Seated Liberty stunners - Kaufman Collection at FUN

Blade

I received a solicitation from Heritage today to sell coins at the FUN auction in January. In the brochure are some beautiful photos of some of the highlights. The seated liberty coinage is amazing. It's from the Kaufman Collection I don't have a scanner, but they are awesome. Here are a few listed:

1863 Seated $1 PR68 NGC - A cover coin. Blue circle to rose to cameo center. Drool.
1891 Seated 50c PR68 Cameo NHC - Blazer
1873 No Arrows 50c PR67 NGC - Dark on the top 30%, then brown/rose in middle and untoned at bottom
1865 25c PR68 Cameo NGC - Blazer
1884 25c PR69 Cameo NGC - Looks minted yesterday. How does a coin this old get preserved in PR69?
1876 20c PR67 NGC - Blue at rims & rose red to the center.
1873 No Arrow 10c PR68 NGC - Neon blue on lower left 20%. White on the rest
1889 10c PR68 NGC - So pretty it's tough to describe. Bullseye, but there is a second circle starting in the center of Liberty and going upper right.
1859 H10c PR67 NGC - Blue to rose to white bullseye. Looks like my icon

When Heritage gets the auction pics, it is definitely worth the time to browse. Now where did I hide that extra million $$$?

FC57Coins

I got the same brochure and they are amazing. What intrigued me were the uncirculated Roman coins - kinda hard to fathom 2000 year old uncirculated coins! - Think plastic would hold up well after 2000 years?

Frank

Blade

Frank,
Maybe they were "conserved" like the SS Central America double eagles. Probably spent 2000 years in a clay pot under the desert somewhere.

Some other coins that amazed me were the IHCs:
1877 PCGS MS66 Red
1861 PCGS MS68 Red
1899 PCGS MS68 Red

I wish I could attend to view these lots!

FC57Coins

Same here Tom - I wish I could go - just viewing those pieces would be awesome. I thought the SLQ's were also beautiful - I'd love to see them up close. I think there was one that was MS68. And also a high grade 1916 - that would be awesome to see!

Frank