Stone mountain half dollar

Just wanted to post my stone mountain half dollar that i recently purchased, and see what yall thought on the grade of it. I know its not great, but i got it for what i think is a good price.

 

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That is arguably my favorite classic commemorative.

 

I got it for 25 bucks

 

Not bad at all. I got one a while back. It's full of history, most of it controversial to this day.

 

Nice pickup and at a decent price. XF-45, but that's an humble opine.

Ya might want to cinch down those staples so ya don't scratch up other coins when ya stow this baby.

 

I live 5 mins away from the mountain, wanted this coin as a kid and finally found it locally. Im gonna move the coin to a self sealing flip

 

The old man had one when I was a kid, and when I returned to the hobby back in 2000, it was one of the first commems I bought.

 

My grandfather had one when i was younger. Always been my favorite commem. Walked in my local shop for mor flips, and there it was. They had one that looked better but out of my budget this month. I will return for it next month, hopefully itll still be there.

 

Nice example! In my opinion, it's a high XF and maybe even an AU on a good day.

 

Your last statement is so true......I gave a dealer I know a royal blasting verbally using words that cannot be used here....due to the fact he doesn't take the time to take a pair of needle nose pliers and mash down the staples .
I purchased a BU 1874 US Three cent nickel.
It was a coin that made you say wow! Until the other coin purchased from him put a huge scratch across the coin!
** it only takes a few seconds to smash a staple don't let one detail one of your coins**!
I must share some of this misfortune as had I paid attention when I purchased the coin those staples would of been addressed before it went into my pocket.
Great pointer Ken @green18

 

I am starting a study of the Stone Mountain Half to be published in several months. I would be interested in keeping this forum thread going if anyone still has something to post about this commemorative.

I was taken back by an article on CoinWorld a couple of weeks ago where the author called anyone who collected these or who appreciated the carving a racist. That got me interested in the coin and carving, and since I lived pretty close I thought why not explain it in more detail without the politics.

 

By the way, has anyone ever seen a TPG description for the grading standards. This one might be tough because of the design and poor strikes.

 

A good dealer friend of mine had a coin shop for probably 60 years. He bought every one of these that came in but would never sell one. The Stone Mountain was really special to him. He must have had close to a thousand of them in his collection.
When he passed, I wondered what the family did with that collection. I hope they saved it and put it away.

 

When I have the information ready to show I will post a link here, but for now the trick is to accumulate enough inventory to study

 

A great one to be sure, however, Oregon Trail is the best IMHO.

 

Little surprised to hear CoinWorld allowed such drivel to be published under their name. Whatever author wrote that regardless of who they are just exposed themselves as a numismatic and journalistic hack.

 

Well CoinWorld should be about coins and not politics in my opinion

There is a little politics in everything, but this is about coins and let the politicians pontificate about the rest

 

For my 5th birthday my Dad gave me a 1925 Peace dollar (the year of his birth), no doubt one he'd stashed away from a passenger needing change when he was driving the City bus from 1957 (he did that until 1974, when they went bankrupt)... and on my 10th birthday he gave me a Stone Mountain Half... I have both coins, and a bunch of others, but the Stone Mountain always makes me think of Dad...
Thanks guys!

 

I don't think so, but I have seen the PCGS graded G04

 

I think I only have one Stone Mountain, and it was possibly politically defaced by someone scratching an X in front of the eagle.