1936-S Texas Commemorative Half Dollar

You stated you got this for melt; you got the deal of the year IMHO. Texas is very collectible and way above melt.

I do not see anything that jumps out at me as fake but I am newer to commemoratives so don't bet the bank on me. If authentic, it looks to be uncirculated to me. Search ebay and teletrade past auctions and you can get an idea of what people are paying for these.

Oh, and POST MORE PICS!

Cheers

For the price you paid youd still be way ahead if you got them graded and they came back basically anything but fake. Theyre about an 80 dollar coin or so in VF and those pictures look nicer than that.

Thanks for the responses!! I have looked up a few things to try to verify their authenticity and have found nothing that jumps out at me. I have thought about getting them graded just for the reassurance of knowing the exact grade which could help to know more closely as to a value. I decided to keep one of each so I have posted this one on ebay, which is why I only have a picture of this one. The auction is at $200+, so I guess there are at least a few people that see this coin as being fairly high grade. This does make me wonder even more what the grade on the others are since I deemed this one to be slightly inferior to the other two. I would have loved to keep all 3 of them, but the cash will help out much more as my wife and I are expecting our first child and even before she didn't like that I try to keep all the coins I get.




I was very surprised to learn that these would have been melted otherwise. It makes me wonder how many valuable coins just get melted down instead of realizing their true monetary potential. Most of the coins I get from my friend aren't worth much above melt, but I still like to save them even if I never make any money on them.

As far as having them graded, I am still considering it. I have never sent anything off to be graded, so I don't even know the best or cheapest route to follow to get it done.




I'll try to get some pics tonight of the other two just to see what everyone thinks of those.

There is nothing I'm seeing in your images that immediately makes me think your coin is a counterfeit â€" but I do wish your images weren't so "bright" as subtle (and potentially critical) details on a coin are lost when they are lighted this way.

Approximately 9,000 each of the 1936 Texas coins (P, D and S) were struck, making them among the more common coins of the multi-year series; they are also similarly priced in the marketplace. Unless graded at the very high end of the MS scale (i.e., MS-67 or above) mint state 1936 Texas coins are easily found and can often be purchased in the range of $125 to $350 (depending on the specific grade and overall eye appeal).

From your images, it would appear that your coin is a mint state example (but I could be missing something due to the glare/lighting). If your coin is, in fact, in mint state condition and grades in the range of MS-60 to MS-64, the cost of getting it graded might not be worth it. By this I mean, if you don't get the coin graded and sell it at the market value for an MS-60 coin (regardless of its potentially higher grade), your net profit will likely be the same as if you sell it as a third-party graded MS-64 coin once you subtract the costs for grading and the postage to send in/receive back the coin from the grading service.

The economics change once the coin is graded MS-65 or higher. From your images, however, I can't say whether your coin would grade at least MS-65. Maybe others here on CCF can, or maybe a local coin dealer could help.

Just my thoughts...

You can search for PCGS dealers on their website here. I cant vouch for how good any of them are though not being from there

http://www.pcgs.com/dealers/