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    Thats What it Takes

    By KD,

    This is a follow up to my last entry called What does it Take?
    Talking about submissions and getting a Cameo Designation.And a surprise from an ebay purchase I did not even want.Well its been a while since my last entry and I thought I would follow up on the next set of coins I sent in for grading. I think I did a little better picking out the good ones or maybe I just had more good ones to pick from. Here are the results:LineItem Year Mint Mark Variety/Pedigree Denom. Grade001 1961 10C PF 69* CAMEO 002 1961 50C PF 67* CAMEO 003 1962 50C PF 67 004 1962 25C PF 67 005 1962 25C PF 68 CAMEO 006 1955 25C PF 66 CAMEO These are from sets that I used my toning theory on once again. May be luck? May be science? It seemed to work for this batch.The last batch I turned up zero cameos out of five coins two of which I thought were definitely cameos. This time 3 out of 5. I think I am starting to see what they look for and how they look for it.I have come to the realization that you just have to look at a whole lot of coins before you are able to pick them out for sure. The more you look at the easier it gets. A couple of weeks I was speeding through some ebay auctions for 50's Proof sets. I put some low ball bids on 1951's and 1952's. I forgot all about them and I see a pay for this in my email. It was a 1952 proof set in a capitol plastic holder for $160. It looked pretty rough from the pictures and I really did not want it. I bid on it so I had to pay for it.Five days latter it shows up at my door. I get it out of the envelope and It looks better than the pictures but nothing special. I get to doing other things and later that evening I pick that set up to look closer at it and low and behold the quarter is a superbird with hand engraved tail feathers. Wow that was pretty dam good for a set I did not even want. I'm going to send it in for grading next week we'll see how it does. I think it's a 66 but I am hoping for a 67. I will post the grade when it comes back.KayDee
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    What Does It Take ?

    By KD,

    I have not received my coins back yet from being graded but I checked the website and boy what a disappointment!
    I thought I had figured out a secret to looking at proof sets still in the mint plastic and depending on the way they were toning I was sure to get a cameo or two. I bought four different early 60s proof sets and a 1955 proof set using my theory on four different occasions from four different dealers and found that I was getting cameos every time they were toned in this way. Mainly the 50c & 25c pieces were the coins that stood out as phenomenal cameos. I sent one complete 1962 set in with some other coins to be graded. I thought I had at least two maybe three cameos in that set. The half definitely, the dime and the quarter almost certainly. None came back cameo.
    I guess I don't know what a cameo is suppose to look like. I thought I did, since I have been collecting coins for almost fifty years. I am now second guessing my ability to judge and grade coins. Or could it be that I was seeing things that I wanted to see that were not really there? Or could it be that I sent the coins in at the Economy Tier and that was to low to get a cameo designation even though non of them would have topped $300.
    I am not sure. I would like to get some other opinions on this topic. Think I'll go to the BB's and see if I am alone on this subject or if others have had this experience also.
    When I do get the first batch back I think I will try my hand at a little coin photography, see if I can get some decent pictures and post them for others to judge and comment on good or bad.
    I sent several coins from the other sets I bought using my theory the beginning of this week. Hope I did not waste my money again.
    One of those, a 1955 proof quarter, that I thought was an absolutely stunning example of a 67 Cameo and I was leaning more toward a 67 Ultra Cameo.... we will see what happens in a week or two.
    signing off for now,
    KD
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