Capped Bust Half opinions

Seller's photos, not mine, so sorry about the poor resolution. Anyway, I'm guessing overdipped 30-40 range, but seller is saying 50+ (Sheldon scale).

I realize that the strikes were different through the years, but I don't know enough about the series to know what is weak strike v wear. In hand, I could tell by the luster and see if it's cleaned, etc, but from a low resolution photo? I'm somewhat at a loss.

I tried using PCGS's Photograde for comparison, but the problem is, of course, the lack of late-date CBHs in their library.

 

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XF details, cleaned based on rough surfaces.

 

Exactly, clearly XF and surfaces look funny

 

Here is an 1836 PCGS 50 (courtesy Heritage) and I think yours is at least comparable to it. Cleaning would not surprise me, but I cannot tell for sure.

 

Thanks for the input.

 

I'd put it at XF due to what I perceive as 'wear' on the eagles wings on the reverse........

 

That's an AU all day.

 

I'm curious on how this would be the case? The AU50 PCGS example clearly shows less high-point obverse wear than the coin in the original post, and the reverse wear is substantial enough that it'd be in the VF range. If I had to split grade the coin, I would be in the:

45 Obv / 30 Rev range, which is how I settled on 30-40 range net, since I wasn't sure how severely the wear on the banner impairs the grade. Even beyond that, the surfaces look cleaned/polished from that photo.

 

It doesn't really matter if it's a good XF or a low-end AU coin as it looks cleaned. If the OP provided better pictures we could say more about the surfaces.

 

45 probably cleaned.

 

The coin is over-lit so I would recommend not putting too much stock in interpretation of its surfaces.

 

I can't provide better pictures. As I said, that's the seller's picture, not mine.

 

You could ask the seller to provide better pics. Raw + bad pics = problems

 

I thought it would be easier to motivate the seller to post better pics if I wasn't the only one who thought the coin looked details VF/XF range. I just messaged him.

 

This is the easiest way for me to give you pictures.

AU50 Natural Toning

 

Why are you unable to take larger/higher res photos?

 

I don't have the equipment just yet.

 

Based on new photos, I'd say XF details - cleaned, retoned, mottled.

 

Josh, if you think it's a problem-free AU, why not get it graded? I would also check the O variety, you never know...