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Re: What are your numismatic / coin related pet peeves?
Mean and unnecessary responses to coin forum posts.
chesterb
Re: If interested? Can you guess my feelings in my PSA Submission results? FULFILLING my Promise!
Joey - you need to now take that piece and create a 1/1 Joeykoins autograph relic card.
1all
Re: If interested? Can you guess my feelings in my PSA Submission results? FULFILLING my Promise!
Yikes. You have a sharp edge there. I think he meant crack the card out of the PSA holder, then cut the corner off.
But thanks for taking that out of circulation.
Re: Heritage Auction today: 1854-O Liberty Head $20 Gold AU55 NGC sold for $348,000 w/bp
@Goldbully said:
@MFeld said:
@Goldbully said:
How many NGC or PCGS examples have you seen sell for anywhere close to their PCGS price guide values? I did a quick check and didn't come up with much of anything. Even this PCGS/CAC example sold last year wasn't within $100,000 of the current PCGS price guide figure.
https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/lots/view/3-1B9CIZ/1854-o-liberty-head-double-eagle-winter-1-the-only-known-dies-ef-45-pcgs-cacI agree with you, but the PCGS price guide(grades 40 -58) are much too high then.
How are they determined on these super rare coins?
That - the PCGS price guide being much too high - was the point I was trying to make. If I remember correctly, the guide is based largely on dealer asking prices rather than actual sale prices.
MFeld
Heritage Auction today: 1854-O Liberty Head $20 Gold AU55 NGC sold for $348,000 w/bp
That number is a lot lower than the PCGS Price Guide for what appears to be a nice example for a 55.
If I was the seller I wouldn't be happy.....what say you folks?
1854-O $20 AU55 NGC. Variety 1. The 1854-O Liberty double eagle claims a meager mintage of 3,250 pieces, the second-lowest production total of the series. The reason for the small mintage is easily explained by the opening of the San Francisco Mint in 1854, which drastically reduced the flow of gold deposits at the New Orleans facility. Before 1854, large amounts of gold dust and ore were deposited every year at the Southern mint, but the San Francisco facility was much more convenient to the great California gold fields, so deposits dwindled to a trickle once that location commenced coinage operations. As a result, the 1854-O is one of the rarest coins of any denomination ever struck at the New Orleans Mint.
