1918-D Walking Liberty Half - Bad Picture Guess The Grade

AU53. No, scratch that. xf40.

 

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Due to a Looping issue at the post office, this finally arrived today.

Heading to NGC



The picture only does one angle, if you want to view the video, click here

 

LOL! Winner, winner, chicken dinner...

 

So, you've got it in-hand -- AU, or MS?

 

I'm going to say 62

 

No way that is a 62. There is significant wear on the reverse coupled with the speckled toning that detracts from eye appeal. Still, really nice 1918-D, the obverse is better, so I will give a grade of AU58...Spark

 

I'll be waiting impatiently to see what NGC has to say.

Whether they say 58 or 62, that's got to be a four-figure coin. I'm desperately curious what it went for with the bad photo, but too well-bred to ask.

 

I don't think anyone would believe me if I said how much I paid for it...

 

Well, in one sense, if you didn't get it from a bank teller at face value, you overpaid.

You're still unlikely to do as well as the member who bought three fuzzily-photographed 1942 Mercs for $30, and got the D graded as an MS65... 42/41-D. Book value around $25K.

So, really, we'll believe you.

 

@BigTee44 Man-up and tell us, and here is why....NGC is listing this as $890/AU55 and your four- figure amount $1,200/AU58.

After looking again at the newer pics, that thing has wear on the obverse central elements...face necklace and leg among others. It is a 55, and yes, that is what I believe it will grade as.

Spark

 

And you're one hundred percent confident in your ability to distinguish between wear and strike weakness from a single photo? If so, good on you; I'm not there yet, and not sure I ever will be.

 

I remember that thread, it made me look through all my junk silver, and I actually found one, thread here.

I paid under $100 for the 1918-D Half. It was self graded as a VF. I found it as soon as it was listed and used the Buy it Now feature.

I don't collect WLH so I could be wrong in my grade assessment, but it's only a $30 learning lesson for me to find out. If it's AU50 or MS66, it was going in for grading. I know to buy cheap key dates when they pop up, but @C-B-D usually beats everyone to the checkout.

Here are some more RAW pictures of the coin

 

Yep, You're Doing It Right.

 

You stole it, great grab there. I was at 50 with the scan, then saw the new images and would now call it AU-55. There are obvious strike weaknesses, but I think I see some light rubs as well. I’m officially rooting for a 63 just to make it an even better cherrypick though.

 

Big score, man. Jealous!

 

You and BigTee44 both do a great job of finding cool stuff like this.
I'm jealous as well.

 

I look through a boat load of auctions... I really wish eBay had better filter features.

Like I wish I could block certain sellers so I wouldn't have to see their coins. There's like 20 million coins on ebay, and 19/20 of those are not what I'm looking for.

Even a broken clock stumbles across the right time twice a day.

 

Ditto!

I just wish I could find any of the 1921 Walkers that looked even close to that for about that kind of money.

 

At VF I think the price was fair. Although at XF-45 that price doubles.
I don't think it's AU. Still a nice piece.

 

AU55, cleaned