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A wonderful bucket-list acquisition if you like scarce Walkers

WhitWhit Posts: 314 ✭✭✭

Good evening, folks;

With thanks to Bajjerfan, a multi-year search came to an end today with the arrival of this elusive beauty below. It is a CAC'd PCGS 35. I hope you enjoy the photos, presented with Bajjerfan's consent. They are his, and spot on. Whit.

Whit

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

    Like her @Whit and plenty of details abound. Thanks for posting.

  • jughead1893jughead1893 Posts: 965 ✭✭✭✭✭

    looks perfect for the grade,congrats!

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 31,499 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice problem-free piece.

    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,946 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Really, really nice. Congrats!

    Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.

  • bidaskbidask Posts: 13,834 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice even wear and very original .

    A. numismatic keeper !

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 22,612 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice!

  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,208 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Fields are so clean for a 35. Very nice.

  • RollermanRollerman Posts: 1,840 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just the kind of circulated coin just about everyone enjoys. Congrat's!

    "Ain't None of Them play like him (Bix Beiderbecke) Yet."
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  • COINS MAKE CENTSCOINS MAKE CENTS Posts: 1,788 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Great looking walker!!!!

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    HAPPY COLLECTING


  • TomBTomB Posts: 20,689 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Beautiful coin from a terrific issue and a great series.

    Thomas Bush Numismatics & Numismatic Photography

    In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson

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  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    if every VF35 looked like that I could be convinced to start a collection of them. :)

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice old WLH.... great condition - commerce wear but no damage....A favorite coin of mine....and I can remember carrying them in my pocket as a young fellow...I wish I had saved a bunch of them. Cheers, RickO

  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A beautiful circ Walker!

  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,114 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Beautiful example - the reverse looks to be an easy XF.
    Also I think it is 'condition scarce' at this grade level.
    I recall owning 3 AUs, and a couple VGs, but had two customers needing
    this date in VF, and not being able to locate any in over a year.

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

    Very nice coin and most certainly is!

    @Walkerguy21D said:
    Beautiful example - the reverse looks to be an easy XF.
    Also I think it is 'condition scarce' at this grade level.
    I recall owning 3 AUs, and a couple VGs, but had two customers needing
    this date in VF, and not being able to locate any in over a year.

  • WildIdeaWildIdea Posts: 1,872 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congratulations!
    That’s how I want all my circ stuff to look.

  • dbldie55dbldie55 Posts: 7,717 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice. Love the obverse MM Walkers.

    Collector and Researcher of Liberty Head Nickels. ANA LM-6053
  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 23,896 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Eye appeal is excellent and it is properly graded. Nice coin!

    All glory is fleeting.
  • ElmerFusterpuckElmerFusterpuck Posts: 4,614 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Super nice, and yes the 16-S is very tough in nice, original circulated grades. I have an XF-45 purchased from @TomB some years ago - and haven't seen a nice one until this posting!

    Now can someone post (or locate) a nice XF 1917-S reverse mintmarked piece (graded or raw)? That's supposed to be a 'common' date.

  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,114 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Now can someone post (or locate) a nice XF 1917-S reverse mintmarked piece (graded or raw)? That's supposed to be a 'common' date.
    Another interesting conditional coin....AU's are ALMOST plentiful (by early walker standards)....higher grade circs in XF, not so much.....

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  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 8,896 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Lots of Walker eye candy in this thread......Congrats to one and all!!

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  • clarkbar04clarkbar04 Posts: 4,922 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice looking coin!

    MS66 taste on an MS63 budget.
  • ParlousJoeParlousJoe Posts: 451 ✭✭✭

    Very nice looking coin for the grade! Congrats on getting it BAJJERFAN!

  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 30,977 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ParlousJoe said:
    Very nice looking coin for the grade! Congrats on getting it BAJJERFAN!

    Which one?

  • ParlousJoeParlousJoe Posts: 451 ✭✭✭

    I was talking about the first one but they both are very nice pick ups @BAJJERFAN

  • kazkaz Posts: 9,052 ✭✭✭✭✭

    beautiful 16 s !

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 27,409 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice Walker I like

  • CatbertCatbert Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very wholesome coin! So glad you posted a pic. Do you have pics of the collection?

    "Got a flaming heart, can't get my fill"
  • WhitWhit Posts: 314 ✭✭✭

    Good evening, Catbert;

    No, I don't have pictures, though I have read Mark Goodman's book several times and I have followed discussions on photography here with great interest. Coin photography is a post-retirement goal.

    Thanks to all who commented!

    And good night ....

    Whit

    Whit
  • mannie graymannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BAJJERFAN said:

    @ElmerFusterpuck said:
    Super nice, and yes the 16-S is very tough in nice, original circulated grades. I have an XF-45 purchased from @TomB some years ago - and haven't seen a nice one until this posting!

    Now can someone post (or locate) a nice XF 1917-S reverse mintmarked piece (graded or raw)? That's supposed to be a 'common' date.

    Sold this one awhile back.

    Still got this one which I'm keeping. You're right in that it's common, but tough to find nice. Have not seen one I'd buy in quite a spell. If there was one I'd a snagged it.

    I like the "VF" better than the "XF ".

  • TommyTypeTommyType Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The 1916-S is a tough coin....Unless you want a G-4, or an MS coin. I just picked mine up a few weeks ago. (Lower grade....but not a G-4). ;)


    Easily distracted Type Collector
  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 30,977 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TommyType said:
    The 1916-S is a tough coin....Unless you want a G-4, or an MS coin. I just picked mine up a few weeks ago. (Lower grade....but not a G-4). ;)


    Nice pickup and a great looking coin.

  • BullsitterBullsitter Posts: 5,319 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice, I love them like that.

  • WhitWhit Posts: 314 ✭✭✭

    Another beautifully circulated Walker posted by TommyType. Thank you for showing. I was at the Danbury CT coin show today, and saw no TPG mid-graded WLHs.
    Good night.
    Whit

    Whit

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