Grading of the saddle ridge hoard

[kieser sousa/rip]

Has anyone else been wondering why these coins were not graded "environmental damaged" ?

 

[Frankn]

1- Gold does not degrade in the ground, much less in a container.
2- The rarer the coin the less the grading counts.
Example: Say you found one of those 8 sided, $50 gold coins. It would be the only one in existence. No matter what the grading, you could practally name your own sale price. Frank...

 

[kieser sousa/rip]

Gold may not degrade in the ground but it will at the least have microscopic scratch's.This is one thing that PGCS is supposed to judge there grade from.The coins may have been in containers but they had rotted away letting in dirt and gravel.A rare coin with scratch's isent going to be as valuable as an undamaged coin...unless maybe it is one of a kind.

 

[Rawhide]

They guy has spent the last year cleaning the coins by hand till his fingers bleed. At this point grading would probably devalue the coins.

 

[kieser sousa/rip]

They guy has spent the last year cleaning the coins by hand till his fingers bleed. At this point grading would probably devalue the coins.

They've been graded by PGCS