Opinions on this 1928 Peace dollar

ksteelheader

Grade opinions please. Don't hold back. The coin is a friends, not mine....Ken
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darktone

Harshly cleaned

fcloud

It looks just like that dipped coin in the other thread. Hm, must be MS65!

DHeath

The neck is heavily hairlined. I doubt it would holder at PCGS, but ANACS would likely holder it AU net something.

nankraut

AU-50...cleaned/dipped

Dave99B

Cleaned - hairlines.

Dave

ms70

Ditto.....

jonesy

Tough Crowd!!!

ksteelheader

Tough Crowd!!! ...Hey, I might as well join them!!! For a six-pack of Guiness I'll reveal the name of the owner..... ...Ken

stman

<< <i>Don't hold back. The coin is a friends, not mine....Ken >>



So are you saying if it indeed was your's, we should hold back?

itsnotjustme

Looks cleaned.

ksteelheader

So are you saying if it indeed was your's, we should hold back? ...Absolutely not!! This is the trouble with the printed word. It just doesn't always come out the way you meant it!!!!...Ken

stman

ksteelheader, Perhaps you did not see my wink?

Blackhawk

It looks like it was either lightly circulated or possibly wiped at one time. I believe that it was probably dipped also, but don't consider it to be a big issue unless it's overdipped enough to effect the lustre. Collectors who think that all those old brilliant white coins that they own are original are not facing reality.

merz2

The next question is would it get into a PCGS holder ? Because it is a Key date would they overlook the cleaning ?

dollardude

<< The next question is would it get into a PCGS holder ? Because it is a Key date would they overlook the cleaning ? >>

My guess is that PCGS will overlook the cleaning on this, since it is a key date. They tend to be more lenient on key dates. They will likely give it a low MS grade.

ksteelheader

Perhaps this may sound strange, but is it not the same coin, cleaned or not? I sometimes have some very mixed feelings about views on cleaning! Its still the same chunk of metal that was pressed between two dies at the same time....Ken
stman, yes, I saw your wink. Just wanted to make the point, though, that what you read sometimes isn't exactly what an individual may have really meant....Thanks, Ken

DHeath

Ken, I don't mean to say the coin isn't collectible, but in our shared hobby the difference in $50 and $5000 is TINY. Look at the PCGS price guide of a 25-S in 64 and 65. If you owned both, they'd have possibly both been from the same silver shipment and pressed by the same dies.

Below are two angles of the same coin. Notice the luster looks like the 28 you pictured in the first pic of mine.

darktone

this coin would not slab at PCGS or NGC. mike

Peaceman

Ken,

I've seen this coin on ebay no so long ago as I remember the squiggle above the "IN GOD WE" (the reason I passed). As a collector of ONLY this date/series (Yes, this is the only coin I collect) I've seen a fair share of this key date. My guess is that I've looked at over 500 1928 Peace dollars in NGC/PCGS holders over the last few years.

Most 1928' that have been slabbed by PCGS are off white/dull white, yellow or have some other unappealing look to them (I disagree with Dollardude, I think just the oppisite. PCGS is NOT going to look lightly at a key date). I'd say out of the 500 I've looked at only 5-8% are really nice, blast white with minimal marks (What I bought over the last few years). I've found that of the 3 dies the mint used that year, the die you can identify with the mark just to the right of the "B" and the ray on the obverse tends to be the coin that is blast white and in a PCGS holder.

The coin you have, without looking at it, looks like a lock MS63, it is NOT AU (The shoulder and toe area have no wear). As far as cleaning, it's hard to tell. I'd submit it to PCGS.

XpipedreamR

Looks totally cleaned/AU, but I don't think the coin is unattractive.

Placid

62

KollectorKing

I like it, especially the reverse...blast white luster. I'd defer to Peaceman MS63 (pq) or on a good day MS64.

au58

I concur that the reverse looks nicer than the obverse. The obverse (especially the high points) looks like it might have been polished. The reverse looks nice. However, since the coin is in a 2x2 cardboard holder and since the picture was taken through the mylar, who knows for sure what is coin, plastic, or camera?

dorkkarl

ms-61 in a slab.

K S

greghansen

Wow. Tough crowd! That thing doesn't look cleaned to me. It it was, I guess I like cleaned coins. Looks MS64 to me. Strike a little soft...but wouldn't look out of place in a 64 slab.

dorkkarl

w/ that many hairlines on the neck, etc, it's definitely been wiped.

K S

morganbarber

I agree that the coin may have been cleaned harshly enough to get bagged. It is, to me, very attractive nonetheless. I think that the strike is good and the luster more apparent than most Peace dollars I have a chance to look at. If I wanted it holdered, I would probably send it to ANACS, just to be safe. I like it a lot.