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New Member
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Hello This is my first post so feel free to move this if it is in the wrong section. Anyway, I am currently collecting a type set and in search of a Barber half dollar. I did manage to find one1899 barber half graded by PCGS at a resonable price (some of the Barber half dollars are so expensive!). The person's asking price is not crazy but fair. My question is, what grade if any, would you give this coin based on the pictures. The problem is that I do not always trust grading companies and to be honest I am pretty new to coin collecting. But I do know that grading companies and sometimes be wrong. Any help would be appreciated. I just want to make sure that I buy the right coin. I will post what PCGS thought of ths half dollar later. Thank you!   *** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. ***Edited by Silverwolf2016
06/08/2017 7:26 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Rest in Peace
United States
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AU-58 , A few horizontal hair line scratches on obverse .  |
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AU55 scratches and high point wear especially on reverse
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Bedrock of the Community
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AU-55, but not much luster from the pics. Might have had an old dipping.
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United States
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au details - unfortunate about album scratches
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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New Member
 Canada
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Thank you everyone for your opinion! PCGS graded this coin as AU 50. I personally think that the sratches on the front of the coin would have made it a AU details. I am not sure if I should buy this coin...
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Valued Member
United States
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Don't buy the coin if you are not sure. I have done this before with coins and regretted it. You may have to wait, especially with good Barber halves, however they will come along, and you'll be glad you waited. |
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Congrats. Next time, please try to give us at lest 48 hours to reply!   to the CCF! |
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50 seems a little harsh. I'd be at AU-53.
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