I guess if your looking to fill the space and this is all you can afford. Looks much nicer than most of the "AG-03" I've seen (Both PCGS & NGC) Sadly I didn't get a picture of the Reverse.
Looks like a G4. Still not much bang for your buck but if that hole In your collection just really bugs you... That coin may increase in value too.???
I also say G-4 although the scratch is a concern. Perhaps the reverse is worse and it net graded AG-03. Great date.
I'm betting the reverse rim is worn into the fields. Seems like a lot of G4 and some G6 Barber quarters and halves have AG3 reverses due to worn rims
Exceptionally tough coin to find at a reasonable price. From G-4 to F-12, PCGS price guide shows a $10k jump. Pretty ridiculous leaps for a coin of a mintage of 72k. I've seen some early gold with lower mintages that are a lot less in price.
Mintage is a very poor judge of supposed price. Usage and survival are far far more important. You could have a mintage of 10 million but if all but 1 are destroyed it is rarer than something with a mintage of 5 where all survived.
+ desirability. There are definitely a lot of gold coins that have low survival and can get them for not bad prices relative to that because there aren't many people out there trying to put together a complete set of $10 liberty heads for instance. Compared to barbers or other more widely collected series where the keys get super inflated
Agreed. If Seated or Barber keys got the type of attention Lincoln "keys" did they'd all be 6 figures minimum
Even some of the obscure seateds like the 1849-O half dime which aren't regarded as keys would be worth 6 figures if they had the same attention as Lincoln Cents. I own a CWT with 5-10 known examples, rarer than an 1804 dollar. It cost a whopping $57.
In the same vein as this comes to mind the 1796 quarter. Dates like 1804, 1824, 1849-O, and others are quite possibly less common than the 1796, but due to pressure from type set builders, first year of issue seekers, 1700s coin fans, etc. it ends up costing way more than scarcer coins. It's amazing what demand does to prices!
