Spanish Trail Commem: Grade Opinions?

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  1. bqcoins

    bqcoins Olympic Figure Skating Scoring System Expert

    Just picked this up today! I've been itching to add one of these to my collection for a while now but finding one in my price range has been tedious. What with a mintage of only 10,000 and high collector demand...you know. But I got this one for a fair price I think. Honestly commems are notoriously hard to grade as they are mostly one year type coins, and without a whole lot of design to work with the Spanish Trail is that much more difficult to grade.
    I threw in two pictures under different lighting schemes just so you can get a feel for the coin.
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  3. Tom B

    Tom B TomB Everywhere Else

  4. rzage

    rzage What Goes Around Comes Around .

    It's a beauty , and I'll go AU-58 .
     
  5. theSharpGun

    theSharpGun The King

    Great coin! I'm not even going to hazard a guess but that's a great piece.
    Question though, why didn't you get an already graded piece? Or is that one graded? If so my mistake.
     
  6. bqcoins

    bqcoins Olympic Figure Skating Scoring System Expert

    No, it is not graded. I don't usually do graded pieces...oh I have a few but the majority of my collection isn't slabbed. I have sent a few in, but that is more for insurance or if I want to sell them than anything else.
     
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  7. Kirkuleez

    Kirkuleez 80 proof

  8. theSharpGun

    theSharpGun The King

    I was just wondering because I'd figure a piece that rare would need to be slabbed before anybody bought it but I suppose it depends ones expertise and how comfortable one is buying raw coins. Again, great piece!
     
  9. green18

    green18 Unknown member Sweet on Commemorative Coins

    High AU, low MS.........
     
  10. rzage

    rzage What Goes Around Comes Around .

    The top pic doesn't show much wear at all , just a tiny bit of rub . The only thing that makes me say 58 are all the tiny surface hits in the fields . As usual you're right , as I'd bet it could go either way at a tpg , and if you sent her in 2X it would probably get both a 58 and a MS . You the man with early commems Ken .
     
  11. green18

    green18 Unknown member Sweet on Commemorative Coins

    And for that one could argue circulation (rough handling) and I have read that these issues were very well handled by the mint and should have clean surfaces........
     
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