Afternoon everyone …..
Remember yesterday when I said it was going to be beautiful out today? Well technically it was if you go by just how it looked outside. But they failed to mention that the humidity was going to creep back in…..
While I don’t mind a temperature of ninety two degrees, with the humidity it had a real feel of one hundred and two. Which isn’t very comfortable.
They are now calling for one hundred degrees tomorrow with a real feel of one hundred and twelve. Now that is going to be unpleasant.
Luckily I will not be working tomorrow. It would have been my parents sixty second anniversary and to take my mom’s mind off of it. I planned to take her to the casino tomorrow with my girlfriend Jennifer.
I have come across many raw (ungraded) coins. Some of them I have no memory of buying, but they are coins that I like so obviously I did. This particular series is extremely difficult to obtain in mint state. There are many years of short mintages, key dates, semi key dates.
So today I’m going to share one of them with you. It’s a 1942 Walking Liberty Half Dollar from the Philadelphia Mint. There were just over forty two million of these struck, but there aren’t any where near that many that still look like this.
The coin has a very nice mint luster, it has great detail and very little wear. I’m going to say it’s between an MS62 and an MS63.
The melt value of the coin is about $9, but in this condition the coin you see is worth at least 5X that. Ungraded versions of this coin have completed sales between $48 to $60.
The post it in the box listed me paying $18 for it at a coin show in New York in 2018. So in the five years that I’ve owned it, the coin has 3X its value. Can’t say that for the spot price.
Here is the coin
