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Typetone Purple Proof Indian Set

TypetoneTypetone Posts: 1,621 ✭✭
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Now that I have three IHC toned proofs, I decided to start a registry set. Still have a very long way to go. Here are the latest two images and a repeat of the previous.

Greg

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  • BNEBNE Posts: 772 ✭
    Ooooooooooooooooooooooh! They are really pretty, and each one has its own personality.
    "The essence of sleight of hand is distraction and misdirection. If smoeone can be convinced that he has, through his own perspicacity, divined your hidden purposes, he will not look further."

    William S. Burroughs, Cities of the Red Night
  • CarlWohlforthCarlWohlforth Posts: 11,074 ✭
    What a great idea! I wonder if you could finish that set with all colorful Indians? That would be a tough task!
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  • michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭
    super superb!! superb and superb

    sincerely michael
  • supercoinsupercoin Posts: 2,323 ✭
    image

    Ooooohhh!

    Aaahhhhh!
    imageLibertarian Party
  • CarlWohlforthCarlWohlforth Posts: 11,074 ✭
    It is always fun to get a reaction from Super!!! Thanks for that very appropriate graphic which is the perfect salute to the start of such a wild set!
    Carl's Coins website w/ links to Carl's auctions
  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    Excellant choice Greg and wonderful coins. Good luck with the set.
    Bill

    image

    09/07/2006
  • EagleEyeEagleEye Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great coins. Here's some info which I wrote for the Gorrell cale catalog:

    Prior to 1878 it was Mint custom to a strike a certain amount of proofs for sets and singles, probably on the order of 1000 pieces. At the end of the year, the leftover pieces were destroyed, either by recoinage or by being placed illegally into circulation. Minor proof issues were not carried on the books as true circulating coinage, so no one knows how many coins were struck. Nor do we known how many were sold, spent, or otherwise destroyed. Beginning in 1878, and continuing beyond the end of the series, David U. Proskey, a Philadelphia dealer, as well as some others began buying the entire issue of unsold minor coins from the Mint. Many of the coins bought by Proskey remained in a huge hoard and was later passed on to Wyate Raymond and F. C.C. Boyd. Raymond’s coins were sold to various dealers in the early 1940’s. Charles French, whos Troy, NY firm “French’s” listed these in ads in “The Numismatist” in the 1940’s The Boyd part of the hoard coins were sold to the Tatam Stamp & Coin of Springfield, MA. Many of the coins were stored in their original Mint wrappers for 30 to 60 years which imparted a iridescent blue, purple and magenta toning. These beautiful coins, when found, now get the BN color designation.

    By the way, there are many collectors in competition for these coins. I handle many of them, but they never seem to last. Currently I get $800 for PR66BN's and $500 for PR65BN's with purple toning.
    Rick Snow, Eagle Eye Rare Coins, Inc.Check out my new web site:
  • IrishMikeIrishMike Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭
    Rick, you need to work on your photos for those proofs. We talked about that the night you and Tim were eating buffalo.image
  • EagleEyeEagleEye Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes, your right proofs are hard to capture. Typetone's pics are great. What light source did you use?
    Rick Snow, Eagle Eye Rare Coins, Inc.Check out my new web site:
  • TypetoneTypetone Posts: 1,621 ✭✭
    Actually, I bought the three from Pinnacle-Rarities and they imaged them for me. Their set-up uses natural outside light through a window plus a regular incandescent blub I believe. I will check and see if other info is available.

    Greg
  • coinguy1coinguy1 Posts: 13,484 ✭✭✭
    Here is a reply to questions about our imaging of toned Proof Indian Cents:

    link to a new thread
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