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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 660915, member: 15199&quot;]Ok, all bets are in,&nbsp; Here is the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq279/desertgem/boonepcgs63.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>PCGS MS-63 Rattler. This was the first commemorative I purchased after an 1892</p><p>AU Columbus half. It was purchased from Teletrade in 1987 when we received a printed catalog by mail and then bid by touch-tone telephone ( cat&#039;s-meow). There were snipers even then. Granny paid the $225 back then ( even slabbed by an upcoming company called PCGS), but that was the hayday it seemed for Commemorative halves, and then the bottom fell over time, I have been considering picking up some of the scarcer ones as I think they have very artful designs and low populations.&nbsp; But to each his own path.</p><p><br /></p><p>Several of the links to comparative coins did not have the same 1935/34 reverse, and typically they run 50-100% more. The one link for the 2/08 auction was a great deal!</p><p>CDN gives a single Boone type coin @ about $115 MS-63&nbsp; ( probably 1934 or 1935P), a PDS set of 1935 is about $350, but the PDS set for 1935/34 is about $850 ; the D and S single is more than the P because only about 2000 of each of those were issued. </p><p><br /></p><p>Granny would have been happy to consider a $175-185 figure as fair.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope you enjoyed the exercise. My answer obviously on the value is my own estimate, and everyone would have to consider their own circumstances. </p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for looking!</p><p><br /></p><p>Jim[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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