My First Piece Of Charlotte Gold

Here is the first set of photos taken under direct light. Every hairline, scruff and abrasion is overly emphasized beyond reality, but there is more detail in the pics. I think I like the 1st set better, even with less detail, I think it is more representative of the coin overall. thoughts?

AU53 sounds right to me. Looks well struck except for the C!

I would love to own some Charlotte gold, any Charlotte gold

Good strike for Charlotte. Pretty banged up as most of these are, I think it graded AU-53.

Very tough call, as I just refreshed by looking at some over on Heritage. This one appears to be around AU55 to MS62, there are some MS62 that on Heritage that look more worn, and some AU coins that appear to be mid range MS. The "C" is weakly struck when comparing to others, this is the second most common Charlotte gold coin, so I'd imagine that many are in the AU/MS range.

I've gotta go with MS60/61 on this one hopefully no details for the scratches.

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Congrats to zxcccxz and BH1964. I think they may have net graded it a bit for the weak C, or perhaps an old dip...cuz it does seem to compare with higher grades.

lol....the last pic was actually the seller's pic, while the rest were mine. oh well.
Doing some research, this is actually the rarest variety....variety 3. All of the variety 3s had a weak shallow "C" in the die that was used....so this is common of that variety. Not sure iof the value should be higher than the others because of the rarity of the variety, or lower than the others because of the weakness in the C.....but I feel that I paid a decent price for it at $2650 shipped.

My goal is to put together a complete mintmark set of AU+ $5 liberty eagles. What is interesting about the $5 liberty is that it is the ONLY coin that makes use of every mint used to make US circulating coinage, including, dahlonega, charlotte, carson city, denver, san francisco, new orleans and philadelphia....so it is the ideal piece for a complete mintmark type set. I also own a n 1848-D AU50 PCGS, so I have the 2 most difficult ones out of the way. Now to move onto Carson City and New Orleans, which are the second most challenging. Pretty much all new orleans $5 liberty's are scarce, with the 1909-O actually being the most common; even though it is one of the most expensive.