My wife's American grandmother gave her this coin, we now have it in the UK (Norfolk) and have decided to try to sell it. Any chance someone wants to suggest a grade and rough price? Thinking of listing it on eBay, or just take it to the local coin shop here. They have said "very fine" and about £1300 (GBP), but they will pay less for it as they need to make a profit. Any thoughts would be welcome!
I'm guessing a light struck dbl eagle with 1.8m vintage I'd think $1000 unless a individual collector wanted to fill in a missing year/set? Good luck
I think you'd better take another look at the current price of gold -- it's gone up a bit in the decade or so since you last checked. From these photos, the OP's coin looks to me like it's in low mint state -- uncirculated, but with lots of bag marks. I don't see any sign of cleaning or damage in these photos. It's a common date, though, and with gold at its current price, you'll have a hard time getting more than melt for it. £1300 ($1665?) sounds like a reasonable retail sale price. The dealer of course would pay less, but on a mostly-gold-value coin like this, he should be willing to accept a rather narrow margin. (For lower-value coins the markup is often 30% or more, but for gold, it should be less than 10%.)
I buy and sell raw $20 coins fairly often. I am able to get them slightly below melt with ebay bucks, etc, and get usually $20 or so over melt pretty easily. Today's melt price is $1,590.. so you should be able to get $1,600 or so for it if you sell on the boards or some place similar. Not worth spending the money on grading fees. Here are current melt prices https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/coin-melt-values.aspx?MeltCategoryID=1&BaseMetal=US-Gold-Coin
Baggy but not severe good luster commo date. Probably a ms 62, so around $1600 give or take $50 given the current gold market. Good clean original surfaces help
