1926 - S Oregon Trail Commemorative Grade Please

Likely mid MS something ... 63-65 at best ...

Impossible to be confident with the photographs provided ... adding another challenge to grading guess by photo.

That said ... welcome to the wonderful world of classic silver commemorative ... and you have indeed shown a wonderful coin.

The Oregon Trail half dollar consistently ranks near the top of all opinion polls for the 'best' of all classic silver commemorative.

Please share what else you have in the series ...

David

Better photos certainly. I need to see if there is a difference on the 26 dies, but from the mushy details in a few areas, especially the lettering, it makes this example suspicious.

I believe I have a fake of this in my black book. Ill pull it and see if there are similarities.

Moxking, I ve read alot about the second line around the center of the sun which is present. But, if you do get a chance and compare that would be awesome.

The new photos lead me to believe that something is not right with this 'coin'.

I'm too tired from a long 16 hour work day to pin-point specifics ... but 10 years of enjoying this series has now caused my 'authenticity' radar to buzz.

I'll come back to this thread later and add specifics of what my eyes see ... unless our other series experts nail it down first.

I'm leaning towards not authentic. Sorry OP

David

Great job everyone, most called it at MS 64!

Beautiful coin and love the design. Late New Year's resolution, try to learn to grade MS commems. Lurk here and see some in hand at shows as much as possible.

Concur .... and I humbly accept my written opinion above from 5 months ago as now corrected.

Congrats to the OP for getting this coin in an MS64 holder.