Received: 1822 NGC AU-55 Capped Bust Half Dollar -- Blazing Golden Mint Luster & Gorgeous -- WOW
Stuart
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Here's a new 1822 Capped Bust Half that I purchased at auction tonight.
How do you like her from a strike, luster and preservation state perspective??
These are the original seller's auction photos...
1822 Capped Bust Half
How do you like her from a strike, luster and preservation state perspective??
These are the original seller's auction photos...
1822 Capped Bust Half
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
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I have no problem with the looks of your purchases though.
Lava: I really enjoy this specific series, and feel that high eye-appealing CBH's in choice AU grades are a true numismatic bargain, and the series is fun to learn about. I also like the fact that these old lettered edge busties were struck from screw press dies, with lots of varieties, as well as striking and luster variations.
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
it seems in great shape for the age. i bet the price would
shock me.
very nice coin.
1822 :
March 30 - Florida becomes a United States territory.
Galileo Galilei's Dialogue taken off the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the Roman Catholic Church's list of banned books.
First group of freed slaves from USA arrive to modern-day Liberia and founded Monrovia.
Born:
April 27 - Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (d. 1885)
July 22 - Gregor Mendel, Austrian geneticist (d. 1884)
October 4 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (d. 1893)
December 10 - César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (d. 1890)
December 27 - Louis Pasteur, French microbiologist and chemist (d. 1895)
<< <i>Thanks guys for your always astute and helpful comments, as I continue to build up my knowledge of Capped Bust Halves. I think that this lady is very pretty, and I love the full strike with sharp radial lines in each star!!
Lava: I really enjoy this specific series, and feel that high eye-appealing CBH's in choice AU grades are a true numismatic bargain, and the series is fun to learn about. I also like the fact that these old lettered edge busties were struck from screw press dies, with lots of varieties, as well as striking and luster variations. >>
Stuart I agree with you as to the variations. Die breaks and the like sure make for some interesting stuff to look at, much more so than coins made to perfection.
I would greatly appreciate if some of you would please post your recent Capped Bust Half pricing obervations for collector grades AU-55, AU-58, and MS-60 to 62 to provide us with a bit of recent years pricing background for these interesting coins.
I am also referring to the PCGS Price Guide for retail pricing reference background information on a date by date and variety basis. Please advise on any other useful public CBH Pricing references.
Thanks!!
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
<< <i>I would greatly appreciate if some of you would please post your recent Capped Bust Half pricing obervations for collector grades AU-55, AU-58, and MS-60 to 62 >>
Regardless of what any price guides/sheets say Bust Halfs graded AU58 by PCGS and to a lesser degree NGC that are nice and original or "market acceptable nice" (meaning dipped and have retoned in an eye appealing way) sell regularly for incredible premiums. You can expect to pay MS63 money for a good, eye appealing AU58, possibly more if the right collectors are fighting you for it. In my admittedly less than experienced opinion the grade of AU55 is an incredible deal financially. Many AU55's are simply stunning coins but they do not garner the premiums or attention that AU58's do.
Have you ever considered changing your forum nickname to "Bust-iator"??
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
By the way, although intentionally not previously mentioned, this pretty 1822 Capped Bust Half has been certified and graded NGC AU-55.
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
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<< <i>anyone know off hand how many of these were minted?
it seems in great shape for the age. i bet the price would
shock me.
very nice coin. >>
Mintage was somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,559,573
That is one sweet Bust half. I own several similar pieces myself (most are NGC 53-58).
A lot of Bust material can be pretty ugly (either dipped white, or with unattractive toning gray). This one is not in that group. Contrats!
Dave
<< <i>feel that high eye-appealing CBH's in choice AU grades are a true numismatic bargain, >>
Again, if they have the right "Look" you're probably not going to get any "Bargains" on these.
If you are looking for bargains, you might find some in your eyes, but there just might be a reason for said bargain.
Of course as they say, everybody has different tastes as far as eye-appeal, and surface preservation.
JMWO..... Enjoy!
I purchased this pretty lady last night on Teletrade for $486 shipped, which seemed about right to me price-wise, if the coin looks as nice in person as it does in the photos.
Does that sound like about the right market price for (what I feel is) an eye-appealing NGC AU-55??
1822 NGC AU-55 Capped Bust Half
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
So now you mention you got it on TT and not counting the juice, I was in there. I just don't like quoting pricing
in a thread unless someone asks. Which is why I didn't mention it earlier.
Wait till the variety bug gets you on these Stuart and before you know it you are buying your tenth 27 half
<< <i>always look for the dirt on these coins. LIBERTY is another great hiding spot for that dirt as the original cleaner probably did not want to dig into the obverse too hard to get all the crud >>
Another place to look is in the edge lettering.
Barry: In reply to your above quoted post, there certainly is a potential collecting conflict between purchasing certified slabbed Lettered Edge coins such as Bust Halves and Bust Dollars for third party authentication and grading, versus purchasing raw coins for which we can admire all 3 sides (Obverse, Reverse & Edge) of the coin.
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
<< <i>Wait till the variety bug gets you on these Stuart and before you know it you are buying your tenth 27 half >>
All I can say is HE BETTER NOT!!!!!
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
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The obverse looks as lustrous as the photo below, and the reverse has equivalent luster to the obverse (i.e. better than the rev photo). The darker area at 9:00-10:00 at stars 3-5 on the photo, must be a shadow, because it is not at all visible on the coin in hand.
WOW !!!
1822 NGC AU-55 Capped Bust Half
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
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Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"