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Yet another Guess the Grade: 1807 Half dollar!

raysrays Posts: 2,419 ✭✭✭✭✭
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It's PCGS, white. To me, this means it must have dipped at some point as I can't see how a silver coin would remain untoned for 195 years. Take a guess.image Answer in 4 hours.

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  • asnookerasnooker Posts: 246
    BU.......and gorgeous!
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  • greghansengreghansen Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭
    au55

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  • TrimeTrime Posts: 1,863 ✭✭✭
    AU 55.
    Rub on jaw cheek hair and breast (color change).
    Nice strike, luster. Certainly (IMHO) dipped at some time.
    Trime
  • wingedlibertywingedliberty Posts: 4,805 ✭✭✭
    AU53 obverse. Obviously clean, but beautiful. 99% of them have been cleaned. Good luck
    finding one that has not. I like this coin alot.


    Brian.
  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    aaahhhh nice coin. I'll guess AU50.

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  • MrKelsoMrKelso Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭

    AU55


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  • MojoeMojoe Posts: 95
    AU53- neat coin
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  • tjkilliantjkillian Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭
    AU-55, typical open collar strike.

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  • Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭
    AU58 though it may very well be uncirculated.
  • OneYearTypesOneYearTypes Posts: 179
    AU-53, not enough hair detail
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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,429 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Tough call...the coin clearly is not original which is a minus. The 1807's usually are weakly struck and the obverse is a better strike than usual. I would call it EF 45 or at best AU50, however, I am probably being harsh due to originality issues.

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  • morganbarbermorganbarber Posts: 1,821 ✭✭✭
    AU53.
    I collect circulated U.S. silver
  • relayerrelayer Posts: 10,570 ✭

    AU 55
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  • PlacidPlacid Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭
    Hard to guess with only seeing one side.
    I will guess the holder say's au-50.
  • SingaporeSingapore Posts: 578
    I'd say PCGS would call this a 55 or 58. I'll guess 58.

    Re the color, I agree with WingedLiberty's comment. Virutally all silver coins of this era have been cleaned at least once in their lives - some poorly, some well, some long enough ago to retone nicely.
    Singapore
  • raysrays Posts: 2,419 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't have the reverse scanned. There is definite wear on the highest points of Liberty, but a significant amount of mint lustre remains in the devices (which is hard to see in a scan), and the strike is OK for an 1807. To me this coin is therfor appropriately graded at AU55. Jim McGuigan got it for me a few years ago from a Stacks sale raw and had it slabbed.
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  • MrKelsoMrKelso Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭
    Ahhhhhhh right on the button.. Do you need my address to send it to me now image


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