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GoBustGoBust Posts: 605 ✭✭✭✭✭

Wonderful photography from the famed Mr. Arnold at PCGS. I'm actually very familiar with these coins!

Really a terrific photography group at PCGS.

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  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,851 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Those old things? I've probably got a few dozen just like that laying around somewhere.

    ;)

  • CurrinCurrin Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The 1792 25C appear to be the coin that was damaged by the NGC holder?

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  • cardinalcardinal Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's an awesome poster!! Thanks for posting it!!

  • ilikemonstersilikemonsters Posts: 767 ✭✭✭✭

    @Currin said:
    The 1792 25C appear to be the coin that was damaged by the NGC holder?

    It's a shame what the NGC prongs did to the quarter...

    I love this poster!

  • GoBustGoBust Posts: 605 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 25, 2019 9:47PM

    The 1792 right quarter in white metal is the only one in private hands. Really the key to the design set. The copper version sold for over 2.5 million. I never thought there would be an opportunity to own one.

  • KeithMS70KeithMS70 Posts: 192 ✭✭✭

    WOW!!! I WANT ONE!

  • This was fun to shoot. Van Simmons from DHRC lent me most of the props, including the dueling pistols. The flag is still hanging in my office.

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  • CurrinCurrin Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭✭✭

    GoBust...
    The coins are very nice. Is the a reason you dont have them in the registry set?

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    My 20th Century Gold Major Design Type Set ---started : 11/17/1997 ---- completed : 1/21/2004
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,404 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Pretty sure this earns a "You suck!".

    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

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  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Great picture!
    Surely there is another
    with the reverses

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  • GoBustGoBust Posts: 605 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 26, 2019 10:46AM

    I do have them registered in a 1792 pattern design set along with a 1792 Birch cent that wasn't in the picture.

    The props were terrific Phil! Gives the whole vibe of the era of the new republic. Your layout and sense of esthetic really made the shot. I think it would be a great poster.

    Currin I've mostly been work on early American silver, most recently with proofs, but early mint efforts and experimentation are the true origins of American coinage. I find it fascinating. There aren't really collections in this area mostly a few examples put together, not really enough coins for sets to be assembled. I did build a loose collection with a few other early mint items called Early US mint that includes a few other neat early mint experiments such as the 1797 Eagle in copper, 1814 half dollar in platinum, 1831 half cent in bronze, 1836 half dollar hexagonal splasher in white metal etc. Sort of an early american orphanage of experiments. below is one example of an early American trinket, the reverse of an 1820/19 half dollar in white metal.

    And thanks for the "you suck!" Andy. I consider that high praise from a person who knows so much more than almost anyone about early patterns.

  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow, amazing !!! :)

    Timbuk3
  • EastonCollectionEastonCollection Posts: 1,527 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Fabulous! How can I get that as a poster! very cool.

    Easton Collection
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow - definitely worth 2 thumbs up! :+1::+1:

    Would love to own a J-1 some day but the wife doesn't like the idea of moving into a camper...... :D

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  • AlexinPAAlexinPA Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Exceptional coins but the pistols don't fit the time frame.

  • GoBustGoBust Posts: 605 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What type and age of pistols are they AlexinPA?

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,164 ✭✭✭✭✭

    nice, I like :)

  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,544 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very cool!!

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  • JimWJimW Posts: 580 ✭✭✭✭

    Thanks again for posting this!! Verrry cool :)

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  • SmEagle1795SmEagle1795 Posts: 2,199 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Well, that's awesome. And here I thought you only did bust coinage!

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  • BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,391 ✭✭✭✭✭
  • NicNic Posts: 3,405 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Agree with awesome and the you suck award!

  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @GoBust said:
    What type and age of pistols are they AlexinPA?

    They are caplock pistols. Personal protection guns from the 1820-1870 or so period.
    The coins would have been current with flintlock pistols.

    Dueling pistols would be much more elaborate even in flintlock.

    Even caplock ...duelers.... would have been more elaborate.

    Flintock

    Caplock

  • GoBustGoBust Posts: 605 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Well the patterns might have been gambled away in 1820, and some have some minor wear. So maybe it could still work! Perhaps we should have a little competition to write the back story of how this little group of coins and antiquities came together. I've always wondered what twisting and turning paths through history led them to the present day.

  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,546 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The coins and guns are nice, but the stem wind Elgin pocket watch is wrong for this era.

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  • GoBustGoBust Posts: 605 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 26, 2019 10:57PM

    Ok, what era is the pocket watch? Love to hear more about it. My quick internet search suggests the were not maid until 1865 at the earliest. Can you date this once more precisely?

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,694 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Since some people are getting picky, picky, picky, the dice are of the wrong "Die" variety!!!!

    o:)

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  • NysotoNysoto Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 27, 2019 10:45AM

    Awesome! Remember that in 1792: Birth of a Nation's Coinage, the authors did not find conclusive evidence that the 1792 Eagle-on-Globe pattern was intended for the half eagle or quarter denomination.

    Robert Scot: Engraving Liberty - biography of US Mint's first chief engraver

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