Yet Another Guess The Grade--1955/55

[DC Dawg]

Ok, boys and girls, it's time to play our favorite game Guess The Grade!

 

You know how the game is played... I provide the image of a coin and you guess the grade. One problem is that because of a hardware failure, all I have is a good image of the obverse of this coin. But that may be enough to have a bit of fun.

 

So here it is... the King of All Errors... The classic 1955 Double Die Obverse. Beautiful doubling with beautiful details and nicely brown. Probably the most expensive coin in the Lincoln Cent series at equal grade. But now that it has been slabbed by NGC, the question is... What Is The Grade?

 

 

Scott

[robec1347]

Nice DD. I think EF-45.

[Mirrored Morgan]

This on sure is the King of Errors, I have always wanted one in my collection.

 

From your picture I would give it EF-40

 

A very nice Lincoln Scott

[MBA101]

It is giving me vertigo....

[bsshog40]

I guess my book may be a little outdated but from my descriptions, I'm showing about a Fine 12. Hope it graded better!! Very Nice DD

[WoodenJefferson]

Yeah, I'd sure would like to have seen them wheat ears...but that is one nice original skin EF-45.

 

Congrats!

[jesbroken]

i would guess a VF20 without access to reverse. hope it graded higher.

[JRocco]

Looks like a nice honest clean VF coin. My favorite Lincoln.

[MarkFeld]

I must be the loose-goose here, as it looks to me as if it might be a low grade AU.

 

I say that because it appears to have ample luster remaining and certain areas look to have only light wear.

 

Edited to add: I'd feel less uncomfortable in my guess if I could see a reverse image.

[Bruceswar]

Going by the hair... Choice VF 35

[MikeInFL]

Looks like XF 45 to me based upon luster and what I can see of the rims. The portrait of Lincoln (weak strike?) makes it tough for me to judge wear not being particularly adept at Lincoln grading in the first place. I'd sure like to see the reverse to be more sure....Mike

[zrlevin]

I have seen this coin in hand and I think that it is an XF45-AU50

[thebeav]

I would give it a 40......

 

Paul

[123cents]

I'll guess XF-40.

[DC Dawg]

Ok... without my good camera (it's being fixed), I tried using my old Olympus D-100 1.3 megapixel camera to take a picture of the reverse of the coin through the slab. It does take a decent picture, but it's not like my 5.1 megapixel Canon, so the picture is only fair.

 

Let's see if this picture changes some minds:

 

The coin is a nice chocolate brown. The color in the original picture is better than this and the same on both sides.

 

Now... what do you think?

 

Scott

[MarkFeld]

Now... what do you think?

Now, I feel more comfortable having guessed AU.

[MunkyMan95]

50

[DC Dawg]

 

I will post the label Sunday evening!

[cpm9ball]

AAUU5555

 

Chris

[construct]

My first thought was also a 55. I'm fairly shaky on my grading of Lincolns in the EF-AU range.

[ldhair]

I'll go AU-50

[WoodenJefferson]

My original quess was EF-45, but upon seeing the reverse, I up-grade to at least an AU-53 or about another $250 added on.

[DC Dawg]

Sorry for the delay... tonight was "Teach The Puppy" Night. We finally convinced him to stay in his crate, so we're very happy!!

 

Anyway, Chris was the closest to the NGC assigned grade. Here's the full slab:

 

 

Very sweet!!

 

Or, to put it in WoodenJefferson's terms: about $1,900!!

 

Scott