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.
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.
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.
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!
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 .
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........