What to do with this trade dollar?

I like that idea way more than the repair. Would look neat in the center of a framed display.

 

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Words of wisdom right there.

 

KSorbo, Thanks for a good chuckle today!.....

 

What to do with the trade dollar?

Here's another scary option (on this Halloween) that you probably hadn't considered:

Just give it to me... no more worries!

Happy Halloween

 

get crummy silver chain put thru hole put around neck

 

Good idea (certainly better idea than trying to fix the hole). The hole not being at k12 would drive me bonkers, though.

 

For those of you saying that 73S is one of the tougher dates.... what do you know that the price guides don't? I don't collect Trade dollars so I will take your word over it, but the price guides indicate that the 73S is a common date, on par with Type prices. In 63-up it looks tough, but in anything less than that it looks like a generic coin.

In this condition, it definitely isn't worth spending the bucks to get it fixed, unless you got it dirt cheap.

 

If you look at sale prices for the 73-s in decent AU condition, they typically run a lot higher than the price guides suggest, due to scarcity. The OP said he is into the coin for 60$, so I don't think he would be sunk by a $75 repair.

 

They're not that tough as a date/mint when grade isn't important, but nowhere near as common as some others. Although most of the original mintage went overseas, the survival rate was enough so that the supply is sufficient to meet present demand, which keeps general prices more in line with more common issues.

 

Until you reach mint state grades. Then the price reflects it's scarcity.

 

Even in au it's a very scarce coin. The majority were shipped to the orient. A lot of those that weren't got damaged or abused as this one has. Even more have been cleaned. Most of the ones even the high grade ones I see at the major auctions have been dipped white or have toning returning after a dip this is a very tough very underrated date. This and the s/cc are the only San Fran trades I lack in my collection. I have yet to see a 73-s I like for sale at a realistic price

 

There's not a big demand for trades by date but there is a denand. And more and more people are catching on to this series

 

It very well may be. But this is a VF with a hole.

 

You can't put money in a coin such as this and hope for much over what it is worth now.

 

Well, one could include the labor costs to apply the hole and value it more.

 

If you sell it for $60, you'll be $75 ahead of having done a repair. You can then justify putting the $135 toward a problem-free coin.

 

How on earth do you grade this one vf? Yes it's holed. But it's minimum xf 45. Pics hard to see good detail tho but I see little wear

 

I guess I'm interpreting the images differently? The obverse appears stronger, and may be EF, but the reverse looks VF to me.

 

I see a bit on the head and a bit on the top of the wings. Nearly none on the breasts and residual luster. I'd call it 45-50 but would need bertter images