Superior Pre-Long Beach Elite Coin Auction

Glossy steel brown with chocolate brown toning covering the protected areas. Smooth and attractive for the grade, only trivial nicks, none notable.

Nice glossy medium brown and chocolate. Smooth surfaces with only a few trivial marks, including a dull nick on the rim above the O in OF. MDS.<...

Glossy medium brown and chocolate with traces of frosty lighter brown toning in protected areas of the reverse. Smooth and quite nice for the grade,

Sharpness near VG10 but covered with very fine hairlines as if it had been stroked with a stiff brush on both sides. No roughness or other defects.

Glossy chocolate brown with slightly lighter chocolate brown toning on the highpoints. Smooth surfaces, a small dig in the field under the chin is th

Slightly glossy dark chocolate and olive brown with lighter steel brown highpoints. The surfaces appear smooth but a glass reveals extremely fine rou

Glossy chocolate brown with darker chocolate toning in protected areas. No corrosion or marks other than a tiny pinprick close under the bust tip. M

Nice glossy steel brown and chocolate. No marks or verdigris. The surfaces are smooth except for extremely fine roughness covering the reverse field

Sharpness close to F15 but there is extremely fine roughness under the mostly glossy dark chocolate brown patina. The highpoints are a lighter shade

Glossy steel brown with chocolate brown toning covering the protected areas. No roughness, only light contact marks, including a dull rim nick above

Ten points sharper but there is a thin splash of fine reddish corrosion along the bottom edge of the bust, another small one at the top of star 3, and

Glossy medium brown and chocolate. No marks, only some very light roughness in the field above the head due to planchet flaking in that area. The da

Glossy chocolate brown. Smooth surfaces and only a few light contact marks, including a couple faint hairline scratches across the portrait and a dul

A mint error with double struck reverse. Weak hair definition suggests a slightly lower grade on the obverse. Medium to deep brown patina. (#1570)

Five points sharper with a rim bruise at star 1, another at star 11, and a third at IT in UNITED. Otherwise the surfaces are smooth and very attracti

Glossy olive brown with steel brown highpoints. The surfaces appear to be nice and smooth, but there is uniform microscopic roughness under the gloss

Glossy steel brown with darker chocolate toning in protected areas. No corrosion or verdigris. Sharpness very slightly better but there is a small p

Glossy chocolate brown with lighter brown highpoints. Smooth surfaces, choice except for a small spot of carbon in the field off the chin an a light

Slightly sharper with too many small nicks for the higher grade. None of the marks is noteworthy, and the glossy chocolate brown patina gives this ce

Cleaned and retoned glossy dark chocolate with light brown highpoints. The cleaning was done in an acid solution which lightly etched the surfaces, a