1849 Seated Dollar (Possible Proof) Please Give Me A Opinion

Send that puppy in! or sell it to me :)

Looks like a great coin.

Need better pics.

Good luck on the grading.

Wow! IMO, that coin is a proof. Best of luck! Keep us posted.

VERY cool. Please send it in and let us know how it goes! PCGS all the way, IMO.

PCGS, without a doubt. They've a measurable lead over all others in market reputation; you'll realize a significant resale advantage in a PCGS slab, especially with scarcer issues. Although some issues are closer, in many cases I see price advantages of PCGS slabs amounting to a full grade point or more. PCGS is now slabbing "problem" coins in "Genuine" slabs, thank Goodness. Don't worry about a "Details" grade - at this level, your prospective buyers know how to grade for themselves, thank you very much.

Submit it as a Business Strike. It's tough to tell from the pics - they're a tad unfocused at full size - but I just don't see the sharpness at the rim I'd expect of a Proof. Call the value $9000 (yes, I know this is going to cost you dearly for insurance but the alternative is calling it $35,000 for a Proof).

If this coin makes a graded slab, it's going to be important, Proof or not. There are, to the best of my knowledge, no Prooflike Business Strikes known and barely over one hundred Mint State examples extant (not counting resubmissions).

This will be a risk, whatever your choice.

Where did you get the coin, and how did the seller grade or describe it? Seeing a raw coin like that automatically raises suspicion.

If you are going to make a fake proof coin, it would be best to first polish the dies and the planchets, the same way proofs are produced, to equivalent standard as the proofs of the day.

From an industrial point of view, I do not think that would be too hard to do. I think polishing would be easier than faithfully reproducing detail.