This is a beautiful coin that my dad recently purchased. It is a 1925-D $2.5 in the OGH. I just wanted to see what everyone thinks of the coin and the grade that they might assign to it. I'll post the assign grade after a few people put their input in or if someone guesses correctly. -Kyle
After looking at the coin a little more, It's hard to tell because I need a more infocus picture, but are these contact marks?
Here is the coin under different lighting, and thanks for the help Detecto, it's greatly appreciated.
I'm not seeing anything that wouldn't warrant a MS grade, but I could be wrong. I suck at grading gold.
It's so hard to tell from the images if it has contact marks. It does appear to have great luster. The cheek is super clean as well. Might be time for a re-grade!
I agree with the grade I wouldn't bother sending it in to CAC I'm sure they will agree. Au is au and that's what I see here.
Grading an incuse design is much different than regular coinage. The fields are the first place that circulation would show. If the fields are void of a full mint cartwheel, it is an AU or less. It is very difficult to grade incuse designs from an image because of this. I can see a break in luster on the reverse though, so I agree with AU-58. Contact marks have no bearing on grades less than MS-60, but they detract from the overall eye appeal of the coin reducing the collector appeal and value. Your coin has very few minor contact marks and would be considered a premium example of an AU-58. I always thought that the grade of AU-59 should be applied to coins that exhibit these characteristics. Lovely coin.
Common or not, I see little downside in sending to NJ as long as its solid for the grade and was a piggyback submission. Older holdered 58's with a bean sell well, so the added liquidity would be worth the price of admission. Personally, other than possibly CAC, I would not worry about it and just leave and enjoy as-is. This is a type where there are plenty of arguably AU coins residing in MS holders anyways.
