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Re: Unusual 1916 Standing Liberty token - Cosgrove Airways 1928
@messydesk said:
This is exactly the same obverse J. Cline used on his tokens not terribly long before he passed. Patrick Mint comes to mind.
I agree they are pretty darn similar. These had his Florida address on the reverse side and he moved there in the mid-1990s. I think he was giving the tokens away at shows into the 2000-2010 range. Below is a composite of the Cosgrove token on the left and the Cline token on the right.
TomB
Re: Can't Sell on eBay Please Help!
No offense intended, but that is a terrible way to list the items, for the reasons given above.
Try looking at it from a buyer's perspective. If you were searching for any of those items, how would you ever find that listing? Nothing is mentioned in the title, and the category you have it in doesn't apply to any one item.
Many of those items are in demand, but they cut across several distinct areas of collecting. It isn't really reasonable to expect someone to buy all of it just for one or even two of the items.
Also, the signed items are some of the big ticket items but there is no authentication.
JBK
Re: Fortin plate coin?
i just thought it odd he might be using Great Collections for sales.
He has been selling Seated Dime variety plate coins on his site for several years.
So the December 2024 coin on Great Collections could have been owned by someone who bought it from Gerry previously.
Great Collections coin sold Dec 2024
Fortin F-106a plate coin
On the plate coin, I see a scratch/gouge on Ms. Liberty's upper right arm (viewer's left) which is not present on your coin.
Also, scratches on the rock and below ME on your coin which are not present on the plate coin.
So I don't think yours is the Fortin plate coin.
The GFRC Sales Archive shows 2 1838 F-106a VF25 coins sold in 2014. They do not have photos.
So the VF25 grade is likely not unique for this variety.
A very cool bisecting die crack on this variety!
Re: Nice holiday card from ICG
@PerryHall said:
When one of you guys get your Christmas card from PCGS, could you please post a pic. Thanks.
All I want for Christmas is quality Trueview photos. Maybe if Mariah Carey sings it my wish will come true!
Re: The higher crypto goes, the lower metals go
@TwoSides2aCoin said:
Or is this just my imagination ?
In the aggregate, without crypto/BTC....gold would almost certainly be higher, yes.
At the same time, gold and crypto/BTC have both gone up at the same time. When crypto/BTC go parabolic, that is where gold gets hit.
There's no doubt if you purchase "digital gold" you have less need for the real one. 
Re: 🎉 Get Ready for the Largest & Most Exciting Coin Show in America! 🎉
Hype it and they will come? 🤣
"Largest coin show in America"? 🤣
How did that work out the last time?
In any event, I hope no one from FUN, the ANA, Whitman, etc. stumbles onto this thread.
NJCoin
Re: 🎉 Get Ready for the Largest & Most Exciting Coin Show in America! 🎉
Let's see - two weeks after the ANA and three weeks before the Great American Coins & Collectibles Show in Chicago. Schedule's getting pretty crowded, isn't it?
Re: GTG - 1906D $10 Liberty SLAB POSTED with GRADE at bottom of thread.
The CAC photo department is top notch.
coinbuf
Re: Drumwright $5 Liberty gold collection @ Heritage WOW!
I'll be watching the 1842-D large date half eagle. There is some provenance there.
Re: The Cheerios Dollar is perhaps he best almost affordable, modern sleeper / buyer coin.
The Cheerios pattern Sac $1 is a cool modern coin. But, there are now around 5 1/2 dozen MS68’s graded at PCGS, including (1) in 68+. There is also the NGC-MS69 coin in existence, which I haven’t seen. But, I can only assume the coin would also only cross to a PCGS-MS68 (and maybe MS68+ on a great day). I think that NGC coin realized under $28,000 at auction recently. Meanwhile, when this coin was just pop 5/0 in MS68 at PCGS, the coin fetched $29,900 at Heritage. They have lost the majority of their value from there as the coin moved up from pop 5 to pop 65 in MS68.
In my Top Modern Registry Set is a specimen that I believe was either the very first or second MS68 ever graded at PCGS (under the strictest standards). It is a fabulous quality coin. It hasn’t seen the light of day in the past 15 or 20 years I have owned the coin. I would be happy to have a “Showdown” at a future PCGS Event of the greatest Cheerios Dollars in existence and enter my coin. I’m confident it would “stack up” very nicely against the recently graded PCGS-MS68+ as well as the NGC-MS69.
What’s holding this coin back (when viewed as a future “sleeper”) is its original mintage and the actual number coins uncovered and in collector’s hands to date. The coin is having trouble working its way back to $10,000+ in the top PCGS numerical grade of MS68 with such a “high” relative mintage. By contrast, I recently bought at auction a very cool 20th Century pattern with an estimated mintage of about less than a dozen specimens for the same $10,000. I’ll personally take the mintage 10 or 12 coin over a mintage 500 or 1,000 or 5,500 (whatever one wants to assert for the Cheerios Dollar) - “apples to apples patterns”.
As always, just my 2 cents.
Wondercoin
