Hello friends, Today,I remarked that one of the silver shop which is on the same road of my father shop (where I help him,afternoons) had putten some coins on the display. Most of them was arabic country coins & some US coins, dimes & Morgan Dollars (FAKE ONES). He said that many people came & sold silver coins to him,because of the value of silver have rised (to 14 $) ect. I was looking in the display,I saw a Liberty Half,which was the only Liberty Walking Half. It was impossible to see the date,The coin was in AG/G4 condition,I could not see the date,until I focused on the date part,I hardly remarked 1921. I turned the reverse to see the mint mark,I felt that I had no chance to know it. So, This 1921 could be P,D or S,Who knows! Is there another way to guess the mint?maybe from the die? Do you buy such coins? It is a key date,even it's G4,but it has this mintmark probleme... Price: he said $20 OK, now it's too much for a G4 Half Dollar! But it's not too much for a 1921 P Half Dollar. The silver sellers knows nothing about coins,he shouldn't ask this much,I dunno. Here is a coin I found on Ebay that looks exactly of the one I saw. It has the same condition,but that round that circulates the http://cgi.ebay.com/1921-D-WALKING-...ryZ41100QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem I also checked up,The PCGS Price Guid, I saw there is a rise of price for Liberty Haves.Specially 1921. Values 4G4 examples: 1921=$200, 1921-D=$375 1921-S=$55 Prior Prices: 190, 320 , 52 LOOK at 1921-D!!! $55 Dollar rise! Wow So, I'm confused! To pay $20 for this AG coin or to not pay??? what's the good deal?:thumb:
i wouldnt buy it, unless you have $20 to pay for a coin most likely worth alot less. It would be a gamble, but i have never heard of differences in dies from different mints here in the US... at least not in the modern era. in the 1800's maybe different dies and stuff, but i dont think they had that issue since opening more then the one mint.
Since it's in a shop, can't you simply go in and ask to look at it? See for yourself if it has a mintmark.
Thats what I was thinking. You should at least be able to tell if there is a mint mark, or lack of a mint mark.
If it's worn to the point where you can't even see a mint mark then it's not worth more than melt anyway.
I can't imagine it being so bad that you can't at least see a blob to indicate that there was a mint mark.
