GTG-1871 Liberty Seated Dollar

A couple of months ago, I walked into the Lakeland, Florida Collect-o-Rama show with a few thousand in cash burning a hole in my pocket. But I was really looking for a few relatively low-cost coins for my type set (1909 VDB Cent in MS-65, etc.). I wasn't mentally prepared to spend several thousand dollars on one coin.

So, one of the coins I've been looking to add to my type set is a Liberty Seated Dollar w/Motto. I found one at West Coast Coin's table, a fabulous coin by any estimation but at about what I thought was a $1000 premium to the "going rate". Anyway, way too much money for my mental preparation for the show. So, I passed and a few tables away, I found the coin displayed herein.

This is just a hole-filler and I make no pretensions to its desirability but it came at a good price.

It is housed in an ICG slab and I would be appreciative of your thoughts on its grade and any thing else you would care to opine on.

 

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XF40 i like it nice coin,one I still need and dream about.

 

XF-40 Details, cleaned

 

XF45, pretty nice for a hole filler

 

EF-Details, cleaned. Nice coin though.

 

EF-40
J.T.

 

How do you two see it as cleaned?is it the odd color.

 

EF details, cleaned. Old cleaning and retoning. If it isn’t details, you got off lucky. Still a very nice looking coin. If it is straight graded EF 40.

 

XF45

Nice coin. About 2% of me would want to say details because of the scratch across the obverse shield, but I don't think it's distracting or severe enough to get the details hit.

 

I think it got a 35. Nice coin.

 

I agree completely, that's why I said what I did. The unnatural luster (toning) in the protected areas (for example, around the stars) are a dead giveaway.

 

Check all devices. No hint of accumulated grime. Clean denticles. The coin has had a past cleaning and re-toned.

 

VF-35

 

I see it now but ill stick with my gut and say it got a pass.

 

I'm thinking that the cleaning was so long ago that it got a straight grade. Coins with this look seem to go either way.

 

That is why I am hedging—my initial impression was an EF details coin. However, it could have passed, and made the grade as an EF 40.

 

I understand ICG is tough on cleaned coins.

 

Everybody got really close on this one. I appreciate all the comments. The coin is straight-graded by ICG at EF-40. I agree that it had an old cleaning that wasn't so harsh that it couldn't recover and then get straight-graded.

For those so inclined, this is the OC-2 die marriage and an R-3 coin, even though the 1871 is the most common of the With Motto dates. I have included my attribution photos below.

 

Nailed it first one,I think some of you need a cleaning.

 

Xf45