1895 Eagle

Hey guys!

I'm not very familiar with grading, any thoughts?

Also, I have no idea how to tell if it's been cleaned or otherwise damaged.

Thanks in advance!

Mike

 

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Slightly better obverse pic:

 

Personally, I need clear, not blurry, photos. When I enlarge your photos, they become blurry, so I cannot hazard an opinion.

 

Thank you for the feedback!

Those were the best pics I was able to take.

 

Agreed the photos are blurry. From what I can glean this does not appear to be cleaned or damaged. Liberty's hair and the eagles chest are far too pristine.... I been on a gold hiatus since spot prices went crazy, but the PCGS price guide shows an MS60 at $1150.00. Last time I bought an eagle that wasn't quite as good as yours, I paid $800.00 but that was well before spot prices went nuts. I think you have a very nice coin here.

 

A common date with a mintage of around 500,000 to 600,000 its worth around $1,000-1,100 it looks mint state to me.

 

Thank you for the feedback!

I saw this coin at my LCS back in March, and it just kinda called out to me. He gave me what I thought was a fair price at $20 over spot.

Mike

 

Here's my problem with this coin. It is not graded and slabbed. I expect the color to be darker as with age. I could be wrong, but since the photo is what it is, I believe the coin was cleaned at some point, probably recently. JMO.

 

That was pretty good of the dealer. I know a lot of them are moving gold since they are nervous about getting stuck with high spot gold, but that was a good price. That is about what I get when I pay cash from a local dealer when he gets them in. He knows he can call me and get immediate cash usually. I have told him though that above $1600 an ounce I am not really interested anymore. Wehn it drops back I will start buying the same stuff again.

Pretty coin.

 

Thank you!

I purchased it for stacking, but really liked it as a pretty piece of history as well!

Mike

 

I wondered if it should be darker as well if not cleaned.

 

I am with you. If I am going to buy gold, I want it to be an older coin. I have Napolean Bonaparte coins, classic US coins, Russian Czar pieces, etc in my "pile". Way more interesting than Maple Leaves or AGE's to me.

 

Definitely!

 

I think you did well. At twenty bucks over spot I would have jumped all over that myself.

 

He had two for sale, one at +$20 and this one at +$90. I was going to get the less nice one, and he offered either for the lower price, so I ended up with this one!

 

I'd have taken both at that price.

 

I was tempted, but happy to cherry pick this one!

 

It has a beautiful strike.

 

That's what I thought too!

 

I agree with you. It’s much more interesting to own a piece of history than some lame chunk of newly minted metal.