$5 Liberty Gold Half Eagle MS-63 PCGS

Nice PCGS coin. Value for sure

For the gold half eagle, there are at least 19 mint years with mintage in excess of 950,000. I fully expected to receive one of those high mintage years, but the coin I rec'd was 1908 with a "mere" mintage of about 422,000. Plus, this is the last year of mintage for the half eagle, and my coin is an attractive solid ms63. Apmex has provided excellent value, I WILL be buying more of these!

This coin was graded by PCGS as MS-63, but I found a lot of dark spots on coins, may be due to copper oxidation ( 10% of copper in coin). I suppose that slab of PCGS must be air and water tight, but holder itself was very old and with scratches and not as shown in picture at all ( where brand new slab holder is shown, recently introduced by PCGS). I checked PCGS number and it shows authenticity of coin, so I consider coin genuine, may be I'll send it to PCGS to recapitulate coin with new slab.

Decided to buy five to take advantage of "per 5" pricing. All were good quality coins, fairly graded. Two of the PCGS holders were chipped, but I think this does not affect value. Customer service was great, as always. I think that, although gold has been falling for three-plus years, and may continue to fall, there will come a time when these collector coins will be worth more than today.

Good Deal in numismatic coins, the way the US Economy is; gold has never gone to zero, where will the US dollar go?