GTG poll (guess the grade) 1892 Barber half dollar

These are cellphone photos, not professional shots, so we're working within those limitations, here.

The coin is mostly white, with the peripheral toning you see, and some decent luster which doesn’t entirely show in these images.

 

Being conservative, and based on these photos, if I was seeing this coin blind, in someone else’s GTG thread, I’d likely guess one point lower than the actual grade (so that's how I voted in the poll, pretending I didn't know the answer). The fact that the luster doesn’t entirely come through is a factor in that.

Edit: here is an admittedly low-quality GIF to show the luster somewhat.

 

I voted MS64 before seeing the GIF. I thought I saw meaningful marks on the coin, but they don't detract . . . I think it's more likely an MS65.

 

Seeing the luster (at least imperfectly in the GIF) does make a difference, I reckon.

In hand, it's a bright beauty.

 

The CoinTalk consensus so far is running a bit higher than that in the parallel thread on Collectors Universe. But some people over there have guessed correctly.

(Spoiler): So far, nobody here has (including myself, because I pretended not to know the answer and graded my poll vote like I would have guessed if I saw these pics in someone else’s poll.)

But the poll only has six votes as of this typing.

 

I might do the reveal after there have been 20 or so votes in the poll. I count 11 so far.

 

Thanks for that detailed analysis, and sorry my mediocre photog skills weren’t quite up to the challenges presented by this one.