1935 S Peace Silver $

Grade this coin? Yes picture is bad . I shot it from my iPhone

 

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Mint state total washout..........

 

MS63

 

MS 64 ...the reverse looks better than the obverse but it might be the photo...still a nice semi key date

 

In that slab the label might state MS-65. Of course that is just my silly wild guess based upon the photos. Getting NGC or PCGS to cross at the same grade might be a challenge. It's a pretty coin.

Here is my 1935-S with four rays below ONE.

 

64

 

63 but that's my grade, not what the slab may say. I hate thumb nails. Wish it was not an option here.

 

Eh, I cheated and looked up the cert. I don't think I would be comfortable deciding between a 63, 64, 65 from Redcent's photos- too much glare and too many pixels being used for the background.

 

There's insufficient detail on either face for grading; at least the 1921 has a good-enough reverse image to give me some traction. This is not to demean your photography skills, redcent230 - lustrous silver is as tough as it gets to shoot - but the standard for grading Mint State coins really needs to be higher to avoid garbage-in, garbage-out opinions.

 

What's that?

 

The further the coin is from the camera the smoother everything looks because less pixels aren't being used for the actual coin. Sometimes this is taken to an extreme by bad sellers (I see it most often in estate sales listings), where they take the photo from across the room, zoom in to make it to size and crop away excess.
Thus, I don't think I would gauge a $1k swing based on the photo above since some features could be hidden by this effect. We could grade it on what we know. We know that ICG graded coins often don't meet the standard of PCGS or NGC of the same grade.

 

64, though I wish the pic was better.

Nice one, at any rate. I'd gladly let it fill that hole among my Peace dollars.

 

Yes sorry I am not much a digital photo person. I might have to invest in that area in the future. The coin looks alot better than this.

 

So is it 4 rays worth more than 3 ?

 

It's a variety, VAM-3, for the issue. Not particularly uncommon, although his looks to be in a rather uncommon grade.

 

What is the grade on the holder?

 

MS 64

 

Another beauty. It never gets old.

 

Thank You

 

I'm not surprised. It's a good one. The things I was most worried about in your images were the hair behind the cheek and the detail on the point of the shoulder; these are the two places I look the hardest on Peace Dollars when determining between Circulated and Uncirculated.