I was just wondering the grade and how much you think it is worth. I am new to collecting and i know it is a common coin. I am just trying to find out to help me with purchases in the Future .
I collect Walkers and that is a very nice one. I would guess the grade is MS62+ and you can find the value by doing a Google search-"NGC price list for Walking Liberty Half Dollars" I hope this helps.
Looks like a low mint state ms60-62 with a few finger prints either on the holder or the coin cant tell !! But good luck !! Also did you buy this ??
I would be interested to hear how the two gentlemen were, with any level of certainty, able grade this coin using only the provided photos.
I was mainly focused on wear on the high surfaces, like Lady Liberty. I didn't see any indicating the coin had not seen much if any circulation,same thing with the Reverse on the Eagles Wings. I could not detect any wear on the high spots but I didn't see much if any Mint Lustre although there may be some you pic did not show it. I think you made a very good buy even though it is a common date. One other thing,when you are buying coins be sure to watch for coins that have been cleaned. Good Luck.
Thank you for taking the time to respond. If there was no mint luster, the coin could not grade at that level. My point was that even after playing with the photos, there is not enough information present to grade that coin with even a reasonable level of certainty IMO. The reverse photo suggests luster is present, but it is impossible to get even a feel for what is truly there. The obverse photo, when manipulated, suggests more wear than simple and acceptable roll friction, but is also impossible to say with any degree of certainty. At this point, the best thing the OP could do is to remove the coin from its holder, get more light on the surfaces, and rephotograph.
I agree but without any wear being visible I was assuming if taken out of the plastic holder you would be able to see some mint luster,if it is present it should grade a 64 according to the 3rd party grading service you use. Also if you will hold the coin by the rims and tilt it at a 45 degree angle under a good light source (not to bright) and look at it along its fields using a 10x magnifier you should be able to see if there are any scratches on it,but looking at it in the holder it looks like a really nice coin. There is one area on the obverse above the date that looks a little unusual but it could be the holder.
I made my grade based off what i can see i seems luster is present the only wear i can see is just bag wear but their might be finger prints on it for what i can see that is my estimate i am only going off what i am given to the best of my ability!
There seems to be some confusion, so just to be clear, this isn't my coin. Trying to help the OP is commendable, but again, the photos are not of the necessary quality to matter-of-factly state a grade for this coin. Please remember what he said in his first post: "I am new to collecting and i know it is a common coin. I am just trying to find out to help me with purchases in the future." Care should be taken when giving opinions to someone new to collecting and who plans to base future purchases off of this specimen; assumptions as to what may or may not be there could just as easily cause more harm than good. Also, to grade a 64, more than "some" mint lusted needs to be present, and 10x is both unnecessary and too powerful for grading; glass of half that magnification is more than sufficient.
I don't want this to turn into a he said she said type of situation but if you will go back and look I never said I was new at coin collecting, far from it as I have been collecting coins for some 30 years. You graded it MS62 and I could use the same logic that if there is no mint luster it should not go above a 58. I think we are all getting our panties in a wad over who is the most knowledgeable. I gave an opinion based on what I could see and the magnification of the loupe is up to the coin examiner and the state of their eye sight. I know coin graders at all 3 major grading services that suggest using a 6x double loupe if necessary. Just trying to help out but you can throw my opinion out the window since it seems only one persons opinion counts. What I said was I was new to this forum. I wish you the best of luck with your coins. If you want to know the correct grade ANACS is holding a special @ $12.50 per coin and you can submit it directly to them.
Sorry I read the post the wrong way,you are not referring to me as being new to collecting. Took it the wrong way. My apologies, Sir. But if the owner of the coin wants to sell it at the 64 price I will purchase it.
Perhaps I should have used the available quote function instead of inserting inline. Anyway, don't worry about it, but I do appreciate that you took the time to clarify. In response to the previous post (minus the misunderstanding): No, I did not (and would not), but what I have done is repeatedly say that the photos are not of the necessary quality to grade or gauge, with any level of certainty, the coin's overall condition. If there were no mint luster it would come nowhere near that level, period. Not on my end. I am simply questioning the logic of giving opinions based on so little information, especially since the OP clearly stated that he is both new, and plans to use opinions of this coin as a basis for future purchases, which is a mistake in itself. I respect your opinion and am not so much trying to discount it, but I do believe that the OP, if he/she is truly going to use any opinions offered, needs to understand that only so much can be done with such poor images. Perhaps if he were to properly re-shoot the coin, this would prove you correct, but until or unless he does, this all is no more than peeing in the wind.
Understood and agree. We are all gentlemen here and as such we should have a gentlemans agreement "We agree to Disagree".
