Care to Share Your Opinion on this 1822 Bust Half Dollar

seemyauction

I'm interested in your opinions on this 1822 Bust Half.

Grade, tone, variety, surfaces, eye appeal........all opinions welcome

kieferscoins

I don't like the color on this one. Possibly cleaned and retoned....a great example how this is the type of coin that needs to be seen in person. We could speculate here all day.

Cameron Kiefer

LanLord

<< <i>I don't like the color on this one. Possibly cleaned and retoned....a great example how this is the type of coin that needs to be seen in person. We could speculate here all day. Cameron Kiefer >>

cigarette smoke?

Steve27

I would say cleaned and retoned but will still slab at any of the major services, and as for grade AU50.

ricko

What Cameron said.... ok for a hole filler at a bargain price... otherwise, pass. Cheers, RickO

jdillane

AU details. Care to describe the surfaces? She does look funky but that could be the image. A little narrative from you would go a long way to assist.

doh

AU details for sure, but something unappealing is going on with those surfaces....

maibockaddict

If that is precisely how it looks, then I would question as to how it got that way. Was the coin re-toned to hide something? Are the colors in the pics off a little and it looks more natural in hand? Of course, the right environmental conditions can do things to coins that may make the coin artificial when it is indeed natural, but difficult to prove. It does have AU details...

Yes I would pass unless I viewed it in hand and gave it a very close inspection.

Alan, is it slabbed?

MikeInFL

<< <i>I don't like the color on this one. Possibly cleaned and retoned....a great example how this is the type of coin that needs to be seen in person. We could speculate here all day. >>



+1

In short, I think the OP can do better...Mike

MillerJW

AU details, really looks cleaned with lots of small scrates on the fields. Not fond of the piss yellow toning on the reverse. Would make a good fit if i were putting together a cheap album of cleaned ok looking coins...

Oh and did the eagle get hit on top of the head with a baseball bat???

lordmarcovan

<< <i>I'm interested in your opinions on this 1822 Bust Half.

Grade, tone, variety, surfaces, eye appeal........all opinions welcome >>



Grade- nice. Easy AU details, I would say.

Tone- not quite so nice. I agree with Cameron- I don't care for the tobacco brown toning, nor for what looks like fingerprints on the obverse. That being said, I don't hate it... I just don't love it, either. It does look like secondary toning from an old cleaning. I note how it was disturbed in places.

Variety- I will leave that to the specialists.

Surfaces- look pretty decent. Can't swear they are original, though, if that is what you meant. In fact, I doubt they are.

Eye appeal- see my comments on the toning. Otherwise it would be nice. To me personally, the toning pulls it down into the "so-so" category at best. But others may feel differently.

In summary?

Eh. It's OK. Not horrible, not terrific. The sharp details are its strong point. The toning is its weak point, as I see it.

JMHO.


Now, here's a statement that will probably have the townspeople outside my door with flaming torches and pitchforks, waving nooses.

If that were already mine, and I had not invested a lot of money in it, I would dip it. Again. Yup. And hope for better retoning. Which of course would be numismatic Russian roulette.

OK, no, I might not dip it again. But I would be tempted.

mozin

AU details. Unattractive artificial toning. O-101 R1, which is the so called 1822/1.

seemyauction

It was listed on a web site as AU details, old cleaning, & retoned for 195.......

I pulled the trigger but the dealer notified me that it was already sold.............