GTG: 1926 Sesquicentennial $2 1/2 Gold

I love this coin. Try to hit the grade!

 

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Beautiful coin.....MS65 ?

 

On my phone, that doesn’t even look gold. More like toned silver. I can only find a handful of very minor nicks in the obverse. Is that a fingerprint on the reverse? I wanted to say 66, so I will go with 65.

Edit: doh... those are sunrays. I’m an idiot.

 

MS-64. It has some tick marks.

On positive is that the coin does not seem to have any copper spots. The vast majority of these coins seem to have them.

I have always liked this coin although a lot of coin dealers dislike, some intensely. I have a soft spot for Philadelphia. When I was young, it was the place I got to go to find good coins. I grew up in rural Delaware, and coin shops did not exist there.

On a few of these coins that I have seen, the sunshine rays around Independence Hall really set the reverse off. It’s a beautiful effect with the gold making the backdrop work, but you don’t see it often. I had one such piece that I sold to a want list customer when I was a dealer.

 

That's an typical MS63

 

64

 

I much prefer the half-dollar commemorative from '26.

I'll go 64 on this one.

 

MS-62

 

I have to. I can't afford gold.

 

It's been getting a lot cheaper in recent years. Since it's only a $2.50 gold piece, the bullion probably has not pulled it up that much.

 

No you aren't. When I first saw pictures of a Sesqui I thought the same.

... ok maybe we're both idiots :-D

It's either a weakly struck MS62 or a nice AU55. Need better pics to make the call...

 

This coin was struck from shallow dies. All of them are poorly struck to one degree or another.

 

Here are two views of the piece in my collection. It's in an MS-64 holder. Now that the prices have dropped, I'd love to find and MS-65 or 66, but the higher grade pieces are not any better than this. Some of that is due to "grade-flaiton" and some of it is due to the nature of the beast. It is not a well made coin.

View One




View Two

 

Just curious....what does this coin cost approximately and where is the inflection point in the MS numbers where the price jumps a ton ?

 

Big price jumps at each step between MS64 and MS67.

 

Copy that. And that’s exactly the reason why I bought the nicest 63 out there

@GoldFinger1969 just look at the price guide and auction results for the Sesquicentennial:
https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts/coin/1926-2-50-sesquicentennial/7466

 

Eight guesses so far. Anyone else?
Reveal at 11 pm eastern.

 

I'm leaning towards ms66.

I also have one of these and love it. Mine has the most pronounced sunrays I could find, and about 1/3 of the examples I looked at had virtually imperceptible ray .

 

OK. A lot of you will be surprised.

 

Wow, micbraun did best!!!