Tough Jefferson and a Link.

keets

.........and so I was looking around on eBay the other day and came across this bugger and decided I had better "watch" it. Then I thought I'd tip others to it.

I was struck by the fact that the latest PCGS pop report has it listed at only 18 in PR69DCAM which makes it more elusive than the 1969 in that grade.

If I'm not mistaken, Todd Abbey is over at Cameo CC and is a recent forum member. Is anyone familiar with them, bought from them. They are located a scant 40 miles away. What a bummer-----I hooked up online with their "want list" for 1968-1975 jeff's in PR69DCAM but they've never contacted me. I guess they figure they'll get a better dollar on eBay.

I'll add some personal insight as to what I see as the most difficult coins in PR69DCAM for jefferson dates between 1968-1975. The three "toughies" in order are 1971, 1969 and 1972. I just am unable to locate a suitable 1971 with good cameo and clean fields. Coins with adequate cameo are easy but the fields always seem marked or very badly hazed. what makes it more frustrating is that proof sets are less than $5 a crack!!! With the 1969, it's just a problem of finding cameo coins where the devices are covered with frost. I guess they had a tight budget that year so they over-worked the dies. On the bright side here I picked up two sets last week that i need to crack. With 1972 jefferson's it seems a problem of poor fields. Nicely frosted coins seem to abound, but carbon and other spotting is prevelant.

Any thought about these three dates or a guess as to where this particular coin will close? i'm gonna e-mail for a reverse scan. Can't figure why a seller would list a coin like this and not pony-up the additional quarter for a reverse pic!!!

Thanks guys.

Al H.

CarlWohlforth

The extra pic is free if you can host it yourself

I was thinking about buying some 1971 proof sets. I looked through all I could find at the last show I went to and they all had poor Jeffersons. That was the toughest post '64 year for me.

BNE

Thanks, Keets! I need this one, too, and am watching it. I guess that it will go for around $250; $325 if there are several determined bidders: I have found '72 and '73 surprisingly tough to locate in 69DCAM.

I guess I lucked out on my '69 69DCAM -- it does have really thick frost. My '68 and my '69 are superior coins: I think I read somewhere that when these come nice, they come treally nice. '71 is indeed tough to find with a really appealing look.

But for me, '72 and '73s have been the most tough to spot. Maybe I'll get lucky this time.

keets

hello liked minded jeff nuts!!!!!

carl, i went and looked at your set before i started the thread and noticed it is no longer current. is that something i missed before or a new development?

i got my 1971 in PR68DCAM from morris about a year ago and a 1968 same grade from SP over the summer. while i'm convinced i should be able to find the remaining dates----1969, 1970, 1972, 1973----in sets, i haven't so far. in the meantime, i have all these proof sets to get rid of. i think i'll have an eBay fire-sale after the first of the year. i gave up looking for those years online and they are never at any show i attend. i think most collectors underestimate early 70's proof coins across the board. top quality coins are just hard to find, no matter what denomination.

al h.

CarlWohlforth

For a while there I was thinking I would only have one proof Jefferson set, the '38-present with varieties. But the with varieties doesn't show up as easily as the basic set so I just re-registered the basic set. I don't think I'm going to enter the same coins in the shorter Jefferson sets though, for one thing it is too hard to update if I get an upgrade

My '71 is only 2 serial numbers away from my '70. I bought them at the same time from the same person so I'll bet he made them. It looks like I paid way more than for them than this '72 will go for...

TWQG

As high bidder, I command all of you to stay away from it

RGL

Geesh, I had this coin marked on my watch list as well. With BNE in pursuit -- he has been known to spend a few nickels in pursuit of a coin -- I do not feel good about my chances ... Keets is right that 71 is one tough coin to come up with. I, too, have been scouting out some promising '71 proof sets only to get sniped at the last second by a dealer familiar to these boards. Oh well, at least I appear to have "good?" taste...

keets

hey sean

how can it be that thewashingtonquarterguy is bidding on a nickel and begs restraint?!?!?!?!?! my sniping finger is already a-twitchin' in anticipation!!

al h.

TWQG

I love every coin! And this one is tough. I've been dabbling in Jefferson's lately. I've got a 71 and 73 in 8 on the way