This coin has never been graded but I'm just curious to hear some opinions of those more educated than I am. The coin means a lot to me, and it has much sentimental value, so comments like "junk silver" or "what an ugly coin" are not welcome. Here it is: Thanks in advance for your replies. I love this coin, and I'll never sell it so the value is irrelevant, but I'd like a ballpark estimate of what it would grade at.
Did you have a look at PCGS photograde online? You should be able to see the difference btw. VF and XF... also compare the coin to slabbed VF35 and XF40 Peace dollars. It works for me
I think the rev. looks like an XF40, not quite sure though about the obv which seems to be borderline VF/XF.
Sorry, but I have to disagree about the coin being problem free. Something was done to the obv, not sure what based on the pics but those are not natural surfaces.
If anything was done to this coin, it was at least 60 years ago as it's been in the family that long and I know for a fact that they didn't clean it. I don't see anybody cleaning a 25 year old coin when it was just another coin. Sorry, but I have to agree that it's a problem free coin.
Do you realize Bugo that harshly cleaning coins was what almost every collector did to the coins in their collection until about 40 years ago ? And it's only been last 30 or so that the number of those who did not harshly clean their coins began to catch up.
They harshly cleaned 25 year old coins? Were the peace dollars even collectors items in the early '50s?
They were collectors items even before the 50s, as were Morgans, and gold coinage of the 19th, and early to mid 20th centuries. Coin collecting isn't a young hobby, it's been going on for hundreds of years. And yes, older numismatists regularly cleaned their coins to keep them shiny.
Yes, and on a regular basis. That is what collectors thought they were supposed to do up until the late 1970's. They were collected from the day they were first issued, just like the coins of today are. Where do you think all of them on the market today came from ? They came from the collections of coin collectors, just like all of the coins from the 1800's and late 1700's in this country. And just like all of the coins going to 700 BC from other countries. They all came from coin collectors. With some few exceptions coming from ground finds, shipwrecks, and buried hoards.
