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WWWWWW Posts: 2,609 ✭✭✭
edited March 6, 2019 1:51PM in World & Ancient Coins Forum
I have been away from coins for a while, but now I'm back. I just won this Hawaiian dollar at the ANA Dallas sale. Let me know what you think of it. image

1883 $1 Hawaii Dollar AU58 NGC. A lovely patina with hues of silver-blue, faint pink, and gold covers this lightly worn coin and areas of mint luster remain clearly visible. This was the largest and most magnificent of the official Kingdom of Hawaii silver coinage and the dollar was also the most heavily melted after the American annexation, leaving comparatively few survivors from the mintage of half a million pieces. Census: 38 in 58, 68 finer

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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,804 ✭✭✭✭✭
    nice- congrats

    Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.

  • YQQYQQ Posts: 3,338 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would say: re-submit it.
    very conservatively graded.. a few nicks.. If maybe another grader sitting there.. his vote could have gone to MS60..
    just guessing at this... but?? maybe worth doing it.
    Today is the first day of the rest of my life
  • ZoharZohar Posts: 6,676 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Someone on the grading side woke up on the wrong side the day he was grading this. stellar piece.
  • WWWWWW Posts: 2,609 ✭✭✭
    Once I get it in hand, I will be better able to tell about the grade. It does indeed appear to be border line MS, but probably an AU58 + at best.
    Getting these dollars into an MS holder is a big jump in value and the grading services seem very reluctant to do so with coins like this.
    Regardless, I love the look of this coin and I am very happy to finally acquire one that does not have the Hawaii tan look to it.
    Speaking of Hawaii, I just got back from my yearly pilgrimage to Kauai and took this image off the Nā Pali coast.

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