SGBH Pre-Long Beach Elite Coin Auction

Glossy dark bluish steel brown with frosty luster in the fields and protected areas. There are some faint hairline scratches on the cheek, a shallow

Frosty light steel brown and tan with slightly darker steel brown toning on the obverse highpoints. The surfaces are satiny and covered with fine car

Sharpness near mint state with traces of extremely fine roughness in a few places, including around star 2, at AM, and around ICA. Microscopic traces

Lustrous reddish steel brown with underlying very faded mint color showing through on most of the obverse. The reverse is frosty bluish steel brown wi

Glossy chocolate brown with lots of frosty tan and light brown toning in the fields and protected areas, especially on the reverse. A small spot of d

Ten points sharper with uniform very light roughness under a rather glossy dark olive patina. No verdigris, just a few trivial marks, including a fai

Sharpness VF25 with too many light nicks for the higher grade, including a diagonal nick under the left side of star 7 and another over the E in CENT.

Sharpness VG8 or slightly better with a half dozen pitmarks on the obverse, the largest of these in the field off the tip of the nose. There are spec

Nice glossy chocolate brown with frosty lighter brown toning in protected areas. Smooth and attractive, just a few minor contact marks from choice, i

Sharpness EF45 or slightly better but there are a half dozen fine pinscratches on the reverse, mostly inside the wreath but two of them extend out to