PCGS Open Box - Coin Marathon - Huge Group $200 or Less

hey guys it's Ben the coin geek at oldu coin thanks for joining me today we have an open box video to watch together go through get the popcorn out this one's exciting exciting for me because I've got a uh really large group that we sent in on the economy service and I'm excited because we have a whole lot of coins to go through and almost all the coins are going to be less than $200 and many of them less than $100 uh really also although there's only a few types of coins here what we're going to be able to do is compare grades and uh look at surface quality so lots to do here1 1895 v- nickel remember like share subscribe Mr subliminal XF details cleaned cleaned oh boy so um there is some uh truth and lending here this is a little bit accurate you can actually see where it had uh if you look near the devices so that would be the design elements and in the hairline you will see some gkess and so some of that was removed and some of it remains and so what's interesting to me about this coin is that they are technically correct but also it doesn't have what I would consider to be typical cleaning lines okay let's rock and roll here so also just as a side note so you can already know ahead of time all my disappointment here you can see this has the same thing going on um you know I'd sense the co coins in that I thought would mostly just straight grade because a whole lot of these coins are inexpensive and send them in on the slowboat on the uh economy service you know you really need them to straight grade because especially on cheaper coins here's a 1889 VF details cleaned so we get to compare greates I'm going I'm actually just going to keep coins kind of going in order by grade here a little bit as we go through so if you've been looking for some interesting type coins uh something that's less expensive a nice modern slabbed coin recently slabbed coin for your collection then uh these will all be available down in the show notes you just click on the title description there's a pop down thing that you might have to click on a little button that says more and you go for it so 1883 with sense this one is a vf30 so nice looking coin you'll notice on almost any coins you're very fine coin is going to be a coin that has most of the elements of design visible but also will have a ton of wear to it usually no luster usually no luster except except for when PCGS takes my XF 1807 bust half dollar that's Au and calls it VF but that's I'm not I'm not that was like two decades ago all right 1900 the legend of 1900 let's go look at this guy so this this was these coins were all from an album that we got in and it was kind of cool because they had a lot of just like Au coins and these are the type of coins that people usually don't send in in to get certified because well they they just the cost and then the chance that they'll come back details grade instead of straight grade is you know usually not worth the overall risk here but the things we do for you guys au58 on this 1900 nice looking coin overall original luster to it you can see all of the detail all the hairlines are there a little bit of spot there on the one of the O's in 1900 I guess those would be zeros not just O's here's an 1883 no sense you know what's really funny like there's coins that so 1883 they made with sense and without sense there's a whole racketeer story and we'll get into some other time but uh they made them two ways with sense and without sense and even though I've been doing this forever I always get those two coins mixed up just a guilty admission here the uh the withd sense is the rare one I'm going to say it now and then you can correct me later another au58 so these were all in one album and we had a lot of fun picking them out and I did try to pull out coins that I thought looked cleaned so this coin actually looks cleaned like the other two that were called cleaned it didn't look cleaned and now I'm looking at the surface quality here it's a little bright aail is genuine I would put this at a lower Au versus those other coins because you can see it's got luster to it but it feels like there's a lot more of a luster break on that coin some of those surface anomalies you see like the discoloration is just going to be from long-term storage something that the coin got in contact with over time 1912 this is actually the Philadelphia version 1912 interestingly enough this actually has a lot of the same stuff going on the other coins did you know these copper nickel coins it's got a little bit of the little bit of some residue on there a little bit of the striping but you know doesn't have that high high polished look I wouldn't have called it a high polished look but the doesn't have the same level of brightness that this coin on the left did but uh pretty similar but this one they straight graded au55 I'm going to put my 58s my 55s like I said we we'll put together a grade set here real quick real quick 1903 three once again really fully lustrous and one of the things we're going to see when we look at the grades of these overall because we'll take one more quick look when we're done is you're going to find that the reason that CAC Works in theory and in practice well in the I'm going to go with in theory in practice has probably more to do with the the people who do it but in theory is because when you compare all these AU 58s you're going to find some coins that are more eye appealing than others and that is really the premise so in 1912 there was actually three mints fired up these v- nickel right before the end of the v- nickel series The Philadelphia was the one that made almost all of the v- nickels and then you have the Denver Mint and San Francisco mint the San Francisco mint is scarce to rare in the Denver Min you see pretty frequently but much less frequently than the filament and also once you get a little bit of some grade to the coin so you see a lot of 1912s that are going to be just a low grade good VG but um the nicer grades you start to see VFS Etc not as much so here we got this is fun because I got a vf20 and a 30 I'm going to put aside some some of my clean coins I will hold on to my petty jealousy but I will get away for my clean coins here and we're going to go next up 1896 once again here's another coin that has a nice Au look to it overall we'll take a close look to it add it look to it a this guy the funny thing is this guy looks like he needs to be cleaned and yet he got he got the cleaned label already you know if you clean this you didn't do a good job I'm just saying like there's a little bit of stuff here that needs to come off so once again au but of course not as lustrous as those other Aus were little more flat I'm going to put that over with the cleaned pile here just like every other coin is coming back cleaned which is not not Bueno my friends 1905 here's a nice looking Au coin once again you see the the sharpness of the luster on there and you see a lot of little bit of little bit of wear to it I mean a little bit of what I would call breaks in the ler on this coin this one intrigues me here because that's a 58 and if I can be so bold I would have maybe put that in the 55 pile leading the jury here 1893 ironically here ironic irony is not the word to use you think for a guy who listens to Weird Al i' know the difference between irony and coincidence so this coin here another one that has uh they called a questionable surface quality here with the cleaning you can see some stuff was removed here so this one they said XF details clean I'm going to put that in my details pile well I mean with all these coins that are coming back details guys so what I'm going to have to do because I'm a communist I'm going to have to charge you guys who get the straight graded coins extra to pay for the guys at the low end who don't get any so we'll have fun with that so this guy this one's really interesting a couple little spots on the coin you know you got a little bit of some leftover stuff there on the surface of the coin 1891 this one they graded au55 once again you've got really nice luster this is a good example of just how the luster breaks when it goes through that area you see that open surface area there doesn't have that same brightness to it we'll do that we're doing the grading thing while we're looking at the coins that and if you're wondering if any of these are going to come back mint State you'll just have to stay tuned in 1904 I wouldn't have been offended if they would have you know called this coin mint State just like a 61 I think I think we'll compare all the 58s here in a moment I'm getting near the end of box one here we've got a couple of boxes and we're going to switch once we get to the next box we actually switch to a different coin entirely so once again now we've got we're going to have a bunch of au 58s to look at and compare and so when you're out coin shopping this is kind of what you do when you've got coins especially if it's not a rare date so there's certain things that you're hunting and pecking for and you're trying to find that you just know you might not see but once once every five or six years that's very different than most of what we do when we collect most of what we do when we collect is if you're trying to fill a slot if you're trying to find a spot U put a coin together uh you know a group of coins together this is what it's like to kind of pick through coins and understand surface quality I appeal and all those things and you know most of these coins are coins that you can see in multiples and so you can start to understand what you're looking for when you're either trying to cherry pick or if you're trying to just find something that is a nicer quality for the for the grade so we got a ton of a 58s here I'm not going to have a full grade set a lot of the coins were nicer 1899 I am a little intrigued at points on the things that they chose to call cleaned and the things they chose to not call cleaned and then the coins that I think probably need to be cleaned you know like I said old album you know you see a lot of the little green stuff on here is from that previous previous holders au53 once again you can see luster with almost nowhere so that usually get you an a if you get some uh diminished luster and noticeable where usually in X XF land so this one's kind of borderline here this is you can start to see the luster is breaking up quite a bit on this coin here and this one they called an au50 on that 1890 almost all of these coins here are going to be uh less than you know between 50 and 150 something like that here's one more with sense oh this is okay this is a good coin I'm glad that I'm glad that this coin's in here so this one we start to finally see a coin that has you know you have just little bit of signs of uh luster but the luster is like mostly gone and then you start to see where where so like all of the all of the hairline areas got really flat all of a sudden the back of the coin the reverse is a little bit harder to tell because there's not really defined fine defined elements on v- nickel you know you have the leaves and flowers to look at but those are pretty small surface areas it's easiest to kind of look in look at that hairline and start to see the flatness so this is nice a vf35 is a fun grade to kind of look at just a just a touch a luster left on that coin but mostly mostly just that if someone didn't know how to grade they might say oh look there's no wear on that coin right what if they just glanced at it like that so kind of fun I think I've got one more one more vi vi v nickel 1892 this one has a cool look to it actually for so you can see it's got a lot more it's got the disruption in the fields so pretending you're not collecting dates like just pretending you're collecting by grade that's when you kind of think about the comparison here we're about to make on these coins so this 1892 actually has really high luster to it I think it's got a fun look to it overall um it has a brightness to it so au55 all right I'm just going to grab me some let's look at uh the differences here as we went from that au50 to the au53 three I think this au55 is one that I would probably it looks so much nicer than the Au 55s that's that kind of scuffy look doesn't bother me that almost looks like it just had contact with with like brown paper like the darkness over the cheek but the luster is really bright so let me see I think I had another 55 in here yeah dramatically different 55s here we go I've got three 55s to look at and so when I'm talking about cherry picking or not cherry picking when we're talking about just picking a coin and if you're talking about the theory of stickering coins and you saw these three coins and you just said you know which of these three coins would you pick out of the group is there one and for me the answer is fairly obvious I mean I've already led the jury here but like this 92 is just a really Superior looking coin over these two and same thing happens when we look at the 50 58s I mean like I said there's at least one 58 in here that I think you know so like to me a 58 I like it if you can see kind of like there's a little bit of wear then it's oh that's the OB obvious 58 right like the one on the left you know you can play we can play March Madness here and just keep picking through them and say okay which coin appears to have wear and which coin appears to maybe not have wear and you just kind of head-to-head battle these guys all the way through till you find one that you say you know that coin could be new if I had it you know if I if I send it in again maybe I'd get a 61 out of it that's kind of what you're looking at when you're looking through coins like this I'm I'm a fan I'm a fan of this uh 04 over here that's a pretty nice looking coin so let's go on we got a whole another group of coins to look at here let's keep rocking and rolling unless you need to take a water break all right next up I have a ton of slqs same thing standing liberty quarters we had an album come in and most of your standing liberty quarters in this set were kind of like that nice high Au is kind of thing and and so there were a couple that were obviously clean that I left out but we're going to have fun here because you know what some results you're going to look like for me because you guys have been around long enough au53 on that 30s once again standing liberty quarters possibly one of the prettiest coins that uh that the mint ever made uh so here we go here's a coin that has a lot of originality that actually is really luster kind of over the whole surface the high points on these coins are very different than what you'd run into on some other coins you know you've got that entire the entire front part like if you drew a line right here you know that's very much so a high point including a point on the shield here this knee also so you have a lot of different high points on the coin and uh they're going to get where first and so you can see like top of the shield and then the head's always difficult because sometimes the heads are that on an uncirculated coin so they can be really really tricky but also this coin has a I think this coin has a lot of luster for an xf40 but once again so the luster breaks the luster breaks and disappears a little bit more easily on the eagle because if you think about it you know this whole B the whole Eagle side is domed you know that's just kind of has a lot of open areas is what I'm actually trying to say on the obverse the walls actually are somewhat protected which sounds strange because they're huge open areas but also the rim and the stars and the body kind of protect those fields so you actually have a look of luster throughout the Open Fields here here here and here whereas the back area here because everything is kind of down in a dish that everything kind of gets a wear to it all right Rock and roll and what's also fun here we got a 29s once again a lot a lot of luster left on this coin and then you've got a touch of wear on the high points you know you're supposed to grade a coin using both sides and it's really important on a lot of coins cuz their design elements are so different from one coin to the next from one side to the next to help you grade so I can't tell you how many times I look at a coin like this and just say like wow that's you know that might be possibly uncirculated then I look at the back I'm like oh yeah that has like 50% of the luster left right like it's definitely it's definitely traveled the universe so you know it's got that whole area in there is devoid of full luster and so comparing it to this coin here what I'm talking about is that that area here is what I'm looking at where you'll see it the white travel and it stays white instead of staying dark whereas on the coin on the left it doesn't have that bright white pop it stays that little bit of a darker even though it's a nice illumination au50 we got a 40 a 50 and a 53 let's let's get a whole set here shall we 19 29d once again and you can see how the luster gets a little brighter and brighter as the coin goes up in grade usually not always of course depends on the elements it was around but also now if we're paying attention to how the luster flows on this coin you can see like well the luster breaks on there are almost non-existent versus this coin you see the difference and once again once you get usually if you get like that 45 degree angle to the light and you see that it goes dark that's usually breaks and luster like the coin on the left stays very very white at those angles not Berry White different gu so here's a 55 53 boy I'm I'm getting really close to an actual grade set here 1929 so most of your standing liberty quarter series from the mid mid 20s on up like 25ish on up pretty doable and uncirculated grades or almost uncirculated grades for the average collector you know the earlier coins you know watch out I mean you're going to you're going to hit some real doozies especially in higher grade a pretty little bit of toning on this coin here on the Le hand side kind of nice au55 and if you want to do a type set you know you know what would really be challenging is I you know I think that they started doing doing that what they call an Everyman set so the registry sets now they started doing sets where it's like oh you have to collect 8 58s you know you can't collect uncirculated coins it's kind of an interesting concept also don't let the man tell you what to do collect what you want that's what's great about coin collecting collect whatever you want 1928 D au55 so a lot of a lot of commodate standing liberty quarters like this are going to be that 100 to 100 and a half range you know ni Unk coins are usually I think post you know 175 to 2 and a quarter just kind of depends 1927 so one of the one of the big diff big uh exceptions to that rule about you know the mid 20s and up Ian really the 27 is known to have that 27s that's the tough guy I haven't told you guys where the mint mark is on these coins well some of you most of you probably already know but the mint mark is right there there's the D next to the first star on the left yep the first star on the left I think you turn left at the first star on the left 1926 Philly so this guy they called XF details so they thought this coin was a little bright I think that I may protest too much we're going to leave leave that one alone here so this one's kind of wild so this one I'm going to have to wrap machine damage Unk detail I mean that's like so we got one that actually had uncirculated detail to it finally but we don't want to see the word detail we want to see you know just a nice ms61 type Co 2 three give me something give me something good guys I don't think I mentioned this yet but these you know we sent these on the economy service but they were only gone for like a month there's actually a pretty pretty quick turnaround all all around 1924 here's another coin that has you can see how the luster is inhibited compared to the other coins and there is wear of parent and also XF details you know this one I would uh you know once again I think I think that one yeah I don't know I'm just maybe I won't complain but I don't know that I would have detailed graded there's there's actually quite a few here in a row that I don't know that I would have detail graded and I know some of you guys well how would I put this are kind of Puritans when it comes to surface quality I I happen to think there's like a really really broad range of surface quality that a coin will see in a very natural state that shouldn't be considered cleaning this coin actually if anything if anything this coin has PVC on it you see how it turns white right there the discoloration there at that angle that's PVC this coin needs to be cleaned it needs conservation and I can guarantee you that this coin wasn't cleaned you you know for a long long long time see all this toning is very original from the album and I really liked that coin I still like the coin I didn't I didn't use mean to use the past T poor coin it's going to be sad Au details on that guy so I got a whole mad run of coins here that they just decided to detail grade uh and so for me for when you know as long as I'm talking about surface quality and I'm talking about cleaning versus not cleaning like usually I want to see something that looks uh like there's no luster relative to the amount of detail left so like luster has been wiped and removed in a way that is very obvious or I want to see some type of hairlines or or generally a surface that's just too too too bright you know XF details on this 18s and really really I you know I don't know I didn't I didn't see it I didn't see it what do you got here 55s all the way across well here we go here we go with our first 58 I think I think we had 55s across the board so far on our higher grade ones super slider and that's just a term that people will use sometimes for a coin that looks new but we'll probably always be a 58 unless you guys go ahead and buy this from me and then you you know you treat it conserve it use the right words here and then it comes back on just make sure you brag about it in your story T tag me on Instagram after you make money on the coins please thank you 1918 so the earlier versions there's actually a few different versions of these guys as far as some design element changes and of course the famous ones there is going to be the 1917 they have two different types and they switch to 1918 there's a couple other smaller design element changes that were done later in the series which are all escaping my brain right now but uh au53 that's a cool coin the early years are just really neat I mean I really like even though that's not the type the type one the early years just have a cool look to them overall there's something about the 20s US history in the 20s it's kind of like it's funny because people just talk about flapper dresses and Roaring 20s and The Great Gatsby but really outside of outside of that the 20s seem to be like an unknown part of American History there's a lot going on that was not in Chicago New York heaven forbid uh 1920 okay like I'm I'm sorry like that just w w I'm going to I'm just going to put that in the no column I don't know like that that coin that one's very nice I wouldn't have called that one cleaned so here's the type one of course famously for having you know an exposed chest also you know the the details on these coins this is 17s type one had uh you know the date was the highest point on the coin it wasn't the first time us men had already been doing that they did that with the 1913 nickel so you think they would have learned by then so this one's interesting because you got the nice au50 straight grade on it which is what that 1920 should have had on it is a 1917 type one really fully lustrous oh this is kind of cool this is okay so this one's actually coming back 858 full head so the full head designation is when you can see uh well a full head all of the head details and there's actually different head designs on the different years so what designates a full head it varies and also the guys who really specialize in this they talk about um like different layers of full head even the coin that uh qualifies as a full head and then there's like you know something that's more of a superior full head that they uh will designate based on which specific lines you can see or not see on a coin neat looking piece got a couple 58s in here and so this next coin is fun because this one actually you've got a little bit more break in the luster action here and so this one's cool because it's going to be graded you can see that it doesn't have quite the same full ler as the other coin does a 55 full head I think I'm trying to think about the lowest graded full head coin you can get and I I don't know if it's a 45 or a 50 but I'm pretty sure it's somewhere in there it might be an au50 I don't know if you can get an XF you quarter guys will correct me I'm not giving you a command I just know how the world works all right next up hey speaking of the Waring 20s 1921 almost every 1921 Mercury Dime I ever get is just in good condition this one was kind of cool cuz it was actually a little bit nicer you have some separation on the lines on the fasis that's the big Warhammer war axe down here and I got a 21 and then we've got ourselves a 21d we'll talk a little bit again about surface quality and what they see and what they like and what they don't like and you can tell me what you like and don't like so this guy here kind of a similar looking coin so the 21d they called cleaned and the 21 they straight graded at the fine 12 and you can see a little bit of the difference in quality between you know there's a little bit more brightness on the 21d here on the left compared to a little bit less on the 21 on the right also you know for me I'm not so sure it falls into the category of punishment but you know say mate all right we got a few more coins to go through as we switch through um for some reason I sent it an 86s I don't know how that got in there 86s is a better date also so I got one Morgan to show to you you guys by now going to be guessing the grades here we've got mostly mostly nowhere half the lusters there half of it's gone au50 goodlooking coin and oh I did I sent in two Morgans all right so this 21 I I just kind of liked it had a kind of fun you know I liked a little bit sometimes that little crispy burnt Edge Look had a fun look to it overall only came back at 63 three I like I kind of like that look the overall surface qualities like the main surface quality is lovely lovely lovely a little bit of a hit there and then I think you just have a little bit too much scuff on the cheek like that that angle so you can see kind of those little bit of lines at a front look though so this is actually if you get it at the angle that blurs out the lines which is what happens when you buy stuff on eBay then you can see that this coin actually has the rest of the surface quality looks like a 65 but of course the technical grade is correct with those kind of those are those actually look like almost slide marks so if they were in a certain type of holder you might get a slide mark on a coin all right last two coins promise and then you can go back to your life coins that I've actually had a pretty decent job of um getting back the grades that I anticipate so I don't know if I want to say that uh I know how to grade because that would we don't want to say those words uh so on Franklin's though of all the series I think if you look back over the years they're the one series that when I send a coin in it kind of comes back how I think it will you know Washington quarters it's always a grade lower but I seem to be able to get 65 full Bell line on this 53d I seem to get the grades that I kind of anticipate on those for the most part now this may be exception here because this 54 San Francisco meant you know this thing is like a tick away from a six like that little Mark in front of Benny boy that field there's a mark there's a little spot and then there's a like a Fang Mark right there there must have that 55 uh dracular coin must have bit him but these guys here this one just a tick away from a 66 and the tricky part here on this one I think where I was just a little bit off I that's not a full Bell line not a full Bell line I think I was just going for the 66 on this ms65 just a lovely looking coin though just a couple ticks away from being a 66 not a full Bell line the 53s is really rare the 54s not as rare but that's another video for another day all right guys thanks for joining me for the coin Marathon here um look forward to you guys being able to add a bunch of new coins to your collection thanks so much for watching today I'm Ben the coin geek you can subscribe by clicking on the owl button in the corner and watch more videos on the right side of the screen thanks

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