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<p>[QUOTE="illini420, post: 1058914, member: 19423"]With the 1918 Illinois Commemorative Half Dollar, I'd pretty much stay away from all of the more boring white looking coins that are in the AU58-MS63 range as many of them have been cleaned and they mostly look pretty beat up... depending on your budget you can get a much much better looking coin...</p><p> </p><p>if you're budget is in the $100 or so range, maybe even a little less, you can likely get a cooler looking coin if you go for a lightly circulated XF example that has a bit of dirt in the crevices, perhaps an ex. pocket piece. I find a lightly to medium circulated example of this coin much much more interesting than a boring white low mint state example... as long as there are no unattractive spotting or rim damage or anything like that.</p><p> </p><p>of course if you can save up until you can spend $200 or a little more, you can occasionally find some really attractive MS64 examples (or MS65 if you can go up to $250-$300)... sure, you can find plain white MS64 coins for $160-175 or so, but for a few bucks more I've seen some very nicely toned near gem examples. For example, the coin below is an NGC MS64 example that I bought a couple of years ago for about $250 (maybe a $50 premium over a plain white example at the time):</p><p> </p><p><img src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm111/illini420/1918lincolnhalf.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p> </p><p>I've bought dozens of 1918 Illinois Halves in the past few years and generally, it's been my experience that it's very very very hard to find a special, attractive IL half in the $125-$175 price range. But there are some great ones just above and just below that range.</p><p> </p><p>Remember, around 100,000 of these were made so you can afford to be very very selective and patient when choosing the one for your collection! Unless you're going to sell within the next few weeks/months, there are much more important considerations than price.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>And of course, if you're willing to spend a bunch more (about $2000 or so), you can get a PCGS MS67 CAC example like this one I bought last year... not the best one, but not too bad so I got it:</p><p> </p><p><img src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm111/illini420/LincolnBobv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm111/illini420/LincolnBrev.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Best of luck finding the right coin for you!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="illini420, post: 1058914, member: 19423"]With the 1918 Illinois Commemorative Half Dollar, I'd pretty much stay away from all of the more boring white looking coins that are in the AU58-MS63 range as many of them have been cleaned and they mostly look pretty beat up... depending on your budget you can get a much much better looking coin... if you're budget is in the $100 or so range, maybe even a little less, you can likely get a cooler looking coin if you go for a lightly circulated XF example that has a bit of dirt in the crevices, perhaps an ex. pocket piece. I find a lightly to medium circulated example of this coin much much more interesting than a boring white low mint state example... as long as there are no unattractive spotting or rim damage or anything like that. of course if you can save up until you can spend $200 or a little more, you can occasionally find some really attractive MS64 examples (or MS65 if you can go up to $250-$300)... sure, you can find plain white MS64 coins for $160-175 or so, but for a few bucks more I've seen some very nicely toned near gem examples. For example, the coin below is an NGC MS64 example that I bought a couple of years ago for about $250 (maybe a $50 premium over a plain white example at the time): [IMG]http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm111/illini420/1918lincolnhalf.jpg[/IMG] I've bought dozens of 1918 Illinois Halves in the past few years and generally, it's been my experience that it's very very very hard to find a special, attractive IL half in the $125-$175 price range. But there are some great ones just above and just below that range. Remember, around 100,000 of these were made so you can afford to be very very selective and patient when choosing the one for your collection! Unless you're going to sell within the next few weeks/months, there are much more important considerations than price. And of course, if you're willing to spend a bunch more (about $2000 or so), you can get a PCGS MS67 CAC example like this one I bought last year... not the best one, but not too bad so I got it: [IMG]http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm111/illini420/LincolnBobv.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm111/illini420/LincolnBrev.jpg[/IMG] Best of luck finding the right coin for you!![/QUOTE]
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