Need help grading this 1812 Half Eagle

Comments

• robkool Posts: 5,934 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 30, 2008 12:17PM

  AU53... Some luster still left on that classic piece. NICE !!!

  Ebay items for sale Current BIN's / The Kingdom Collection

  0
• RYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 30, 2008 12:23PM

  VF cleaned
  

  My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132

  0
• pcgs69 Posts: 4,346 ✭✭✭✭

  June 30, 2008 12:32PM

  Surfaces look a bit odd, but I'd say 40-45

  0
• Baley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 30, 2008 3:23PM

  It's tough to net grade the heavily tooled surfaces... might be circulation chatter and then cleaned but the marks between the stars and the rims especially bother, make me think someone really went to town in an attempt to repair, probably, graffitti.
  
  anyway, I think it's real but could be wrong on that too. Neat old coin, wonderful in any grade
  
  grade opinion? VF25 details net VG10.

  Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  0
• PerryHall Posts: 46,739 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 30, 2008 7:59PM

  VF30 cleaned. Obverse appears to have more detail than the reverse.

  Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
  "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
  "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  0
• JZrarities Posts: 2,583 ✭✭✭

  June 30, 2008 9:55PM

  XF 40 details
  Cleaned
  Net VF

  0
• BECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭

  June 30, 2008 11:34PM

  Heavily cleaned net XF40
  
  You would expect to see hairlines and a few nicks here and there at this grade.

  0
• CoinRaritiesOnline Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭✭

  July 1, 2008 12:49AM

  The coin was either in a bezel, or it was purposely "pinged" (my term) to cover tooling/repairs.
  
  The coin is still worth in the 4 figures, but unless PCGS or NGC misses it (EXTREMELY unlikely), it will not slab.
  
  Still -- enjoy the coin for what it is. It is a high sharpness example of a very desirable early US gold coin.

  John Agre
  
  Coin Rarities Online

  0
• rhedden Posts: 6,631 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 1, 2008 12:58AM

  VF35 details, surfaces cleaned and lightly smoothed, perhaps to remove environmental damage. You can see that the roughness disappears in the protected areas, such as around the date and stars. I wonder if this coin was perhaps salvaged from a shipwreck site in salt water/sand, where it acquired some light surface abrasions. Still a nice example of an early half eagle that should net-grade somewhere around VF20.

  0
• TomB Posts: 21,998 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 1, 2008 9:48AM

  It's been whizzed or has had its surfaces otherwise completely destroyed.

  Thomas Bush Numismatics & Numismatic Photography
  
  In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
  
  

  0
• CharlotteDude Posts: 3,148 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 1, 2008 9:59AM

  Looks ex-jewelry to me... has that "sweated" look. It's been cleaned too, much like any jewelry piece.
  
  I grade it EF40 details, net F-12.
  
  C'dude

  Got Crust....y gold?

  0
• JRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 1, 2008 11:08AM

  One look at that obverse pic should tell any gold collector worth his dust that this coin has been boinked.
  Not just cleaned....boinked.
  Good call Baley.

  Some coins are just plain "Interesting"

  0
• keets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 1, 2008 12:16PM

  good call by the guys ahead of me, BECOKA, TomB and JRocco.
  
  i think the dead give-away is that the area just around the devices/lettering is untouched and the devices/lettering all look rounded where they meet the fields. what a sad demise for an otherwise nice coin.

  0