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Always been a fan of type ones. They look like mini-twenties. I like die cracks too.
Great dollar !

@luckychucky said:
Mines came in last week. It's on the way to NGC for grading. Hoping it's a PF70. I am now waiting on my Sacagwea coin which shipped today.

ngc? why not pcgs?

There is another laser engraved AE proof coin coming out 8/20 and then the next day the American Liberty High Relief Gold coin comes out. I plan on getting both as well as the navy and Marine AE when they come out. I'd like to flip the whole set.

the sac in the ogp is going for 2700 on ebay. the army is 200

the most profit will be made on advanced releases and first day of issue then first strikes and early releases. for me it is better to flip raw and save the grading fess and potential decrease in ebay offers

i'd also flip each as they are released. you're not going to get more for the set, and ebay prices might come down while waiting for others

I don't see how repeating the designs from1916 and 2016 is at all relevant in 2026. The medal obverse is inspiring. The medal reverse is just plain dumb and quite embarrassing.

I don't understand the nuances of early copper enough to comment on the toning or the PCGS designation (although I see it as a RB as well), but I can certainly say that is a both a GORGEOUS and FANTASTIC Large Cent!

@ProofCollection said:

@Manorcourtman said:
One thing is sure about this issue, and that’s if you wanted one, it was easy to obtain.

That was the goal of the mint. Only recently have they finally figured out how to achieve it.

Guessing there won't be anything like the V75 AGE again.

The Flowing Hair privy will probably be the only venue for something like that in the future. The Mint will get the big $ up front. Folks won't have a shot at such a score at normal issue price like the V75 AGE. Time will tell.

@numis1652 said:
I completely agree with the VF-35 grade… when I first saw the beaver $5, I mentally graded it as VF-35.

While it is true that pioneer gold was often struck on poorly prepared gold planchets with dies unevenly hitting planchets, there’s been a many decades argument whether this requires a different
grading standard like the hobby applies to American colonial copper. I’m in the camp that there should not be different standards. Heavy wear, rim dents, excessive abrasions are to be considered in grading, period. Not disregarded due to more primitive mintage practices.

I distinctly recall when slabbing first surfaced around 1986, a choice Unc 1793 half cent was featured on 2 full catalogue pages. I had handled it previously “ raw “ and it had several prominent rim nicks which had clearly not been considered in grading nor visible in the new slab. I inquired with the highly respected cataloguer who responded essentially “ Who cares, you can't see the rim problems in the slab “.

Most experienced non- professionals believe the coin stands on its own, irrespective of the slab grade.

Unfortunately, the current coin imarket doesn't look at grading this way.

The Oregon beaver $5 is not that rare or difficult to find . The Oregon beaver $10 is. Most Oregon pioneer pieces, indeed most pioneer gold , is in the hands of older collectors and more and more of these will surface at auction in the next few years. Including Oregon beaver $5 and $10s

Old school, 68 years in this hobby

"Not that rare or difficult to find?" ..... Interesting perspective, I had no idea. Here I was under the assumption that a coin with <40 known examples was considered to be pretty rare, especially when there aren't any currently for sale and you typically won't be able to locate one at a show like FUN or ANA. Theres about 12 different examples I can identify on HA, half of them with issues that could easily prevent a straight grade if submitted again. A description of one of the better coins, an NGC XF45 CAC, reads:

1849 Oregon Exchange Co. Five Dollar, XF45
K-1, A Briefly Minted Territorial Rarity

1849 $5 Oregon Exchange Co. Five Dollar XF45 NGC. K-1, R.6. CAC. Previously rated R.5, we have upped the rarity factor for the Oregon five dollar to R.6 as only a couple of dozen pieces are known, and as such it is one of the great rarities in the Territorial series.

Who would have guessed that there were droves of them squirreled away by passionate, but elderly collectors, and the coins would be headed to auction any day now as soon as they started to cash in their chips. This issue has only been recognized as a rarity for a bit more than a century, so i'm sure theres plenty more waiting to surface 🥸.

@jacrispies said:

@Davidk7 said:
XF40

Like I've said to you a million times before... look at all the luster!!!!!

I'll take a higher guess and say AU-53. Lots of leniency on this series.

Too flat for an AU IMO!