can anyone venture a grade for THIS seated dollar?

1907Quarter

originality? how's that shield? overall obverse detail? 1871

nwcs

Harshly cleaned

Baley

looks genuine, yes cleaned, but not dinged up or nasty toned as some of these come, I think seated dollars are tougher than most people realize, this one would fill a hole in a midgrade set until a better comes along, certainly worth the opening bid, probably will close between 100 and $150.

thanks for the lead, will watch this one and perhaps snipe it.

topstuf

Looks scrubbed, but for grade, a F15
Kinda dark scan. But VF looks to be a stretch.

ARCO

Reverse looks like a solid VF. Obverse seems to have a big patch worn away from LIBERTY negating even a technical Fine. Overall detail looks like a F15-VF20

Tyler

coinkat

pass on this one

lordmarcovan

Yeah- definitely a VF reverse. Obverse about Fine, though I wouldn't put a "+" after the grade. As to having been harshly cleaned or scrubbed, I just don't see it... but then, I often don't. (One of my weaker points, I'm afraid).

Looks OK to me, even taking into account the dislike others have for it. I tried to find reasonably-priced circulated Seated dollars in the $100-120 range at the ANA show, and let me tell you, it was a futile effort. I found maybe two coins I liked and they were very stiffly priced. The rest were overpriced AND not very nice- very harshly cleaned, baggy, etc. Had I seen that one, and had it been priced realistically, I probably would have bought it. I did buy a Seated dollar, an 1871 in about that grade, but not for the purpose I'd originally intended. (The coin I bought was in about that grade but holed and crudely plugged- I might sell it or pop the plug out and put it on my Holey Coin Vest- for forty bucks, I couldn't pass it up.) I never did buy a nice problem-free G-F Seated dollar 'cause I never found one. I was looking for Trade dollars in similar grades and ended up buying a cheap VF with a rim bump- nice circ Trade dollars were similarly tough. I heard two dealers lamenting about the shortage and fast sellouts of any decent circ 20-cent pieces, too, but three tables down from them I was pleased to pick up a very nice Fine '75-S, at a reasonable price. (Got a holed one for the vest, too- dirt cheap! I found some of the tougher holed coins I needed- got an 1806 Draped half for the vest...for a song!, and added two gold dollars to my Holey Gold Hat)

That coin might have been cleaned, but at least it looks to have retoned a bit. And the starting bid certainly looks reasonable.