Just picked up my first old gold. Any opinions on grade/value?

I picked these up today for right about bullion value. However, they seem to be in pretty fantastic shape - but I'm certainly no expert on US gold. Any opinions would be welcome!

 

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where did you buy them? Always be careful, their are fakes!

 

Bought them from a very reputable local pawn shop.

 

I like them especially the $2.50 dollar 1

 

All. Xf to au common dates but nice early gold worth a bit of a premium over melt but not significant numismatic value regardless there nice coins anyone would be happy to have

 

I really like them all and would be very happy to get them anywhere near spot! Well done

 

Yes, nice coins - picking up any gold coins for spot price is a bargain these days. Good find!

 

since they are real and you got them close to bullion price, great deal, you now hold a cool piece of history in your hands!

 

Think you did good with price.

I'm not an expert on these coins but they look cleaned to me

 

Gold $1 for near melt?

If real, a great deal.

 

Great price for the coins! I would pay melt all day long for those!

 

Yep, paid a little under 5% over for each of them. I do believe them to be real - reputable seller, details appear right to my untrained eye, they sound right, and weights are dead on to within the accuracy of my scale.

Do you see anything other than the price that leads you to be skeptical of their authenticity?

 

I do agree that they look cleaned. Definite hairlines in the fields under the right light. However, I was hoping for some more insight on an approximate details grade, more out of an academic exercise to learn a little something about grading US gold. I'm completely new to it, but I highly doubt this will be the last time I buy some.

 

I couldn't disagree more strongly with you on that. G details coins and Unc details coins are vastly different in both value and appeal. An otherwise nearly flawless coin with great detail, full luster, and a problem is significantly more desirable to most collectors than a worn-slick coin with the same problem. I'd even say that it would be more desirable than the worn coin even without the problem in many cases, to many collectors.

 

I agree here with Doug. Since they are details coins, they lose a lot of their numismatic value, and have primarily bullion value. However, even cleaned, they are pretty coins--they will just never grade.

 

They would be great to show the kids........."hey kids, look at what a ten dollar coin looked like back in the day". Ahhhh this is why I love coin collecting so much!

 

well the 2 $1s are in pretty good shape I would say vf/xf and xf/au on the 2.50 and 5. All 4 appear cleaned to me so would most likely be "detailed" if graded. At near melt you did very well. I know without a doubt both of the $1s would sell 150-300 (love tokens of both sell in the 100-130 range) so 2-4 times melt even in details grade and the 2.50s I seldom see sell for under $400. I haven't done much with $5s $10s and $20s yet as they are beyond my budget at moment but I would still expect to pay at least twice melt for the one you have there. So at near melt I think you did fantastic and would gladly have any of the above in my type set

 

I will admit I am a novice at grading. But it seems weird that it's so binary... a problem coin is a zero, and a non-problem coin is a one, no matter how slight the problem is? Certainly I can see where someone (such as myself) that doesn't catch this subtlety would pay more for a "pretty" problem coin than an ugly one...

Maybe I don't understand what causes a coin to fall under the "problem" category. I guess I have some more reading to do.