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GazesGazes Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I saw the new coins offering for Legend this week. About 20 coins priced in the neighborhood of $9,000,000. Some incredible coins---anyone know where these coins came from? Some unbelievable coins to pop up in a new offering.

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  • jabbajabba Posts: 3,176 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I can’t be impressed with no photos


    https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/quarters/washington-quarters-major-sets/washington-quarters-date-set-circulation-strikes-1932-present/publishedset/209923

    https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/quarters/washington-quarters-major-sets/washington-quarters-date-set-circulation-strikes-1932-present/album/209923

  • BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,169 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Some amazing coins! Look forward to pictures!

    Latin American Collection

  • scubafuelscubafuel Posts: 1,875 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I hope they’re available to view at FUN!

  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,849 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Photos are populating now. Amazing offering

    mark

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  • DCWDCW Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭✭✭

    9,000,000 coins? Where have I been? I thought the highest price ever paid was still the one lawfully owned 1933 Double Eagle.
    Now there are 20 coins on a single website for $9 million each?

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  • GazesGazes Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DCW said:
    9,000,000 coins? Where have I been? I thought the highest price ever paid was still the one lawfully owned 1933 Double Eagle.
    Now there are 20 coins on a single website for $9 million each?

    20 coins totalling around 9 million dollars

  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,801 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That 1794 cent is a looker.

  • DCWDCW Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Gazes said:

    @DCW said:
    9,000,000 coins? Where have I been? I thought the highest price ever paid was still the one lawfully owned 1933 Double Eagle.
    Now there are 20 coins on a single website for $9 million each?

    20 coins totalling around 9 million dollars

    Ok, thanks for clarifying this.

    Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
    "Coin collecting for outcasts..."

  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,352 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 4, 2020 3:27PM

    Amazing coins. Congrats to Legend for being able to offer these!

    I'm blown away by the specimen Ameri. cent. I've posted some information on it below along with the 2nd finest specimen that sold at FUN last year in the Weinberg sale as there is some description of the specimen coin in that auction description. There's a lot of history in that auction description so it's a fun read. Both of these were owned by Naftzger. Bill Noyes describes these as the only two specimens with choice surfaces.

    1793 Chain Cent Ameri. - PCGS SP65BN CAC - Bareford-Halperin-Naftzger

    It's the only Special Strike graded by PCGS and grades higher than the MS strikes.

    It is remarkable that this coin, one of the most beautiful examples of this early type, has not had extensive and exhaustive write ups. Part of the reason is that it has never appeared in auction since 1950. Since that time, it has graced three of the most famed large cent collections: Harold Bareford, Herman Halperin, and Ted Naftzger; but each time it traded privately.

    From Heritage:

    • Bill Noyes's grade: MS62
    • Del Bland's grade: MS61

    Here's the Legend sale link:

    1793 Chain Cent - Ameri. PCGS SP65BN CAC
    PCGS Coin #91340 / PCGS Serial #19741374
    PCGS POP 1/0, PCGS Price Guide Value n/a

    1793 Chain Cent Ameri. - PCGS MS64+BN CAC - Elder-Naftzger-Weinberg

    This is the second highest graded specimen at PCGS. This one sold in Alan V. Weinberg's collection at FUN last year with some good comments on the specimen coin in the auction description.

    From Heritage:

    • Bill Noyes's grade: AU55
    • Del Bland's grade: MS60

    1793 Chain Cent - Ameri. PCGS MS64+BN CAC
    PCGS Coin #1340 / PCGS Serial #35744104
    PCGS POP 1/0, PCGS Price Guide Value $1,500,000

    Private Mint News | 2010 Lincoln Reverse Finalists
  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,352 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 4, 2020 2:44PM

    @bolivarshagnasty said:
    I dreamed last night that I had the chain cent reholdered with new provenance.............
    Elder-Naftzger-Weinberg-Shagnasty

    I'm dreaming with you. I'd love to see a slab with "Shagnasty" on it ;)

    Private Mint News | 2010 Lincoln Reverse Finalists
  • cameonut2011cameonut2011 Posts: 10,169 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Aren't most of these Ex Oliver Jung?

  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,352 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @cameonut2011 said:
    Aren't most of these Ex Oliver Jung?

    It's not mentioned in the Specimen Ameri. cent provenance:

    Pedigree:
    Edward Cogan, traded privately – Joseph J. Mickley Collection – W. Elliot Woodward 10/1867:1938, $110 – M.Mortimer Livingston Mackenzie Collection – Edward Cogan 6/1869:626, $145 – John Rhodes – James E. Root – Edward Cogan 12/1878:234, $170 – Lorin G. Parmelee Collection – New York Coin & Stamp 6/1890:670, $167 – Virgil M. Brand Collection, sold privately on 2/7/1941 – Burdette G. Johnson, sold privately 0n 7/6/1943, $450 – Oscar J. Pearl Collection – Numismatic Gallery FPL 1944:1, $1,850 – Charles M. Williams Collection – Numismatic Gallery 11/1950:1, $1,400 – Harold Bareford Collection, sold privately on 9/13/1985 – Herman Halpern Collection, sold privately on 12/11/1986 – R.E. “Ted” Naftzger Collection, sold intact on 2/23/1992 – Eric Streiner – Jay Parrino (The Mint) – Legend Numismatics.

    Private Mint News | 2010 Lincoln Reverse Finalists
  • santinidollarsantinidollar Posts: 1,056 ✭✭✭✭✭

    While you’re at it, pick up a spare or two

  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 4, 2020 3:36PM

    :)

    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,352 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 4, 2020 7:00PM

    @cnncoins said:
    There's actually a better Chain Cent out there (Different Variety) graded PCGS SP67BN. My customer purchased this coin in the mid 1990's, along with a Wreath Cent in PCGS SP68 RED (The only Large Cent/Half Cent pre-1800
    copper coin in RED), also purchased in that time frame. He still owns them today.

    Is this the Periods variety specimen known as "The Coin" mentioned in Coin Facts here with an estimated grade of SP67BN? Perhaps it's no longer estimated and should be updated?

    Of note, that coin is also a Naftzger coin and PCGS Coin Facts lists the provenance as:

    Joseph J. Mickley - W. Elliot Woodward 10/1867:1936, $23 - Colonel M.I. Cohen - Edward Cogan 10/1875:1909, $50 - J.E. Cooley - Sylvester S. Crosby - Henry C. Hines, 1945 - Dr. William H. Sheldon, 4/1972 - R.E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/1992 - Eric Streiner - Jay Parrino (The Mint)

    It's neat to trace these Naftzger coins, from where they were before to Naftzger to where they went afterwards. He was prolific!

    Private Mint News | 2010 Lincoln Reverse Finalists
  • goldengolden Posts: 9,715 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Holy crap!

  • cnncoinscnncoins Posts: 414 ✭✭✭✭

    Zions...these are actually two different coins.....the SP67 is the one mentioned by CoinFacts.

  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,162 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @cameonut2011 said:
    Aren't most of these Ex Oliver Jung?

    No. Some are but not most.

    Early Dollar Set

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