Do you own a nice 1926 Sesquicentennial Commemorative Half-Dollar??

keets

If you do and you have some good pictures would you post them to the thread?? Thanks in advance.

Al H.

BryceM

I guess nice is in the eye of the beholder..... but this is what I have. The relief of the coin makes photographing it a bit tricky:

Bob13

I like this one... but agree these don't come as colorful or eye popping as others in the series... this is a 64+.

mcarney1173

Just bought this one on eBay recently for my 50-piece classic commemorative type set album. Expecting it to arrive later this week. After seeing many of them online and at shows I realized how difficult they are to find uncirculated and with pleasant toning.

Twobitcollector

This is my favorite commemorative coin one is my pocket piece and the other PCGS slab

CoinJunkie

Anyone know the grading markers on this issue? I've looked at dozens over the years at shows and have a hard time telling the difference between an MS63 and an MS65. And there's a huge price difference between those grades.

ernie11

I live here in Philly, yet I have resisted buying one of these because I'm not that fond of low relief coins. Yet some of your guys' examples are pretty good, I must say.

kiyote

I remember the spread between 64 and 65 in the late 1980s used to be insane.

MWallace

I have been trying to find a nice 63 to 64+ for a while now. I have yet to find one I'd like to add to my collection. The 65's are too expensive for me.

bolivarshagnasty

This issue, is much like the Peace dollar for me. I just haven’t haven’t found one I am fond of.

cheezhed

kaz

In hand, the lighter areas have a sort of rosy color to them. Can't recall the grade a.t.m.

kiyote

It’s a shame they didn’t figure out the relief because the reverse is stunning

winesteven

I bought this as a 65 with a CAC, and thought it was so nice at that grade that I sent it back to PCGS via Reconsideration. Turned out I was right, as it came back as 65+. I then sent it back to CAC to have them automatically reapply their sticker for only $3, since the cert number remains the same when Reconsideration is used, AND CAC ignores plus grades, just looks at the whole grade number, which is also unchanged.

https://images.pcgs.com/TrueView/06839304_Medium.jpg

illini420

This is the best one I've had by far...

rln_14

Pardon me for not knowing, and it was not on coinfacts, on the obverse, it is Washington and whom?

winesteven

@rln_14 said:
Pardon me for not knowing, and it was not on coinfacts, on the obverse, it is Washington and whom?

Calvin Coolidge, the President in 1926.

rln_14

@winesteven said:

@rln_14 said:
Pardon me for not knowing, and it was not on coinfacts, on the obverse, it is Washington and whom?

Calvin Coolidge, the President in 1926.

Makes sense, thanks for the info

kiyote

He was still alive at the time and kind of an awful president.

Jimnight

Nice Commemorates.

pocketpiececommems

sparky64

I only have a raw one that I picked up for near melt.
Unfortunately it has a nasty rim bump on the rev.

Some day I'd like to acquire a problem free nice one and I'd also like to compliment it with the gold $2 1/2.

MWallace

@illini420 said:
This is the best one I've had by far...

And the best one I've seen, by far. Very nice indeed.

ironmanl63

@winesteven said:
I bought this as a 65 with a CAC, and thought it was so nice at that grade that I sent it back to PCGS via Reconsideration. Turned out I was right, as it came back as 65+. I then sent it back to CAC to have them automatically reapply their sticker for only $3, since the cert number remains the same when Reconsideration is used, AND CAC ignores plus grades, just looks at the whole grade number, which is also unchanged.

https://images.pcgs.com/TrueView/06839304_Medium.jpg

I really like the look of this coin!

DIMEMAN

I like most of these pictured, but LOVE the one @illini420 posted!!!

ernie11

fyi, Bob Paul Rare Coins out of Philadelphia is selling one on his website, PCGS MS66+, CAC. Only $75K.

WinLoseWin

@kiyote said:
I remember the spread between 64 and 65 in the late 1980s used to be insane.

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They sure were. Found a December 8, 1989 Greysheet. The Sesquicentennial bid for MS-64 was $1,750 while 65 was $14,250. Lots of other commems at crazy prices also.

Current bid prices are around $150 and $750, though 66 is about $14,000. Maybe some of the old 65's are now 66, but that is not automatic.

Never owned any higher than about 62 or 63. They often look a bit rough on the cheek. I think the low relief made it less likely to strike out the planchet roughness, something like the often rough cheekbones on the Jefferson nickel. Now @pocketpiececommems Poor-1 above has a smooth cheek.

BuffaloIronTail

@kiyote said:
He was still alive at the time and kind of an awful president.

It was the first time a sitting president was put on a coin.

John Sinnock (Chief engraver at the time) executed the design.

Pete

Smudge

@illini420 seeing a Sesquicentennial that pretty is like seeing Bigfoot.

Outhaul

Nope, just the $2.5 gold Sesquicentennial.

Difficult to find one that pleases me... illini’s the exception.

messydesk