Nice Matt! MS65 is a decent grade on any US Philippine coin of that era! You may or may not know this, but the 1904 is more plentiful in higher MS grades than most of it's counterparts due to a dealer by the name of Farran Zerbe. Farran ordered 10,000 sets of the 1904 coinage to sell at the Louisiana Expo of 1904. He only sold 3,754 to the public and 6,246 sets were released back into circulation. If you want to sell them, send me a PM. Also: This belongs in the US coin section...
To clarify my other comment, The 1904 dated 10C, 20C, 50C and one Peso was only made for Farran Zerbe, the 1/2C. 1C, and 5C were made for circulation with mintages of over at least a million each. You will occasionally find well stuck business strike 1904 coins labeled as proofs form the tpgs and some coin dealers.
An attractive group, much nicer than my examples of this date. jhinton - I used to believe that these belonged under US coins too and still lean in that direction. I hadn't seen any of your threads on the Philippines, as I usually don't bother with the US section of this forum.
Nice! I like the history of our dark Imperialist days. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" -George Santayana
