35 to 40, but, the weak strike issue is one where I think they have a slight forgiveness on grading, so I think your right, maybe XF45. I wouldn't even give my newbie opinion, but I put a full hour into it, so there it is. The REAL evaluators will follow shortly. PS.. Take care of that 1880 S lady!

Can you tell me a little more about cheat sheets please?  I'm not familiar.

Thank you for checking it out.

P.S.  hahahaa . I am ;)  Don't be spending an hour checking out MY lady !

[RonnieR131]

It pains me to use this term, but, go to the PGCS home page, -resources,- at the bottom of the page is the photograde option. Pick your coin. I'm glad I could tell about the photo grade, but I'm really not qualified to give a grade opinion yet like I did above. I thought others would've chimed in by now, oh well. You and I together can use our imagination, probably end up MS69 proof by the time we discuss it! Your dad is a lucky man.Later......

[Just Bob]

The pics are a bit small, but I like it as a high VF. Nice coin & nice present

[Truly Clean]

On 5/1/2020 at 5:01 AM, ronnie stein said:

 You and I together can use our imagination, probably end up MS69 proof by the time we discuss it!

I think maybe it IS MS.  These are commonly weak strike and I think it's just very dark toning concealing BU luster.  ;)   Dad was very happy!  Thanks for your help guys