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SeattleSlammer
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I had fun following the action online (using just my phone) at last week’s Legend Regency auction with their live audio feature. It was a hoot to simply ‘swipe left’ to bid here and there — and a split second later hear the auctioneer assistant acknowledge my swipe and say, “Bid.” — I was greatly impressed with the interface. I mean, if your toddler grabbed your phone during the proceedings it really would be THAT easy to accidentally bid, bid, bid, bid... lol
I grabbed this one (on purpose, haha) and it’s a real looker in-hand...but my slab pic doesn’t capture the colors/luster as well as our host did.
20+ years of collecting all sorts of stuff and I still love rainbow Morgan’s. 🤠
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Beautiful toning.
Nice Morgan! I wanted to watch the Morelan lots live but I was too terrified of accidentally clicking “bid $400,000”!
That's an excellent rainbow toned Morgan. I am big collector of these and can't get enough of them!
Bidding and winning IS exciting! Been a long time for me where I was outbid by Chris McCawley On a large cent at a FUN auction years ago. Big congrats!
Thanks. I love your mega RR pickup! — feel free to post here if you so desire.
So the reverse is practically colorless while the obverse is a rainbow? How does that happen to a coin, stored for years face up?
Very nice!
@Onastone I’m assuming this was a bag toner and all the toning happened before it left government storage.
Words can't explain.
"Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!
--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.You need to come up with a name, like AB does for his - nice looking coin!
One of my favorites.
@Inspired70 , love it. ⭐️
Beautiful Roadrunner coins @SeattleSlammer and @Inspired70 !
Is there a place to see all the Roadrunner coins together, like on a Registry Set? I know they are all on Legend Auctions site, but it's not very convenient to enjoy the Roadrunner set that way.
@Zoins not that I’m aware of ... and I’ve also had difficulty just finding basic info about the set’s owner and history.
That means the owner is successful in remaining anonymous!
I love to learn more about owners and provenance, but I can understand people that want to remain private too.
Do any of the Roadrunner coins come with previous provenance?
@Zoins my guess is a handful of them have passed back and forth between the known monster rainbow Morgan collectors — maybe @AuroraBorealis will chime in here and shed some light if he’s able.
I don’t consider my newp a monster, but a high end toner. The one posted by @Inspired70: monster!
This site has a terrific breakdown of monster Morgan toners by quality level, along with images of some of the better known collections of them...but I didn’t cross reference to see if I could pick out some of the recent RR Morgan’s here and there from the other groupings.
https://www.monstertonedmorgans.com/all-about-toned-morgans
That's what I imagine as well. It would be great to know more about the provenance of these.
The 1887 is ex-Sunnywood/Simpson and ex-Northern Lights prior to landing in the Roadrunner Collection.
Really cool piece you posted here, big like from me
This link here is great info, for those interested in this area.
Another cool toner from the collection.
@Inspired70 ... I’ve been inspired by your last 2 coins ... do you have 68 more by chance? 😆⭐️⭐️
Thank you SeattleSlammer. I do have quite a few. A big fan of toned Morgans. Here is one more.
Another from the Regency 41 sale — not mine — love the progression.
That is a beautiful 1881-S SeattleSlammer. Love the toning on both sides.
Very nice coins!
If this is a game of toned Morgan oneupsmanship, I’ll stay up all night long for it.
A lot of bag-toned coins (which this is) would have had one side of the coin up against the bag, while the other side was just touching the next coin. That leads to one side getting toned up and the other side seeing little if any color. Sure, sometimes you get a coin that may have been stuck in a fold of the bag so both sides tone, but that's not too common. Similarly, you get crescent toning when part of a side of a coin is up against the bag, but another coin is on top of the remainder of that side, preventing the overlapped area from toning.
Nice looker!
I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment
Not OK with this ending on page 2 just yet, so just sharing 2 random recent RR wins again here on THIS great thread - anyone else here pick up any others?
love this one, wow!
Great coin, David. Congrats.
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I was ready to buy some of those, but just could not get a reasonable bid in.......They went strong. Nice pieces.> @Inspired70 said:
This one is off the chart awesome.
@SeattleSlammer Very nice!
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This is one I was able to win from RR collection.
What are the most notable toned Morgan collections / hoards?
I can think of:
Are there others?
@Inspired70 , I also dig the slab shot of that monster — congrats !
@Inspired70 - that 85-O was my second favorite toner in the sale. Great coin!
Northern Lights had an outstanding group of toners. @gemtone65 has an exceptional collection as well. @Ezmoney has amazing Morgans and other type coins. Too bad I haven’t seen either of them post on these boards in a while.
Simpson had a nice batch of toned Morgan's sold some years ago if I recall?
Did Simpson's set have any differences with Sunnywood's? I've mostly seen Simpson's collection noted as "Sunnywood/Simpson". It's nice to note Simpson, especially if he did some set adjustments to Sunnywood's set.
Almost all of the 1896 and 1897 dollars were from a deal of original bags that broke on the midwest. Those toners went directly from the source to the RR collection. Included were the 1897 in 67 and the 1896 in 68.
Not sure, others might know better details about his set.> @Zoins said:
Well I have these two from a few years ago, and they say only Simpson (not Sunnywood) so I assume there were others with only Simpson noted on the holder.
Wow that's gorgeous @SeattleSlammer.
Wait til you see the ones your toddler wins!!
CNN is right. This is the 1897 from RR. Was able to secure this one for the collection. Only significant toned 1897 I have ever seen and also quality in MS67.
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This is the Sunnywood/SImpson collection registry.
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/dollars/morgan-dollars-major-sets/morgan-dollars-basic-set-circulation-strikes-1878-1921/imagegallery/71635
This was another outstanding coin from the auction (especially for someone doing a date or complete set). It’s by far the finest toned 1897 I have seen. Also, it only went for 2x a normal white one. Get a + on that and you’ll more than double your money!