I know the chances are very limited but hypothetically anything is possible under the right circumstance. How many if any in this group have ever found a coin mint state 67 or higher in circulation? If you have and have pictures please post them.
My wife has a MRI appointment . But I have lots of bulk graded by Pcgs, Presidential Dollars . I found them and had them graded to . I'll post some images when I get back ..
Wow, ms67 is tough even with uncirculated bank rolls. Meow once in a while will find a coin that might be ms66, but ms67????? Almost not possible Meow would think.
Meow has bought a few ms67 quarters on fleabay. Under close inspection, they are about as flawless as one could expect from a handled coin. Meow thinks a circulated ms67 is about a tough as a ms69+ out of a mint set.
I strongly suspect that it's highly unlikely that I would ever find a coin (or currency) in circulation that I'd submit for grading. In fact I rarely get coins in change from daily transactions. Most of my purchases are done by credit card.
Oh, Meow remembers getting a NGC ms68 quarter (Ohio state??) for a low price. Meow thinks modern graded coins are going down in value at a steady rate. As more high grade coins are slabbed every day. Meow bought a 2010 grand canyon quarter in MS67 for less than $20. A year ago, that coin was in the $60-75 range.
It's not that unusual to get very high grade coins in circulation. I used to set aside every Gem I found during the year in circulation in an dollar tube. Most years I'd get 20 to 30 coins of various denominations. Only about 2% of them would probably grade MS-67 or higher. Bear in mind though that I search penny, dime, and quarter rolls and a lot of them came mixed in rolls with circulated coins. Also when I received nice new coin from a cash register I'd often ask for change for a few dollars in nice shiny coin. Most people would receive only a couple Gems a year and a lower percentage would be MS-67. I searched a lot of BU rolls over the years and for the main part you'll find the really high grades only in mint sets.
So your saying there is no way you can get a MS coin in circulation? That is hard to believe since one of my 99 wide am coins was guessed to be ms 62 or higher by one of the anacs guys at the Cincinnati coin show last year and it was found in circulation. I know that it's possible they were not the ones that grade coins but I would think they would have a good idea how to grade. As I said it would be a very slight possibility to find a high grade coin in change but there is a chance that someone raided papaws coin collection spent it to get a ice cream and the next person put it their collection.
It’s possible. I’ve seen plenty of times when a cashier opened a brand new bank roll and gave me change in shiny new coins. I just threw them in the bucket of change or spent them as I collect early coins and the only thing I’ll pull out is silver or wheat cents or non presidential coins. Which I get rarely but I can see that brand new coins grading high if they were properly handled or from original rolls
As a youngster I lived at my neighborhood coin shack soaking in all the shopkeeper would say. I often heard him say that an Uncirculated coin was like being pregnant. Either it is or it isn’t. That was well before we had TPG’s and the scrutiny we now subject our standards to. These days yes I think you could pluck an MS67 from the wild.
No, I said an uncirculated coin was a coin with no sign of wear. Taken from a new roll, "circulated" and put in someone's pocket and then left lying on a dresser top for the next 50 years, it is still uncirculated if it... shows no signs of wear ...
I did but I spent it. I got it at the McDonald's drive-thru in change. It was a 2018 cent when they first started circulating here.
If you get a box of uncirculated cents from the bank, then what's the probability that you'll get an MS-67 or higher? One of them will probably be it, right?
