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Started to list this on the BST forum.

WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭

And then deleted the listing.

But what you would have had a chance to buy, if I hadn't gotten the FOMO shakes™:

Jaw-dropping toned 1993 Madison $5 Gold

1993 Madison / Bill of Rights $5 Gold
Uncirculated
Pristine PCGS MS70 OGH Gen 3.1 (1993-1998)
Mintage 23,266
Exceptional dark honey amber tone obverse and reverse

One of the most attractively toned gold coins I've owned, and certainly one of the best toners from the modern commem series.

We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
--Severian the Lame

Comments

  • MarkMark Posts: 3,541 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Well, if you are starting an auction, I'll top @Meltdown because I'll also pay melt plus kick in $5 toward shipping. o:)

    Seriously, that is a quite pretty coin. Toning on these gold commems must be very scarce.

    Mark


  • justindanjustindan Posts: 728 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Great toning!

  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,797 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Pretty coin, but not in an area I collect.

  • gumby1234gumby1234 Posts: 5,588 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like the old silver in the background better.

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  • neildrobertsonneildrobertson Posts: 1,214 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I love it.

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  • nexlevelnmxnexlevelnmx Posts: 335 ✭✭✭

    Great looking toning

  • MilesWaitsMilesWaits Posts: 5,363 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You’ were right, you made the right decision, whatever you could’ve gotten out of it near spot (folks here are clued in on commemoratives) on the BST, better to keep. Sweet toning.

    Now riding the swell in PM's and surf.
  • OKbustchaserOKbustchaser Posts: 5,486 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 28, 2023 1:14PM

    @Mark said:
    Well, if you are starting an auction, I'll top @Meltdown because I'll also pay melt plus kick in $5 toward shipping. o:)

    Seriously, that is a quite pretty coin. Toning on these gold commems must be very scarce.

    I'll raise Mark and even cover the CC 3%. o:)

    And I don't even like gold.

    Just because I'm old doesn't mean I don't love to look at a pretty bust.
  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,123 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't collect modern gold, but your coin is a beaut, that I wouldn't mind owning. Time to get it CAC'd ;)

    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @OPA said:
    I don't collect modern gold, but your coin is a beaut, that I wouldn't mind owning. Time to get it CAC'd ;)

    Who knows?

    Maybe it'll go MS71. ;)

    Pete

    "I tell them there's no problems.....only solutions" - John Lennon
  • silviosisilviosi Posts: 458 ✭✭✭

    @ WEISS

    Your silver coin near the beauty has something stamp on side?? Sorry I ask, and also if you sell that one?

    Thanks

    NEVER ARGUE WITH AN IDIOT.FIRST THEY WILL DRAG YOU DOWN TO THEIR LEVEL.THEN, THEY WILL BEAT YOU WITH EXPERIENCE. MARK TWAIN

  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @silviosi said:

    @ WEISS

    Your silver coin near the beauty has something stamp on side?? Sorry I ask, and also if you sell that one?

    Thanks

    Thank you. There is a chop mark on the shield of the trade dollar on the left. But no, none of these are for sale.

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • MilesWaitsMilesWaits Posts: 5,363 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 28, 2023 4:11PM

    Yes to the junk silver! Not quite so esoteric, though……

    Now riding the swell in PM's and surf.
  • silviosisilviosi Posts: 458 ✭✭✭

    Thank you Weiss.

    NEVER ARGUE WITH AN IDIOT.FIRST THEY WILL DRAG YOU DOWN TO THEIR LEVEL.THEN, THEY WILL BEAT YOU WITH EXPERIENCE. MARK TWAIN

  • jwittenjwitten Posts: 5,187 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I’ve owned several modern gold in ogh with great toning. There are several out there with nice purple rim toning. Not sure what it is about those holders that does it, but I like it. Great coin!

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    :s Needs that surface contamination dipped off..... ;) Cheers, RickO

  • maymay Posts: 1,585 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BuffaloIronTail said:

    Who knows?

    Maybe it'll go MS71. ;)

    Pete

    I’ve thought of that sometimes, (late at night of course) PCGS say if a coin has “Amazing” eye appeal, it can be bumped up a grade. But what if this coin is MS70/69? ;)

    Type collector, mainly into Seated. -formerly Ownerofawheatiehorde. Good BST transactions with: mirabela, OKCC, MICHAELDIXON, Gerard

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