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Seated Liberty Half Dollar 1853 P A&r Grade Request

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 Posted 06/24/2021  10:14 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Slider23 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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I want the truth, though, and between the four coins I posted, I'm in it for approximately $5,200. That includes the PCGS grading/restoration piece of this. If the truth is that I was a dumb rookie, I'll reluctantly swallow that.


You are playing in the deep end with lot of sharks buying raw coins online over $1K. I put a limit on my raw coin risk tolerance, and anything over the amount is a NGC or PCGS holder.
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 Posted 06/24/2021  11:01 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Bchill27 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Wow, West. That was a heck of a reply. I'm sorry to hear about your dad and his insurance dropping off. Sad deal. You sound like you've been at this for some serious time. The guy I bought the 1853 O half from was an older man who claims to have been selling coins since the '60s. He claimed he didn't believe the coin had been cleaned. I trusted, foolishly, his assessment and bought the coin. He also claimed it had a doubled die obverse and reverse, but after much investigation, I learned about the common Longacre Doubling. Anyway, they are all cool coins, and I hope I didn't overpay for them, but if I did, it'll be ok. It is a gift for my newborn son, anyway. I wanted something unique, not off a shelf.
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 Posted 07/15/2021  09:52 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Bchill27 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Arrrgh. It came back from PCGS as AU Details, damaged, smoothed surfaces.

This one looked good to me. I don't really know how one goes about smoothing a surface of a 168 year old coin, but two of my five coins submitted came back with that designation. Very frustrating.
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 Posted 07/15/2021  10:21 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add IndianGoldEagle to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
AU details, whizzed. The brush pits are visible in the blow up photos.
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I agree
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