PCGS graded Morten and Eden additions to my set ... very pleased 😊

bidask · February 7, 2020 4:53PM

Any O AE mint is scarce in ms condition.

bidask · February 7, 2020 5:03PM

Clearly a top pop and beautiful and fully original.

6 star variety

bidask · February 7, 2020 5:04PM

DNB say rare .

TwoKopeiki · February 7, 2020 7:40PM

Nice batch - congrats!

bidask · February 7, 2020 8:12PM

Remember this coin ? Rubberband kept it from grading higher .

bidask · February 8, 2020 11:32AM

SURPRISINGLY this coin turned out to be the highest graded for the date at either PCGS or NGC !!

DNB says this coin is "scarcer" in uncirculated than other dates of this period.

ncsuwolf74 · February 8, 2020 2:08PM

@bidask said:
Remember this coin ? Rubberband kept it from grading higher .

I see this one about where it graded. I think the feel good story about this coin is that it was assigned a grade with the band mark LOL. That was your original concern

bidask · February 8, 2020 4:01PM

Common but a top pop at PCGS.... one better at NGC.

MrEureka · February 9, 2020 3:12PM

Any more?

bidask · February 9, 2020 3:38PM

@MrEureka said:
Any more?

https://images.pcgs.com/cert/38985670_trueview_184804364_medium.jpg

bidask · February 9, 2020 3:49PM

NCSUWOLF74 pointed out to me that the below is a variety 1870 FR/YF .

It matches Morten and Eden description but apparently PCGS missed it !

And so did I.........!!!!!

bidask · February 9, 2020 3:50PM

@MrEureka said:
Any more?

More to come next week .😄

bidask · February 9, 2020 4:38PM

@bidask said:
Clearly a top pop and beautiful and fully original.

6 star variety

@bidask said:
Clearly a top pop and beautiful and fully original.

6 star variety

When I added the above coin ( 6 star variety ) to my registry PCGS indicated I had “updated” and eliminated the 5 star variety . A real beauty as well .

https://images.pcgs.com/TrueView/38090831_Medium.jpg?v=1581291277220

Bob13 · February 9, 2020 11:11PM

These are some nice coins!

@bidask - out of total ignorance about this series - what are you going for? Date run, date and mint, date and mint and assayer (are they the assayers or minters??)

And how hard is this to do? Is it like assembling a set of Morgan dollars? Or way harder? Thanks in advance.

bidask · February 10, 2020 2:16PM

@Bob13 said:
These are some nice coins!

@bidask - out of total ignorance about this series - what are you going for? Date run, date and mint, date and mint and assayer (are they the assayers or minters??)

There 1105 coins in the registry .... oh boy ! ( I’m shooting for the stars )

I have completed maybe 22% so far
Including what I still need to cross from NGC

Registry : Collection from the West

And how hard is this to do?

Very hard .... Virtually impossible .

Is it like assembling a set of Morgan dollars? Or way harder?

Yes way harder

Thanks in advance.

Your welcome .

Abuelo · February 10, 2020 6:21PM

@bidask I never thought on comparing them with Morgans. It has to be 100 times harder...

MrEureka · February 10, 2020 8:48PM

@bidask has been training for this project all his life. Game on!

Bob13 · February 10, 2020 9:29PM

Makes bust halves by Overton number look like child’s play! Wow.

pruebas · February 10, 2020 11:39PM

There are several coins in which there are but one known (eg. 1870-ZsYH), several others that are very rare (eg. 1866-CaFP), and still others that are extremely rare (eg. 1827-PiSA).

I can tell you with absolute certainty that you will never complete the set. Nobody ever has. (Perhaps JB Parker completed the set. But I heard statements to the contrary, so I’m not sure.)

But you will absolutely have fun trying. And you should!

bidask · February 11, 2020 9:04PM

Oh man I get some really decent grades on my second batch of some really rare cap&rays 8 R

scubafuel · February 12, 2020 7:37AM

Congrats! It’s been fun to watch as you unveil them. Do the grading results make you wish you had been more aggressive with bidding, or did you generally get the ones you needed?

bidask · February 12, 2020 2:51PM

@scubafuel said:
Congrats! It’s been fun to watch as you unveil them. Do the grading results make you wish you had been more aggressive with bidding, or did you generally get the ones you needed?

Thank you .

I need a total of 1105 coins .🤪

I know I was complaining with the competion I had at the Morten Eden auction in London ( bidding against specialist dealers in the same room)

But now wish I had bid stronger than I had
........which was originally very strong 🤨

May not ever get a chance again to do so for some of those dates .

bidask · January 23, 2021 3:55PM

@MrEureka said:
@bidask has been training for this project all his life. Game on!

At the time of this auction I was not fully aware of the collector behind the sale of the Mexican Morten and Eden sale November 2019.

Recently ( like in the last couple days ) over a few glasses of wine Mr Eureka confirmed they belonged to none
other than :

bidask · January 23, 2021 3:56PM

@scubafuel said:
Congrats! It’s been fun to watch as you unveil them. Do the grading results make you wish you had been more aggressive with bidding, or did you generally get the ones you needed?

Absolutely!

Abuelo · January 23, 2021 3:59PM

@bidask said:

@MrEureka said:
@bidask has been training for this project all his life. Game on!

At the time of this auction I was not fully aware of the collector behind the sale of the Mexican Morten and Eden sale November 2019.

Recently ( like in the last couple days ) over a few glasses of wine Mr Eureka confirmed they belonged to none
other than :

Really? Completely unaware.

bidask · January 23, 2021 4:00PM

@Abuelo said:

@bidask said:

@MrEureka said:
@bidask has been training for this project all his life. Game on!

At the time of this auction I was not fully aware of the collector behind the sale of the Mexican Morten and Eden sale November 2019.

Recently ( like in the last couple days ) over a few glasses of wine Mr Eureka confirmed they belonged to none
other than :

Really? Completely unaware.

yes sir

Abuelo · January 23, 2021 4:02PM

I have several coins from the sale, but none of my envelopes have his name.

bidask · January 23, 2021 4:05PM

@Abuelo said:
I have several coins from the sale, but none of my envelopes have his name.

Neither did mine .....the envelope shown is from another purchase not Morten & Eden sale.....but I trust Mr Eureka knows
what he is talking about..... afterall he's a coinhound

pruebas · January 23, 2021 5:07PM

@Abuelo said:

@bidask said:

@MrEureka said:
@bidask has been training for this project all his life. Game on!

At the time of this auction I was not fully aware of the collector behind the sale of the Mexican Morten and Eden sale November 2019.

Recently ( like in the last couple days ) over a few glasses of wine Mr Eureka confirmed they belonged to none
other than :

Really? Completely unaware.

How could you not know? All those coins in the sale that said plate coins in the Hookneck book, of which he was co-author. I thought that was a dead giveaway!

bidask · January 23, 2021 5:53PM

@pruebas said:

@Abuelo said:

@bidask said:

@MrEureka said:
@bidask has been training for this project all his life. Game on!

At the time of this auction I was not fully aware of the collector behind the sale of the Mexican Morten and Eden sale November 2019.

Recently ( like in the last couple days ) over a few glasses of wine Mr Eureka confirmed they belonged to none
other than :

Really? Completely unaware.

How could you not know? All those coins in the sale that said plate coins in the Hookneck book, of which he was co-author. I thought that was a dead giveaway!

I did not connect the dots .

TwoKopeiki · January 23, 2021 6:02PM

@pruebas said:

@Abuelo said:

@bidask said:

@MrEureka said:
@bidask has been training for this project all his life. Game on!

At the time of this auction I was not fully aware of the collector behind the sale of the Mexican Morten and Eden sale November 2019.

Recently ( like in the last couple days ) over a few glasses of wine Mr Eureka confirmed they belonged to none
other than :

Really? Completely unaware.

How could you not know? All those coins in the sale that said plate coins in the Hookneck book, of which he was co-author. I thought that was a dead giveaway!

bidask · January 23, 2021 6:19PM

I lucked out because I was there in person to judge for myself ( with the help of Mr Eureka ) conditions/grades of the mostly raw coins that were auctioned.

I am thinking lots of bidders online may not have participated as much because many of the coins were raw and some had problems.

bidask · January 23, 2021 6:27PM

Outrageous

Abuelo · January 23, 2021 8:30PM

@pruebas said:

How could you not know? All those coins in the sale that said plate coins in the Hookneck book, of which he was co-author. I thought that was a dead giveaway!

Never even thought about it. But makes sense. Not just the Hooknecks but also the insane quality of the coins. I am sure took him a century (literally) to collect them. That being the case, I am glad that he was able to see the success of the sale.

pruebas · January 23, 2021 8:39PM

@Abuelo said:

@pruebas said:

How could you not know? All those coins in the sale that said plate coins in the Hookneck book, of which he was co-author. I thought that was a dead giveaway!

Never even thought about it. But makes sense. Not just the Hooknecks but also the insane quality of the coins. I am sure took him a century (literally) to collect them. That being the case, I am glad that he was able to see the success of the sale.

Another giveaway, though less obvious, was the fact that many of the coins were bought in the 1960s (and I think a few may have been purchased in the 1950s), per the auction notes. Who else would have such a nice collection (and still holding) from way back then?

Abuelo · January 23, 2021 8:42PM

@pruebas ok ok

PCGS graded Morten and Eden additions to my set ... very pleased 😊

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