Who is Stellar?
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Someone who has owned and/or still owns some of the most monstrous 19th century silver and gold coins I've ever seen. Don't know who they are either.
Well, you are making it hard to be modest but
An advanced Southern collector. He owns many coins to drool over...
I have long admired the 1797 quarter eagle because of its rarity and the distinctive obverse die break.
here is another coin he owns
https://coinweek.com/us-coins/hidden-sleeping-rarities-part-1-copper/
He's from New Zealand?!
(edited to add: that quarter eagle is amazing)
Smitten with DBLCs.
Great guy and great coins! Focused on the rarest coins in the best possible condition. Roadrunner would love some of his Seated coins (some sold over the years). I helped him a little....
Yes, a great guy! (I met him on a couple occasions.) Chris, you "helped him a little..."??? Uh, I remember some of those deals and I would consider them as a wee bit more than "a little"!!
is he focused on a particular series or just whatever he likes?
Before Pogue, we offered him $5 million for his 1794 $1 in MS66. The guy has AMAZING coins.
I imagine that would be an incredible collection to view in person...pictures never do justice to the actual coin. Cheers, RickO
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The 1797 $2.50 in the first post was one of the coins used in VideoView experiments in this thread from 2017. The videos are on Youtube.
Looks like a nice proof-like.
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/987072/pcgs-is-looking-for-opinions-on-videoview/p2
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"To Be Esteemed Be Useful" - 1792 Birch Cent --- "I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain." - Lily Tomlin
The 1797 quarter eagle is gorgeous and the finest known. One of my favorite coins, and quite frankly, way undervalued.
BTW Laura, you offered more than $5 million for his 1794 $1 not long after you bought the SP66 coin for 10M+. Stellar's coin is the Lelan Rogers coin sold by Stacks in the mid 1990's. At the time this coin was sold by Stacks uncertified. It graded PCGS 66 back in the 1990's. At the time, there was NO Flowing Hair Dollar graded higher than MS 64 by PCGS. I graded it 67 then and I still do today.
That 1794 is amazing
The 1797 quarter eagle is gorgeous
This needs a picture and here it is from CoinFacts.
https://pcgs.com/coinfacts/coin/1794-1/images/6851
Would love to see the luster on this one in VideoView type imaging. Have never seen the coin though certainly remember the full page color image from the 1995 catalog, an unusual thing in those days.
https://archive.org/details/numisma95numisma1995stac/page/56
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"To Be Esteemed Be Useful" - 1792 Birch Cent --- "I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain." - Lily Tomlin
I used to run into Stellar at the major coin shows. At that time, he was an avid reader/lurker of this forum.
Uhhhh, no. Georgia, IIRC.
He still pops in now and then on these boards...
Huh? he pops in here? OMG, bet he trashes me every step of the way
CNN sold this guy some off the chart coins that I would love to get at....I believe we offered $6 million for the 1794. Am I right? I am old and apparently am losing it...
An FYI: I was the under bidder on the 1794 at the Rogers sale on behalf of our old friend Phil Flannagan. Leland Rogers is an extremely undersung collector. As is Stellar. Some people seriously enjoy collecting and do not need to pound their chests and buy everything....
Just looking at the images of these coins is an education. Wow.
I knew it would happen.