Well it IS a reeded edge cent, with a nice pedigree to boot!
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Just won over at HA. They list as an R-6, but taking the three die varieties into account it’s a high R-7 with only three examples traced. My auction notes simply read “great!” which I very seldom write unless it’s much nicer than “nice”, “v. nice” or even “v.v. nice” which again is seldom used.
Because I will most likely never own a real “reeded edge cent” this one will have to do. And it’ll be an honor to take care of this for “The Dean of Numismatics”
Cheers!
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Next you just need to get the 1937 reeded edge Lincoln cents made for Ira Reed and sold at the 1941 ANA Convention.
https://coins.ha.com/itm/lincoln-cents/1937-1c-lincoln-cent-and-buffalo-nickel-reeded-edge-set-uncirculated-uncertified-total-2-coins-/a/1236-3160.s
In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
Very nice
You're giving me serious flashbacks with this coin...... Your new purchase was the first pattern coin I ever bought from the first auction I ever attended 40 years ago..... Bowers and Merena's sale of the Abe Kosoff estate. I remember lot viewing where I "discovered" pattern coins and was instantly hooked. I walked down to Stacks, bought a copy of the Judd book and spent hours looking through the pages where I discovered Morgan patterns. I was working on a set of proof Morgan dollars at the time and I became obsessed with acquiring a Morgan dime which led to the quarters .... half dollar and dollar patterns. It's been so long now I don't remember where or why I sold it but if you ever get tired of it ........
well, that IS great! congrats, and thanks for sharing!
I am a newer collector (started April 2020), and I primarily focus on U.S. Half Cents and Type Coins. Early copper is my favorite.
That is a sweet coin! Is this the only Cameo example out there?
I was able to cherrypick one of these raw a few years back. It was raw and the dealer had it graded PF63. They did not notice the reeded edge!
That appears to be the “high date” version, where mine is the “low date”. PCGS has a 65CAM graded in each variety. Both J-300
Edited to add:
@boiler78 , that’s awesome! I could add your name to the pedigree list!
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Abe Kosoff was a nice guy. I was introduced to him by Margo Russell at the 1976 ANA in New York. I was a young nobody and he was quite gracious, though the fact that I worked for Margo might have helped.
He was emcee at the Banquet that year. His monologue was quite funny. The show was at the old Americana Hotel, which at the time had seen better days, and he quipped that we were all "paying good dollars for bad quarters!"
Later when I was working on my article on Thomas Elder for The Numismatist I asked him at a show if he had known Elder and if he could tell me any stories about his. He began by saying "Well, my Mother taught me that if I can't say anything nice about someone I shouldn't say anything at all."
He then went on to tell me about an Elder auction he was at some time in the 1920's. Elder was calling the sale, and when some man in the audience got up to leave he stopped the auction and yelled at him "You goddam (esso bee)! What's the idea of walking out of here when you haven't paid me for your purchases from the last sale?" The man turned, stared at Elder without saying a word, and left. He proceeded to his lawyer, who sent Mr. Elder a letter informing him that he had mistaken his client for somebody else, and demanding that Mr. Elder publish a written apology in his next sale as well as give his client a verbal apology at the start of that sale. He got it.
I did submit a few corrections and suggestions to Abe that got included in the Judd catalogue. He always sent thank you notes.