Owner Comments:

It's been so long since I've added a coin to an empty slot in this set, feels kinda good! The first time I've completed a P-D-S set for any date in the 1920s! Yes, this coin is a problem coin, from the photos it looks pretty darn good, but when you look from different angles and under a loupe, you can definitely see the hairlines and scratches of a cleaning effort gone horribly wrong. But I knew that going in, and quite frankly it made this coin more affordable to fill that hole! Things have changed so much since I started this set more than a decade ago, back then Saints were a dime a dozen, ok, maybe $3,600 a dozen, but still that was really cheap! And filling those early holes came easy, but now it might be years between getting that exhilaration from taking one step closer to completing this set. That said, I filled a hole affordably, and I'm pretty happy with the result. Now to the coin, aside from the problems, the 1924-D had an original mintage of 3,049,500 coins, making it super common, at least until FDR took office and hunted these down until they were endangered species! Now in the latest edition of Aker's guidebook, the 24-D is ranked 17th overall out of 53 coins in the set with an estimated population in MS-60 and higher of 700-750 coins. This issue typically has very nice eye appeal, frosty luster and good color. On the downside, most survivors are found to be heavily abraded, and the strike tends to be much softer around the edges due to die deterioration (as evidenced by the 4 in the date of this particular example). Overall, a pretty coin that fills a long empty hole at a price I could afford, what more could I ask?