1795 "Flowing Hair" Half-Dime - Please Help Grade/Evaluate!

Excellent detective work. It validates our VG-8 suggestions.

Actually I really, REALLY appreciate it...i just found quite a few coins that I am now in possession of & their old auction records haha!... really exiting stuff you found!! Quite a few of those pieces will be re-sold soon by me, and now I have grades, varieties, original sale prices & more!

Bravo OLcoins! Bravo.

Absolutely needs to certified to sell to anyone. There were dangerous counterfeits that surfaced of this piece that made their way to Canada and the USA via Lebanon in the late 70s and early 80s. For that reason alone it needs to be in a TPG holder even if it ends up getting a details grade. I am NOT saying yours is not real just that to get top dollar gotta be certified.

I appreciate the input & grades guys, But I believe we have already confirmed a VG8 - CLEANED & naturally re-toned. The way we've done this, is *OLcoins has found the exact coin, previously sold by Heritage auctions in 2000. I am not saying the coin is TPG certified at that grade, but Heritage is known for being extremely accurate and sometimes even conservative when consigning pieces. It was sold back in 2000, as part of the Piedmont collection. I now have quite a few of those coins, and will be selling them off through the next little while...hopefully to appreciating U.S collectors...(CCF MEMBERS IDEALLY...)
I do however appreciate the input, and any other suggestions/comments!!

I feel as tho my buyer would get a much better deal buying the piece raw, and slabbing it himself. At this current time, I would accept, and sell the piece for around 80% of G6 money...(1k U.S +/-).
if it were in a VG8 slab, I would be inclined to sell it at VG8 money, especially after incurring the extra costs of shipping & slabbing. The fact it is a flowing hair, leads me to believe NGC or PCGS would want quite a bit of money to slab it...no?

Any ideas on rough cost to slab this beast? I am located in Calgary, AB, and would likely send less than 20 coins for slabbing along with this one. (All U.S).. I have a few capped busts and Morgans that should be boxed...
i would want a reletivly quick turnaround, with a fully insured ride.

Anyone care to ballpark it?

Thanks for the info! I don't feel as tho $40 U.S would cover it...
as far the the dealer in calgary that you're referring to that is currently submitting to U.S TPG's has forever lost my business. There is only one Calgary dealer I associate with, and unfortunately he does not submit anything, ever.

my biggest issue with sending it to a U.S TPG, is that I will only send this coin via FedEx, fully insured. This costs around $60 a trip alone, and that's if I get tricky with the customs declaration....
so that's $100+, just in shipping, plus another $50+ trip to my buyer.
We're taking hundreds just to move the coin back and fourth, and understandably, this will impact my buyers final cost...
Also, I'd like to refer to the old saying "time is money", and simply don't want to wait weeks for turnarounds.

Once this piece is sold, I have lots of other pieces to work on, I just want a quick sale basically... the Heritage auction archive is a really a gem for me, as it is an extremely rare occurrence that Heritage would auction off a counterfeit/misgraded coin, especially of this value..


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Thanks for all the info/comments/suggestions guys!! Keep it comming!!

I feel as tho there is some sarcasm behind your good luck comment, but I appreciate the luck either way!!

I wasn't disagreeing with you, nor was I saying your advice was bad. I absolutely agree something of this value SHOULD BE certified. All I was saying, is that it is not worth the time, effort, and money to certify the coin. You have to agree, that sending to U.S TPG'S is a PITA. Now ICCS/CCCS is a different story but of course you know, an ICCS flip is as good as last weeks newspaper to a U.S buyer..

And if you are referring to the 2 gentleman I think you are that are Calgary dealers, (SW & RK), then yes....outstanding gentleman, that I highly respect....
Unfortunately, neither are submitting anything.

I'll echo jimbucks comments regarding Great Collections. Their fees are very reasonable and with the leg work they do, you can't go wrong. My honest opinion, knowing it is a problem coin, is that you have a $750 USD coin retail once authenticated by a major TPG.