A couple of half eagles. I am looking to add the no motto types and the commemoratives, and these were several inexpensive additions. The $5 liberty is ex-PCI graded.
I don't know what PCI is ..a lower tier grading company, I'm guessing but the Lib has a nasty scratch on the obverse which ruins the eye appeal for me.
I wouldnt really call PCI a lower tier. There are far lower ones in my mind. They were recently purchased by David Lawrence Coins in VA. They have now become DGS Dominion Grading. The scratch is in a bad place on that 5. I assume you paid Bullion for it.
Buillion being about $280 ..I'm guessing there was atleast a $70 premium for being pre-civil war gold. I'm guessing you paid $350 for it. What was the grade on the PCI Slab. I use the term "lower tier" to refer to anything that's not NGC, PCGS, ANACS.
Yeah, my camera tends to magnify any hairlines way beyond reality, so the comments don't surprise me. The scratch displayed is not any deeper than the circulation hairlines, but the photography makes it look larger than life. And I agree PCI is lower tier, and it was in a problem free green label XF-40 slab. The coin still has lots of luster and some crusty toning, but it also has a lot of hairlines in the fields like lots of circulated gold I've seen. It could have been cleaned at some point too, but it still has a lot of luster for a 40. May have been silently netted. You are correct with the value guess Hudson. I paid $300 for the bald eagle commemorative. Not great deals, but I'm fine with it.
