hone your grading skills -- seated half dollar

Here's another new purchase. Please guess the grade that NGC assigned to the coin:






Here's a shot showing the prooflike surfaces and color a bit better:



Comments on the coin (both good and bad) are most welcomed.

Have fun...Mike

 

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Very nice coin with great toning and original surfaces! It is hard to make out luster though. My amateur vote is AU-55.

John

 

What a beautiful well struck coin , great color . My 1st impression was AU , but after looking harder , from the picture I' say MS-60 -61 .
rzage

 

Very nice! I would say MS 63.

Lou

 

I'd say MS60 for that one but I'm not an expert with these at all. I think it may also have been lightly cleaned a long time ago...but that doesn't affect the eye appeal one bit.

 

AU-58 :thumb:

Nice coin LF!

Ribbit

 

I'm in the AU-53 to AU-55 range.

 

I need that coin for my type set. Send it on over to a new home.

 

GD is such a tightwad . . . . . . .

He uses a bowl for a hat:

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Ribbit

Ps: For those that don't play in the General Discussion Forum, we turned GD into a cat.

 

I think AU58.

 

Choice 58 IMO.

 

That's a very good observation -- there is NO luster in the fields.

I really should have mentioned it...the coin is prooflike. You can kind of make it out in the last pair of photos.

 

Man, Mike, you sure know how to pick out high eye appeal coins. I like it as a AU58 since luster is impaired. Great coin!

 

AU53.

Love those seated libbies ! Great coin, Mike. Nice even color.

 

Spock-ese is more contageous than I thought!

Ribbit

 

EF-45


stainless

 

And I thought GD was tough
rzage:hatch::hammer: