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Grade this 1851 US Half Cent


syzygy

Grade this 1851 US Half Cent  

23 members have voted

  1. 1. What grade?

    • EF45
      1
    • EF40
      6
    • VF35
      7
    • VF20
      7
    • F12
      1
    • VG10
      1


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I gave it a VF20 overall. Details are VF35ish but due to the verdigris (I'm assuming that's what I'm seeing) I'd knock it down a notch.

 

Great coin though. I love the Large Cents.

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  • 1 month later...

I'd say VF -- I'm tempted to go EF but I think that it had an old cleaning that was done incompletely/improperly. The color is wonderful and could be mostly natural. In hand, I'd probably be more apt to go EF, but I like to bounce the light off them at different angles to check the fields for scratches and such.

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WoW, lots of variability on this one. Two people think it has verdigris and one person thinks it has been cleaned. EF40 got the most votes, but someone sees it as a VG10 - a particularly wide variety of opinions within 12 votes.

 

In hand, syzygy, what do you think it is?

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In hand, syzygy, what do you think it is?

 

I think it is a borderline VF35/EF40. It was sold as an EF and the reason I posted it was that it looked borderline to me.

 

Definitely no verdigris and probably not cleaned. On the last point, I have seen lots of old US copper where they are clumpy or crusty around the devices (like this one) and don't take that as a sign of an old cleaning - but I could be wrong :ninja:

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  • 2 weeks later...

I'd go VF30 on that coin. Tough one to grade from a pic. The color looks original yet I see some residue in the protected areas which could be from a cleaning. Overall a nice hunk of copper!

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