1908 Saint NEWP

asheland · July 7, 2021 12:18PM

What do you guys think?

pmh1nic · July 7, 2021 12:42PM

Very nice. If it wasn't for the darkened areas on the forearm, abdomen and knee I think it's easily 65+. One of my favorite designs. Head and shoulders better than the Liberty design that preceeded it.

airplanenut · July 7, 2021 12:44PM

Kinda hard to not like a big hunk of lustrous gold with a nice design

asheland · July 7, 2021 1:08PM

Thanks.

ricko · July 7, 2021 1:11PM

Beautiful coin and looks like the right grade... It could be the picture/lighting, but the reverse looks much better. Big gold, my favorite.... Cheers, RickO

DelawareDoons · July 7, 2021 1:19PM

My favorite type of Saint outside High Reliefs. Nice coin, congrats!

pursuitofliberty · July 7, 2021 1:39PM

She's got a good look, with clean obverse fields and nothing more than light chatter marks from what I can tell. Looks all there, and higher end for the grade. Nice!

ThreeCentSilverFL · July 7, 2021 1:49PM

I think it's sweet! Very clean fields. Great addition.

gumby1234 · July 7, 2021 1:57PM

Its beautiful

messydesk · July 7, 2021 2:06PM

Can't complain about that. The reverse looks fantastic. No nasty cuts across any of the rays on either side.

Swampboy · July 7, 2021 2:35PM

Great look for that classic coin

Congrats

coinsarefun · July 7, 2021 2:39PM

Beautiful!

ReadyFireAim · July 7, 2021 2:42PM

Nice pick-up
Pop 802/170 and looks to be on the the very high end of MS64. (yes I agree with JA on this one )
I'd send that one in for a recon and see if I could pick up a + & a TV.
Always liked the motto 08 (P,D or S) over the NM.

If you do get a TrueView...I'd like to see it.

BTW...They are very hard on grading 1908 mottos for some reason. Not so much on NM.
If that was a NM, it could possibly/maybe be a 65
All this you probably know.

https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts/coin/1908-20-motto/images/9147

Smudge · July 7, 2021 3:13PM

I like it, pretty color.

mark_dak · July 7, 2021 3:25PM

Nice pick up, recently picked up a raw 1908 NM I'm considering adding to my next submission.

Steven59 · July 7, 2021 5:32PM

Beautiful Saint........ probably my favorite coin design.

JJM · July 7, 2021 5:44PM

Very nice 👍

NumisOxide · July 7, 2021 6:57PM

Mmm big gold!

Boosibri · July 7, 2021 6:59PM

Really nice looking coin

thebeav · July 7, 2021 7:06PM

Nice, and one of my favorite dates......

Jimnight · July 7, 2021 7:42PM

That's a nice one!

Walkerfan · July 7, 2021 7:48PM

Love it!!! 😍

Kove · July 7, 2021 9:35PM

Good looking coin.

CoinJunkie · July 8, 2021 4:11AM

High end 64, for sure. Thumbs up!

jwitten · July 8, 2021 6:15AM

Gorgeous looking coin. Nice pick up!

SilverProofQuarter1883 · July 8, 2021 8:09AM

Awsome dude 👍👍👍

divecchia · July 8, 2021 8:42AM

She is a beauty for sure. It's on my list to get, but have not been able to find one I like. This one looks great for the grade.

Congrats on your pickup.

Donato

asheland · July 8, 2021 8:50AM

Thanks everybody! I’m happy with the addition.

asheland · July 8, 2021 8:52AM

@ricko said:
Beautiful coin and looks like the right grade... It could be the picture/lighting, but the reverse looks much better. Big gold, my favorite.... Cheers, RickO

The front is just as nice, but extremely hard to photograph.

asheland · July 8, 2021 8:53AM

@ReadyFireAim said:
Nice pick-up
Pop 802/170 and looks to be on the the very high end of MS64. (yes I agree with JA on this one )
I'd send that one in for a recon and see if I could pick up a + & a TV.
Always liked the motto 08 (P,D or S) over the NM.

If you do get a TrueView...I'd like to see it.

BTW...They are very hard on grading 1908 mottos for some reason. Not so much on NM.
If that was a NM, it could possibly/maybe be a 65
All this you probably know.

https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts/coin/1908-20-motto/images/9147

A reholder and true view is tempting….

ColonelJessup · July 8, 2021 9:09AM

very PQ. Eye appeal of a 66

edited to add: I expected the darker obverse tone to be an artifact of that lighting angle. I'm now at "grade-typical marks" with the same eye-appeal rating The texture of the frost is very different on the With Mottos than it is on the earlier '08s. The Wells Fargo coins are clean, frosty and singularly unexciting to look at compared to virtually any other date in the series, even in MS68 and (unseen, but likely) MS69.

asheland · July 8, 2021 11:58AM

I am very pleased to have found this one...

asheland · July 8, 2021 12:01PM

Here's a video of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7jsUgHqK0I

Kove · July 8, 2021 1:24PM

@asheland said:
Here's a video of it:

That video captures the mint frost in a way that the photo couldn't. Looks good.

I've bought several Saints in PCGS 64/CAC over the last few years. There's been very little premium to bullion (until lately it seems) and the CAC'd 64s are nice coins. Especially when you see some of the ratty-looking non-CAC 65s out there.