Eye candy for all the hepkats out thea.;-)

Cam40

`55 DCAM Franklin. PF68.

Will it hit the reserve?The BIN is alittle high...or no.What`do you all think.

LucyBop

Holy Smokes thats alot of cash for that coin.... And the scans or pics make the coin seem kinda dullish........ But I need this coin... I'll just bin it right now!

LucyBop

I was asleep you know, till the Frankie alarm went off and I knew I had to respond to this post!

MrKelso

wasn't the 55 the lowest mintage? i am not near a book to look right now.

LucyBop

the 55 the lowest mintage for Proofs? Good question. I don't think it was but, I don't have my Frankie book in front of me... I'll have to look this up and see what it sez.

MacCoin

PCGS daily price guide said 9000 thats a little pricey for this old country boy.

barberlover

People have sure gone deep cam crazy since the grading services started listing deep cam on there holders, maybe even to the point of the rediculas. If you owened alot of these beauties because you liked them a few years before the grading services started listing this designation on there slabs, and still have them now, you can probabley afford to retire! If you think this frankie is expensive, have you seen the prices on deep cameo proof indian cents!! [sure wish i had baught a few of those a few years ago. Maybe one day this will trickle down to real old mint state collector coins so that if a proof 68 deep cam franklin minted less then 50 years ago with a pop. of 11 is wirth almost 10,000 bucks, my mint state 66 1892 S barber half minted more than 110 years ago with a p.c.g.s. population of 2 should be wirth at least 25,000. barberlover

LucyBop

<< <i>my mint state 66 1892 S barber half minted more than 110 years ago with a p.c.g.s. population of 2 should be wirth at least 25,000. barberlover >>



How much is it worth?

barberlover

LucyBop, I'm not exactley sure, the p.c.g.s. value index says 5500-6750. But i will never sell my baby for anything close to those figures. My point of my responce was to say that some real rare old collector coins have not recovered since the crash, while more modern issues or newer designations on existing issues like cam and deep cam have sky rocketed. And i hope some day my mint state type coins will have the same appreciation from todays collectors who persue whats "hot" at the moment. Barberlover

ldhair

Went to a gun show many years back and there was a coin dealer set up in a corner. He was telling me I should be buying all the cameo Franklins I could find and put them away. He had a case full of them. I said sure and went to buy a gun instead. I should shoot myself with that same gun. That same money could have bought the whole case.

LucyBop

<< <i>But i will never sell my baby for anything close to those figures. >>



You keep it in your good home. Not to many will love it like you will.

KlectorKid

Lucy do u ever sleep?

TheNumish

ldhair-

Seems a little extreme to shoot yourself. I know, I know, you were being facetious.

If it makes you feel any better last June I bought a collection from a guy who for years was obsessed with cameo coins. Granted he kept his number one coins and this was everything else but it was still quite a large number of coins. I sent in about 100 coins and nothing came back from PCGS like that 1955. The chances of the guy at the gun show having a deep cameo in 68 is probably about zero. More than likely if he had some 1955 halves they would grade 65 cameo and I have one of those I'd sell for $125. I doubt if it really was a lost opportunity.

Now if you became an expert, developed the eye, went around picking off the deep cameos that's a different story but it was hard to do even back when they didn't grade coins. Also would take a lot of time. Those deep cameos are really, really hard to find compared to the boring old cameos.

LucyBop

<< <i>Lucy do u ever sleep? >>



The HepKitty takes Kat naps!

FC57Coins

A very "cakey" piece indeed. And if you notice, it's the pre-cursor to the 1956 Type I proof (look at the wings of the eagle). Anyway, I think you guys are absolutely right, the scarcity of this piece, along with the advent of the registry have sent this things through the roof. Although I agree wholeheartedly with Barberlover about the scarcity of Barbers vis-a-vie Franklins, you have to remember that one of the factors playing highly into the price structure of these pieces is the entry level prices for the series. As Numish pointed out, a PR65DCAM can be had for $125. You can't touch a barber in that condition for anywhere near that price. Hence not as many people collect them. Are they rearer - absolutely, but they're kind of "holy grail" type coins.

Frank