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1861 Double Eagle

7Jaguars7Jaguars Posts: 7,228 ✭✭✭✭✭

Here ya go, what do you think?
Might be a trick involved.....

Love that Milled British (1830-1960)
Well, just Love coins, period.

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

    Very nice. :)

  • jwittenjwitten Posts: 5,072 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Daniel Carr piece?

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 45,301 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Show us the reverse. :D

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.

  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Edge, please.

  • amwldcoinamwldcoin Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Chocolate Candy!

  • tommy44tommy44 Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @amwldcoin said:
    Chocolate Candy!

    agree

    it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide

  • 7Jaguars7Jaguars Posts: 7,228 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Hah, good guesses!

    It's his 2011 strike on the 0.999 gold planchet...

    Here is one struck over an 1859 S Double Eagle:


    Love that Milled British (1830-1960)
    Well, just Love coins, period.
  • 7Jaguars7Jaguars Posts: 7,228 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Haven't stepped to the plate for any other larger gold Carr pieces.....

    Love that Milled British (1830-1960)
    Well, just Love coins, period.
  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 13,776 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very cool and I’m glad it’s not a chocolate coin😂

    The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,427 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I was going to "polished," but I guess that look kind of goes with items like this.

    I have posted an example of the real thing on another thread.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • jwittenjwitten Posts: 5,072 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @7Jaguars said:
    Hah, good guesses!

    It's his 2011 strike on the 0.999 gold planchet...

    Here is one struck over an 1859 S Double Eagle:


    VERY nice! Let me know if you ever want to sell ;)

  • amwldcoinamwldcoin Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Now that I would not of expected but I don't follow D Carr's stuff...not that I don't like it!

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Beautiful strike on that gold.... I had just commented on BillJones 1861 Double Eagle.... Cheers, RickO

  • 7Jaguars7Jaguars Posts: 7,228 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The finish on the .999 struck example does not look polished in hand, but rather a fine matte finish - quite attractive actually. The overs truck 1859-S was on a cleaned VF-EF specimen so IMO no real loss & like that it was earlier than 1861.

    Love that Milled British (1830-1960)
    Well, just Love coins, period.
  • dcarrdcarr Posts: 7,936 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I haven't seen either of those for a while ...
    There have been one or two of the brass version on eBay in the last year or so - both sold close to $200 each.
    It has been a long time since I saw a gold one for sale.

  • 7Jaguars7Jaguars Posts: 7,228 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Next to your Oregon 50c overstrike, my favorite.

    Love that Milled British (1830-1960)
    Well, just Love coins, period.
  • blitzdudeblitzdude Posts: 5,367 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @7Jaguars said:
    Here ya go, what do you think?
    Might be a trick involved.....

    Fake, hope you didn't pay too much.

    The whole worlds off its rocker, buy Gold™.

  • 7Jaguars7Jaguars Posts: 7,228 ✭✭✭✭✭

    LOL, hope you read the comments. It is not fake, but not an original 1861 that probably would sell for a good deal more than paid.

    Love that Milled British (1830-1960)
    Well, just Love coins, period.
  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice !!! :)

    Timbuk3

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