My CBH newp from CSNS Auction - Guess the grade - GRADE REVEALED

JohnnyCache

Hello everyone,

Please allow me to present my latest purchase, a CBH via the recent CSNS auction.

I'm very slowly working towards developing a date set of CBH's, or so that is my long term goal.
Having said that, I clearly have a long way to go, having just three dates collected thus far, a '29, '30 and a '31.
This isn't something that I intend to do in a hurried fashion so I expect it will be some time before the set begins to take shape in earnest.

Relatively speaking, I'm very much still in the infancy of my numismatic journey.
Being that I'm still rather wet behind the ears, my collecting habits thus far have been, for a lack of a better term, a bit scattered you might say.
Currently I have a varied mix of both light side and dark side selections.

Through the process of reading and learning, both here and on my own, I'm tying to become a "better" collector.
My thinking is that piecing together a date set, in a series that I enjoy, might help me in that process, by slowing me down and providing some focus.
It sounds good anyway, we'll see if it works.

Without further delay, it's on to the guessing....

You'll find below both an "in hand view" if you will, though I do not yet have the coin in my possession - it's still in transit, and what I refer to as the "glamour" shot. Not particularly useful in GTG, but it's pretty.

Thank you and enjoy.
JC

joebb21

au58

sparky64

That's as nice as they come.
Eye appeal all day long.
Congrats on your acquisition.

Stuart

Appears to be very eye appealing attractively toned AU-58 from top photos, however looks MS-61 to 62 based upon lower photos which better depict mint luster.

commoncents05

Either AU58 or MS62. Nice eye appeal.

-Paul

lkeigwin

AU58 feels right to me too. NGC may have called it low MS but regardless, it looks very sweet!

A date set is the way a lot of us got started. I remember thinking I'd like them all around the same grade and look. So I was careful to not jump at higher grades for later years that I couldn't manage for the early halves. Of course not everyone shoots for the same goals.

Next came Redbook varieties. Then die marriages. Be careful...bust halves can be very addicting.
Lance.

maibockaddict

Looks like a nice 58 to me as well.

Rollerman

I think it might go mint state, but as othershave said, it's a beaut! Enjoy it!
Pete

david3142

Agree with Stuart. My thought from the first picture was definitely AU58. In the second there is so much luster, I think it would market grade to MS62. I still think I see a touch of rub on the Eagle, but none on the obverse. Beautiful coin!

Davideo

I vote a very nice looking 58.

okiedude

I know the grade, as an early bidder on her. She is beautiful. I'll let the OP spill the beans.
Working on my Redbook set, getting close. There are so many pretty/interesting CBH's it's really hard not to have dupes, cuz I'm well over a 100-LOL!

TopographicOceans

Nice. It could make it to a MS61 perhaps

lava

I'm in the 58 camp. It does not appear to be mint state to me.

BustHalfBrian

Great piece! Looks MS to me, but barely. MS61/62.

Barndog

technical grade 58. Market could be 62

jcping

NGC MS63

drddm

Looks to be MS 62 or 63. Tough to tell from the pics though. Either way, beautiful CBH

lasvegasteddy

sweet example
in the 58 crowd too

JohnnyCache

drddm

Very nice indeed! Congrats on a great pick up

maibockaddict

You paid almost half of what someone paid for that same coin last year. It is also on my site as the 5th best from the last ten years...

1829 O-108a

Stuart

JohnnyCache, The blue peripheral toning pattern on your new 1829 CBH reminds me very much of this 1827 CBH that I purchased from an ANR auction back in June 2006!

1827 NGC AU-58 Toned Capped Bust Half (O-104) Square 2