1881 Half Eagle GTG, Grade Revealed
Tonedeaf
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My first GTG, go easy. Grade, stickers...
The luster in hand is much better than my pictures indicate. More pictures a few posts down the page
Thanks for playing.
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65
Mr_Spud
I hate going first! 64/65?
EDIT: I guess that's second. 😉
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64+. Seems to be lacking much in the way of chatter or hairlines.
What is preventing her from being 65? Is that really the true color of this piece?
Looks like a 65 with very clean surfaces especially on the reverse.
With luster more than the pics and an NGC holder, I’m going 65+
Ruh-roh, my pictures look better than I thought? Here are the TPGs glamor shots for comparison.
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I'll go 64.
64.
62+. I know the coin looks great over all, but those hits on the obverse are deep and distracting to me.
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63 at best, to my eye, agreeing about the deep & distracting hits. But it seems like a lot of that is tolerated at higher grades, from my observation of other examples. So, I wouldn't be shocked by 65.
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MS63 based on less than stellar pics.
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MS-64 CAC
MS-65 No CAC
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63 RGDS!
The whole worlds off its rocker, buy Gold™.
64 cac 65 no cac
I am guessing 64+ cac
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Looks like an ms64 to me. No sticker unless it's a 63.
Very nice coin.
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Great luster. Great reverse (at minimum, 65). Marks on the neck and not totally hidden in the hair definitely diminish… I’m guessing 64+… Bit on the fence for a sticker, but leaning yes…
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I like it as a 64, NGC would probably call it a 65
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I'll play in the 62 pool.
Don't like the obverse digs. 62 for me.
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63
Mark Feld* of Heritage Auctions*Unless otherwise noted, my posts here represent my personal opinions.
Guess MS 64
64, no bean
She’s pretty but I think 63 no bean. Those hits are deep
63 CAC
The lighting makes the hits look worse then they are in hand. I am not good at taking pictures of coins. The TPG images are not very good either, in my opinion. A lot of credit has to be given to people that can capture, accurately, a picture that represents what the coin looks like in hand.
Thanks to everyone that gave their opinion, all are appreciated.
There are 3 firsts for me, one is this GTG post, two is a + grade and three is a green bean! I didn't buy this coin for the grade or the sticker, I like the way it looks and I got a reasonable deal on this purchase. 63+ green CAC.
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Very nice coin.
It just goes to show how difficult it is to grade a coin from pictures. Okay, the pictures weren’t the greatest, but the range of guesses was 62-65.
I would have said MS-63+ or 64 in the NGC holder.
PCGS graded this one, from the same era. MS-64.
I think that overall, the guesses would have been closer to the assigned graded if the first set of images had been excluded.
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I think that the guesses were all good. And, I will refrain from GTGs unless I have TPG images.
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