John's Certifiable Type Set
50c SEATED LIBERTY, WITH ARROWS (1873-74)

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Coin Details

Origin/Country: United States
Design Description: HALF DOLLARS - SEATED LIBERTY
Item Description: 50C 1874 ARROWS
Full Grade: PCGS MS 63
Owner: JTO

Set Details

Custom Sets: This coin is not in any custom sets.
Competitive Sets: John's Certifiable Type Set   Score: 2445
John's Golden Set   Score: 2445
John's 19th Century   Score: 2445
My key date type set, check it out...   Score: 2445
Seated Liberty Half Dollars, 1839-1891, Circulation Issue   Score: 2727
John's Half   Score: 2445
Research: NGC Coin Explorer NGC Coin Price Guide
NGC US Coin Census for Seated Liberty Half Dollars (1839-1891)

Owner Comments:

I paid a bit of a premium price for this coin that, unfortunately, happened to be in a PCGS holder with a CAC sticker. These slabs attract the wrong kind of bidder... the investor. After writing about, "Problem Coins", the thread went to the question of what a person is buying: the coin or the slab? I think when it comes to these better type coins or rare date coins, IN GENERAL, you get more coin for your money for a coin in a NGC slab. It seems to me that the investors like the PCGS coins especially if they are CAC sticker-ed. I bought this one because of the nice creamy original look. There was an NGC 1874 Arrows 50c in a 64 holder for less. In this case the 64 coin may have had slightly better surfaces (technical grading) but it was blotchy and had dirt in the recesses. I bought the coin I liked better and am happy with it, I just wonder what the prices would have been if the coins were in opposite holders. Maybe I am too cynical and the other bidders were all bidding just on the looks of the coin like me. I will never know.

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