Owner Comments:

Here is a nice AU 26-S, unfortunately it has the surface marks and abrasions consistent with the grade, but the biggest distracting mark is right near the mintmart (the most important place on this coin!). The reverse however is very nice, with relatively few marks for the grade. The rims are also somewhat rounded, which is somewhat uncommon on this issue as opposed to other S-mint issues of the 1920s. Akers in his difinitive work ranks this coin 18th out of 54 in mint state, with an extant population of 150 to 200, and nearly all mint state. That makes this issue the most common of the mintmarked issues from 1924-27, but that's ok, I'll take it!