Trade Dollar In VF Versus AU With Chop Marks

Not yet I am starting to save for them today (I donate plasma twice a week, my coin purchases normally come out of my plasma money but a lot of times I also take a little out of check too for extras) I will have enough saved by the 29th in 2 weeks to get them ($60 this week and $70 next week plus $20 on the 29th and then I'll just kick in the extra). I want to examine them closely before deciding right now I have only looked at them through the case so I haven't seen the reverses. They are also raw (and while I trust the coin shop they have been great to me over the years and are very knowledgeable about what they have) I am going to do a lot of research on how to detect counterfeits. I plan on taking a magnet in with me and they also have a scale there and I will want to weigh them. I am going to go in next Monday to get some good pics of them, that way I have a week to examine the photos as well. A week will also give me a chance to detect which ones I like more after examining the photos.

If I were just buying one to not put in my type set I would totally go with the AU with chop marks and send it off to get certified. But since its for my type set I am kind of leaning towards the vf problem free. But I need to examine them more first and I need to decide if the extra detail is worth the detraction of the chop marks in my type set. heck I might eventually get both if I like them both and send the AU off to be certified.

If you can, why not?

I would tend to go with the VF w/o chopmarks. Mainly because alot of my older coins (especially the Seated dollars and other pricier coins) in my 7070 tend to be around VG+ to VF and if it was AU it might awkwardly stand out against some of my other coins. Also I would prefer to not have any marks, PMD, or dings to coins if possible (although chopmarks are obviously common on Trade dollars). Plus as an added bonus you would have $35 that you saved to spend on another nice coin!

I'll be going into examine them next Monday, I actually could get it early if I wanted because I just had my own little ebay windfall that would pay for one of the coins but I might leave that in my paypal account for ebay coins and Christmas purchases. Spaceace I am trying to put the nicest type set together I can, so a VF Trade dollar will look odd on that page with a MS Peace and Morgan. I likely will end up with Vf or XF liberty Seated dollars but eventually down the road I might upgrade those since you have a good coin to trade in on a upgrade.

I went in and took some photos, I am not that great of a photog though so was still having trouble verifying them. I did print out a way to detect counterfeits and what to look for. The weight was .92 troy ounces for both coins problem is I weighed them in the 2x2's, so when I go back in on Monday I am going to ask if I can remove one from the 2x2 since they were the same weight and reweigh it.

I am leaning towards the VF, I am going to examine both close and look for all the counterfeit issues and then reweigh and decide if its real then.

VF