New Purchase: 1876-S Trade Dollar - Blue & Brown Dual-Sided Toner - (Type 1 Obverse & Revers

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• Goldbully Posts: 17,926 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 7, 2014 12:21PM

  Love that look Stuart.....would buy her in a heart beat.
  
  Where did you get her???

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• MilkmanDan Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 7, 2014 12:22PM

  Cool, nice looking and I almost missed the chopmark.

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• kaz Posts: 9,265 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 7, 2014 1:13PM

  
  
  << <i>Cool, nice looking and I almost missed the chopmark. >>
  
  
  
  Me too. Love that crust and patination.

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• coinsarefun Posts: 21,756 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 7, 2014 1:18PM

  
  
  << <i>Cool, nice looking and I almost missed the chopmark. >>
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I missed it until I saw what you said.......lol
  
  
  Beautiful Trade $ I like it very much!

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• mdwoods Posts: 5,559 ✭✭✭

  October 7, 2014 1:28PM

  Nice, looks original too. I also missed the chop mark on the first look.

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• Stuart Posts: 9,793 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 8, 2014 9:27AM

  Thanks for everyone's comments and kind words posted in this thread about my new 1876-S Trade Dollar.
  
  << Love that look Stuart.....would buy her in a heart beat. -- Where did you get her??? >>
  GoldBully, In reply to your above quoted post, I purchased this coin recently at auction from Heritage.

  
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• Yorkshireman Posts: 4,584 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 8, 2014 9:29AM

  I REALLY like the patina.
  What a cool coin. Nice find, Stuart.

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• crypto79 Posts: 8,623 ✭

  October 8, 2014 9:56AM

  Cool coin, a lot of history there for not a lot of money. Most other issues that invoke that kind of history like CC Wild West or southern gold have much heavier collector Interest.

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• 123cents Posts: 7,178 ✭✭✭

  October 8, 2014 10:09AM

  Very nice. Saw it on Heritage site and was tempted.

  

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• DDR Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 8, 2014 12:21PM

  Love it!

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• Stuart Posts: 9,793 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 10, 2014 3:06AM

  Thanks for all of your posts and kind words about my new 1876-S Trade Dollar.
  
  Some of the things that attracted me to this coin were the original appearing blue & brown dual-sided toning, AU+ preservation state -- as well as the strong strike exhibited by the full radial lines in stars and the olive branch being held by Miss Liberty on the obverse. I also liked the stealthy chop mark on the eagle's left leg.
  
  I'm looking forward to receiving her soon to see how she looks in person.

  
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• CoinWW2 Posts: 135

  October 10, 2014 6:34AM

  This is an amazing coin!

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• sparky64 Posts: 7,044 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 10, 2014 7:28AM

  I like it a lot, for all the reasons you mention.
  
  I think the obv. toning gives it a kind of cam look.

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• USMarine6 Posts: 1,951 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 10, 2014 8:50AM

  Very nice example. I'm on the hunt for a trade dollar myself and would love to own own as nice as this one. Nice work

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• Stuart Posts: 9,793 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 13, 2014 10:48AM

  As an update... I received this Trade Dollar during the weekend, and it exceeds my expectations based on the Heritage Auction photos posted earlier in this thread which do not depict the coin's luster.
  
  The coin possesses satiny to semi-prooflike mint luster in the fields, with lightly contrasting frosty cameo devices.
  
  When the coin is rotated in light, the blue brown toning is beautifully illuminated by the reflected light that emanates through it.
  
  1876-S Trade Dollar - Blue & Brown Dual-Sided Toner - (Type 1 Obverse & Reverse)
  

  
  Stuart
  
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• AMRC Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 13, 2014 12:17PM

  A 2fer.
  
  Stunner on the obverse, and history on the reverse.
  
  Nice pick-em-up.

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• crypto79 Posts: 8,623 ✭

  October 13, 2014 10:04PM

  Shhhhh we don't want it to get too out that traded dollars can be quite attractive all while being impressively large and historically interesting. I really don't know why they are ignored in the market place but I never would have been able to afford my set if they weren't.

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