A Circulated Trifecta

[cameron12x]

A circulated trifecta from early New Orleans.

 

 

Thoughts on grades?

[BillJones]

Dime - VF-35 to EF-40 range.

 

Half Dollar - The color is odd in the photo, but assumming it is natural EF-45 if no luster is present to AU-55 if the coin has a lot of luster between the letters. The picture tells me nothing about luster is necessary for the AU grade, even with this level of sharpness.

 

Quarter Eagle - VF-20

 

This is a nice, interesting group of coins.

[cameron12x]

The half dollar does have a somewhat odd color in hand. Perhaps a little less odd than what the photo depicts. It has definitely been cleaned and perhaps some very minute tooling has been done to clean off some old gunk in a couple of places. I believe the obverse shows XF-45+ details and the reverse AU-50+ details. I wish it were problem-free.

 

I really like this trio as they represent the first-year of issue at New Orleans for each of the respective denominations (if you exclude the extremely rare 20-mint count of the 1838-C half).

 

Interestingly enough, multiply the dime by five and you get fifty cents. Multiply the half dollar by five and you get two and one-half dollars.

[L1ncolnF4n]

Dime - VF-35 to EF-40 range.

 

Half Dollar - The color is odd in the photo, but assumming it is natural EF-45 if no luster is present to AU-55 if the coin has a lot of luster between the letters. The picture tells me nothing about luster is necessary for the AU grade, even with this level of sharpness.

 

Quarter Eagle - VF-20

 

This is a nice, interesting group of coins.

 

My thoughts were XF, AU, VF. I think luster on the middle coin will swing from 50 to 55 or so depending on how it looks in hand.

 

Nice.