I can't make the grade.

Don't be alarmed, I just can't grade MS coins with consistency.

I submitted a group of classic commemorative halfs to ICG several years ago
and ICGs grades were pretty much 2 points less than the grade I gave the
coins.

I have piggybacked some submissions with another rcc'er and received the
grades I pretty much anticipated.

I submitted 4 coins to PCGS a year ago and received pretty much the grades I
expected.

I just recently submitted six WL halfs to PCGS and for 5 of the six I was
again a 2 point overgrader.

For those who would like to take a look at my images and read my comments,
click the link below. It is 566 kb and shows the six walker submissions and
one PCGS graded coin that I used to determine what coins would likely pay to
submit. All seven coins were taken with the same settings; Nikon Coolpix
5200, under two candescent lamps, and images were not edited other than
sizing and cropping. The link;


http://showcase.netins.net/web/bills...ns/walkers.JPG

Perhaps this will be of some help to those who have coins they are
considering submitting. Perhaps some of you might have enlightening
observations, e.g.; "Thatdamn Krummel is a 2 point overgrader"

Bill.

On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 15:10:26 -0600, "Bill Krummel"
wrote:

I just recently submitted six WL halfs to PCGS and for 5 of the six I was
again a 2 point overgrader.

For those who would like to take a look at my images and read my comments,
click the link below.

I've never been able to grade a Walker from a picture -- but PCGS has
been very tough on late date Walkers for a while. In particular, they
seem to be downgrading for strike weakness and subdued lustre.

To see if your expectations were realistic, take a quick look at
Liberty's right hand on the obverse and the Eagle's breast on the
reverse from a slight angle.

--
Michael Benveniste --
Spam and UCE professionally evaluated for $419. Use this email
address only to submit mail for evaluation.