Impluse Buy $2.50 And $1.00 Gold

I'll offer my own opinion while we're waiting for an expert. The Indian looks to have incidental striations, not from cleaning but possibly from being dragged over a tablecloth or something. Don't know what a TPG would think about it, but they don't bother me a bit.

A TPG might wimp out but I personally see no reason to think either have circulated. The $1 is more iffy than the $2.50. That makes the Indian a decent premium above melt, and the $1 probably a $500+ coin (that's the going rate in high AU, much less Mint State).

I wouldnt have thought twice about buying that for that price. Gorgeous coin still! If some one would sell them for that around here, I'd have a couple

Love the one dollar gold piece, still a hole in my 7070.

Having extensively collected the Gold Dollar series....the coin looks suspicious. Especially the raised lumps on the nose. I was fooled twice by fakes....they ARE that good. Though I'm not a fan of slabbed colonials, gold dollars NEED to be TPG authenticated. If you insist on buying unslabbed gold get the Counterfeit Detection books to let you understand what to look for.

I do have PCGS's Counterfeit Detection book, and I have looked through the book and see nothing specific. It does say that one and three dollar coins are commonly faked, To me there is also a lot of real ones.

When I got home this afternoon, I looked at it with a 10X glass, I see no raised bumps on the nose. there is a hit on the face close to the nose.

My picture taking skills are not that good, but in this case, I think the one dollar coin is not quite as good as it looks in my picture.

There is a good expert in the Mobile Al, next time I am in that area .. or see him at a coin show I will have him check it out.

I have no problem buying slabbed coins .. or raw coins.

Because I have a good relationship with a few local dealers, and buy a lot of coins, I think I get many coins at dealer to dealer price.

I paid $125.00 for the 1854 $1.00

Again I want to thank everyone for posting .. everyone's opinions give us something to check out .

$125 is ridonk on that coin for a price...well done, I too am envious...

I would agree high Au on the gold dollar, these often have weak strikes on the reverses as this coin does. If its still got the luster required it might make mint state.

Both coins appear genuine with the G$1 really looking good. The only concern I have is questioning why a coin shop would sell these coins for far under their actual value.

Being conservative and going from the images only I'd call the G$2.50 a AU+ details piece worth about $225. The G$1 appears MS or very close to it and free of problems to boot; a $250 piece minimum.