Problem free? Or keep searching?

I was looking for Seated Halves on Ebay to use as pocket pieces (ditched the Morgan thing) and found this '53-O. Is it problem free? It's like $19 if that helps.

 

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Looks original to me. For $19 I might bite.

 

Whoops, forgot the reverse.

 

Go for it........

 

The reason I want a problem-free example is because one day it might end up in a PCGS PO-01 slab.

 

Me thinks you may have a shot at it........

 

Pocket piece is one of the ways to get a coin back to problem free though. A cleaned XF is a problem free PO1 assuming no one took a chunk out of it or holed it ect.

That coin looks like a good fit for your purposes

 

Yep , any problem areas on a coin will wear off if carried long enough . Your's looks pretty much problem free already . Have fun getting it to an PO1 .

 

Lots of detail.
May be a FR-02

 

Considering the coin RN, I would say AG-3.

And question: Can a coin wear down by contact with cloth or does it have to rub against another coin?

 

Cloth can cause wear.......

 

You do realize that these coins, unlike the mentioned Morgan, were workhorses, so one being worn to poor isn't quite the same special achievement, right?

Rub it with your finger long enough and you'll see wear, but that's not the point. If you're going to do this, do it right and treat the coin as originally intended. If you screw around or try to speed the process, you're likely to turn an otherwise honest and respectable coin into essentially scrap.

 

Hope you're patient. I've been carrying a harshly cleaned ASE as a pocket piece for going on three years now, and it's barely showing any wear at all -- and .999 silver is significantly softer than coin silver.

 

Here is my 1867 that is pretty well worn and looks problem free. Think she would get a PO1? (If anyone wants to buy it shoot me a PM, I need some money for college)

 

Go for it!

 

I think I would actually pay a few dollars for a coin graded P-01 details for the pure absurdity.

 

I'm having fun imagining what that would look like.

 

ANACS has a few:
http://coins.ha.com/itm/seated-dime...mintage-43-690-numismedia-ws/a/131445-23231.s

http://coins.ha.com/itm/large-cents...s-0-64-pcgs-population-0-14-/a/131524-25014.s

http://coins.ha.com/itm/early-dimes...on-2-57-mintage-33-040-numis/a/131143-28156.s

 

And not a single one, on remaining meat alone, comes that close to deserving the poor label imo.

 

Agreed way to much detail left