I feel like the color on this lightly circulated 1917 half-dollar would be market acceptable
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Your opinion? I grade this EF-45 in-hand.
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Short answer is probably.
Looks good to me
Mr_Spud
NT to my eyes
Dave
Looks accelerated to these eyes and low AU. Might slab
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Looks like an AU and I don't like the color, but it ins't me you have to worry about.
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Maybe not MA, but it's pretty
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Strong chance it would be rejected as AT. The encrustation on the reverse makes me suspect it was cleaned at one time.
The surfaces look strange to me especially in the fields. Almost like very dark toning on the verge of pitting was dipped off. Which also muted the luster considerably.
Though attractive, the coin looks AT to me.
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I like it for its beauty. But would not submit.
Jim
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AU 55 wear.
I’ve seen walkers tone like that in the blue Whitman albums, but agree probably cleaned at some point. Can’t really tell about the surfaces for sure, but many of the walkers from the first two years had pebbly, matte surfaces. Not certain if that’s the case here or not.
A decent album coin, not worth submitting, in my opinion.
I would not spend the money to submit that coin.
Theyll AT "questionable color" that at pcgs
The color looks very odd to me.
It’s better than XF. It’s a low to mid range AU.
I wouldn’t bother sending it in. It’s not worth it.
Stick it in an album and enjoy it.
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At first glance, the colors look a bit too pale to me, and generally off. Whether the colors are AT, the coin was cleaned (which led to the toning), or both, I'm not confident it would straight grade.
Pretty pastel toning but I also think our hosts will not look favorably on it. I'm seeing AU details and suspect toning... perhaps subsequent to a cleaning or dip. I'd put it in my album and find one already certified if you need to have one in plastic.
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First reaction was ‘uhhhm, no’
Should 58 based on pics.
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AU details. PVC….looks like it spent some time in a soft flip. Acetone bath. That’s likely the wrong assessment ( but I am going by feel)
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Where do you think you see PVC? Or do you just “feel” it?
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The surfaces of the skirt and breast feathers both have a slight greenish hue that looks like and makes me feel as though I have seen it before.
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Now that you drew my attention to it, and I'm on my laptop with a bigger monitor, I see a slight greenish hue. Not sure if it's PVC but it might have been the reason for the "cleaning or dip"... good eye!
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I see it in the AU spectrum. I do have some concerns about the color and whether the image captures the coin. I think it is close to perfect for an album set.
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Some new photos below using a different light bulb and different lighting angle. Unfortunately, it's already in a 2x2 and I don't want to remove it so these pics are affected by that slightly.
Someone mentioned it above - the coin was indeed extracted from a Whitman type coin album.
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Much better and acceptable..
The blue tone is likely a result of the blue Whitman folder.
Still not sure it’s worth submitting from a financial point of view, unless you just want it in a holder. That would be up to you.
It looks like a nice coin.
Too bad it’s not a branch mint.
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I think the obverse looks more acceptable in the new pictures. However, the reverse looks more AT to me.
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PCGS has sent me back more "Questionable Color" judgments than I expected to get in the last few years. I suspect they are upping their strictness since the onset of CACG grading, but that's just my suspicion and I don't have enough samples to make that assertion with strong conviction.
However, on this coin I feel like they'll strongly lean toward a details grade, and they make take the easy route by saying "environment damage" due to the marks previously mentioned or, perhaps, due to the divot above the "OF" on the reverse. Same outcome, maybe an easier path for the graders.
Best of luck to the OP in whatever course they choose.
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