GTG: 1926 Oregon Trail Commemorative 50c ***UNC DETAILS***

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constitutional_halve
constitutional_halve Posts: 89 ✭✭✭
edited November 9, 2024 6:37PM in U.S. Coin Forum

I have the grade in hand, any thoughts?

No cheating!

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  • Coinlearner
    Coinlearner Posts: 2,599 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    MS-65

  • 1northcoin
    1northcoin Posts: 5,544 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    MS-64

  • lermish
    lermish Posts: 5,003 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Unc Cleaned

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  • RedRocket
    RedRocket Posts: 1,925 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @constitutional_halve said:
    I have the grade in hand, any thoughts?

    _ No cheating!_

    How can we cheat?

    My guess: MS65.

  • MFeld
    MFeld Posts: 17,132 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    66

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  • MWallace
    MWallace Posts: 4,682 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    66

  • ajaan
    ajaan Posts: 18,005 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    65+


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  • johnny010
    johnny010 Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    66 CAC
    Not familiar with this series but nice luster.

  • jfriedm56
    jfriedm56 Posts: 3,101 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    MS66

  • Mr_Spud
    Mr_Spud Posts: 7,272 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    66

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  • Smudge
    Smudge Posts: 10,001 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    66

  • dcarr
    dcarr Posts: 10,257 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    It seems like a toss-up between three possible outcomes:

    AU58
    MS64
    UNC details (cleaned).

    I'll go with my first guess (AU58).

  • BillJones
    BillJones Posts: 35,935 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    MS-65

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  • pursuitofliberty
    pursuitofliberty Posts: 7,926 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    My first hunch was one point higher, but it looks boinked, so after looking again, I'm going to say 64


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  • CommemDude
    CommemDude Posts: 2,444 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    65

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  • Creg
    Creg Posts: 1,736 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I’ll take the 67.

  • CoffeeTime
    CoffeeTime Posts: 142 ✭✭✭
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    65

  • Windycity
    Windycity Posts: 3,603 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    67

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  • Copperindian
    Copperindian Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    MS65

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  • jesbroken
    jesbroken Posts: 11,252 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    65+, If i ever bought another Silver Commem, it would be an Oregon Trail. Very nice color.
    Jim


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    66

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  • hummingbird_coins
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    62

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  • Cougar1978
    Cougar1978 Posts: 10,067 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 9, 2024 11:07AM
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    MS 66 - Really nice coin. Oregon Trail one of my favorite series. Really nice luster and color on that one. A date set of Oregon Trails a quality project IMO.

    Now if it’s details I am going to be really upset, go to my local liquor store get a bottle of bourbon, mix me a drink.

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  • Morgan13
    Morgan13 Posts: 2,692 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    My favorite commerative.
    It's a nice coin.
    I'll go with MS66+

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  • MICHAELDIXON
    MICHAELDIXON Posts: 6,756 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    66

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  • Avocet
    Avocet Posts: 275 ✭✭✭✭
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    My first impression: 66

  • 7Jaguars
    7Jaguars Posts: 8,019 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I will go 66 also. Why is it that ticks or marks seem to gravitate to the Indian's thigh and the rays of the sun? I don't see rub or bruise or really significant marks on this coin. Very nice.

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  • constitutional_halve
    constitutional_halve Posts: 89 ✭✭✭
    edited November 10, 2024 8:47AM
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    @lermish said:
    Unc Cleaned

    Winner winner chicken dinner.

    I also thought 65+/66 but unfortunately if you tilt the coin just right you can see a handful of hairlines across the surfaces near the peripheral (nothing on the devices, so I figured they were also die scratches)

    Literally someone wiped it with their shirt at some point and cratered this coin. I can't even photograph them, they're so fine. Oh well.

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    @Cougar1978 said:
    MS 66 - Really nice coin. Oregon Trail one of my favorite series. Really nice luster and color on that one. A date set of Oregon Trails a quality project IMO.

    Now if it’s details I am going to be really upset, go to my local liquor store get a bottle of bourbon, mix me a drink.

    The luster on this coin is insane. The strike is barely a 65 IMO, but the luster and frost pops it up to a 66/+

    Unfortunately someone wiped it with their T-shirt at some point :(

    Pour one out for me too buddy.

  • RobertScotLover
    RobertScotLover Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @jesbroken said:
    65+, If i ever bought another Silver Commem, it would be an Oregon Trail. Very nice color.
    Jim

    "very nice color"?
    I need to get your monitor

  • braddick
    braddick Posts: 25,183 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The OP's coin:
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/167049983609
    $245.00

    For $50. more you could have had this one- closed the same day- in MS65:
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/267053858326

    (P & S mints have the same value.)

  • MFeld
    MFeld Posts: 17,132 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @constitutional_halve said:

    @lermish said:
    Unc Cleaned

    Winner winner chicken dinner.

    I also thought 65+/66 but unfortunately if you tilt the coin just right you can see a handful of hairlines across the surfaces near the peripheral (nothing on the devices, so I figured they were also die scratches)

    Literally someone wiped it with their shirt at some point and cratered this coin. I can't even photograph them, they're so fine. Oh well.

    $175 if someone's interested.

    How’ do you know someone wiped the coin with their shirt? Unless you learned that from the person who did it, you don’t.

    Based on your post, I’m not convinced that the cleaning is necessarily limited to the “handful of hairlines”.

    If you want to sell the coin please post those efforts on the Buy, Sell, & Trade - U.S. Coins forum, not here, where it amounts to spam.

    Other than all of the above, I love your posts to this thread. 😉

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  • pursuitofliberty
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    Regardless of my guess on the grade being straight (I questioned that), the coin did look boinked (and am glad to see even the not-so True View could hide it).

    .
    @MFeld is correct in multiple areas, including how the coin has been preserved (or has not been, as the case may be).

    And this Board isn't the BST.

    Education and information is great, and generally this is a good one in that respect, but let's not play the spam and flipper game here.


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    @braddick said:
    The OP's coin:
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/167049983609
    $245.00

    For $50. more you could have had this one- closed the same day- in MS65:
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/267053858326

    (P & S mints have the same value.)

    Not my coin. Not my store.

  • constitutional_halve
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    @pursuitofliberty said:
    Regardless of my guess on the grade being straight (I questioned that), the coin did look boinked (and am glad to see even the not-so True View could hide it).

    .
    @MFeld is correct in multiple areas, including how the coin has been preserved (or has not been, as the case may be).

    And this Board isn't the BST.

    Education and information is great, and generally this is a good one in that respect, but let's not play the spam and flipper game here.

    I edited my post. I was in no way attempting to spam and flip here. My apologies.

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