Wondering what everyone thinks its worth. I looked up the ngc code, and it showed a chart of it being at $300, but it also showed that this last month it dropped $60. I have the opportunity to grab it for $200. Beautiful coin. Let me know if its a good deal. Thanks, Joe.
@jpwestpoint, maybe you already know about Heritage (ha.com), but if you don't, they are a well-known and reliable source of closed auction results. Sign up for an account if you don't already have one (it's free), then search for "1964 accented hair 50c pf 67". Click on "Past Auction Archives" and sort by "Most Recent Sales". Then you can see for yourself that @ldhair is correct in his pricing estimate.
A lot of talk recently about "Accent Hair". I'm not sure what the big deal is on this. Unless you're an avid and most serious "I've got to have every Kennedy ever made" collector forget it. I picked up one about 3 months ago for less than $75.00, PCGS MS-66 only because it was a bargain. There's a lot of better coins for the price you mentioned.
I have several of these, but the one you want to own is a nice cameo coin, much tougher to find and a bunch more money. Cameo coins are about 20% of the brilliant proof coins pop., while D Cam. coins are only about 1.5% of the brilliant pop. With a total pop estimate of only about 50-60K, compared to almost 2-3 million of the type 2 proofs which have survived, the Accented Hair variety (or type 1 variety) is undervalued and will surely do well in future years.
NGC (as well as PCGS) price guide is probably the high retail for most coins. That being said, it varies depending on the type of coin and it's "make and model". I will bid between .45% and .65% x listed price guide for most Walkers. Just yesterday, an 1893 CC Morgan MS62 in NGC slab went for $5,600...the price guide was $6500.
Be very careful if/when taking advice from anyone with an emotional opinion of or attachment to the or any coin. Unfortunately, many collectors will promote personal favorites as being better/wiser acquisitions for the simple fact that they want them to be such. What's best for them doesn't necessarily mean the same will be true for you. If the accented hair variety is what catches your eye and is something you're certain you'll enjoy, then this is the coin you should search out no matter what anyone else says or thinks. Just take your time, learn as much as possible about both the coin and series, and try to search out the nicest example you can afford or can be purchased with what you're willing to spend. There can, at least for one who collects, be much more to be gained by thoughtful buying than any highly questionable/debatable future potential.
PCGS has auction price listings that aggregate Heritage, eBay, David Lawrence, Great Collections, and others. Check it out here: http://www.pcgs.com/auctionprices/details.aspx?r=6800&v=accented+hair&dv=1964&pf=pr&c=125&g=0 Just eyeballing these listings, it seems like $150-200 is the right ball park for a brilliant AH in PR67.
