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I can't spam a sold coin, right? Images/description

coinguy1coinguy1 Posts: 13,484 ✭✭✭
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Recently, we had the pleasure to handle the coin below. Hopefully, the description and images will give you a good feel for what it looked like. It was sold to a forum member, whose identity will remain a secret, unless he chooses to unmask himself.


"One of the prettiest and most appealing business strike Trade Dollars of any grade, that we have handled in a long time! The delicate pink central obverse gives way to a lovely blend of turquoise-green, rose, violet and russet along the border from 5:00 to 2:00. The reverse possesses a faint champagne patina and is exceptionally choice for the grade. Sharply struck and about as good as it gets for an MS64 of this scarce and under-appreciated type."





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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    Hey Mark,

    Could you write my auction descriptions for me?image

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  • VonZipperVonZipper Posts: 707
    Sure looks nicer than a MS64. Woweee!!!!! image

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    ....inflation must be kicking in again this dollar says spend by Dec. 31 2004!

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  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    I remember seeing that on your web site. And I can announce that I'm the owner.
























    of the image?


















    not really. image
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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,413 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You forgot "fulsome" - don't you read the Heritage catalogs??

    So, what's wrong with it??
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  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    I love the way the deepest orange/gold halos Liberty's head.

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  • stmanstman Posts: 11,352 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've been wanting a nice Trade Dollar. This ones a beauty and I like it. Now if I'm right? Although a couple faint print lines are a fact of life sometimes, if those are prints on left obv field they would bother me. I take a coin in balance, but on a large coin if it's mottled from a print it would and does bother me.

    I also understand a print will show more in an image than in person.
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  • DHeathDHeath Posts: 8,472 ✭✭✭
    Looks mighty clean for a 64 Mr.Feld.image
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  • barberloverbarberlover Posts: 2,228 ✭✭
    Mark, that dollar has "the look" if i saw that coin first, i would have gone in hock to buy it. barberlover
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  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,162 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Attractively toned trade dollars are very difficult to find. As you know, I consider the design to be one of the best ever put out by the mint. A high end MS64 coin can be quite a beauty! And since there have been lonly about 100 MS65 or better coins certified, it can represent a lot of value as well!

    Here's an interesting fact: A big chunk of all the superb gem trade dollars were found in a single group of 25 in a safe deposit box in Seattle! That's why the 1878-S comprises such a large percentage of the high grade pieces.
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  • coinguy1coinguy1 Posts: 13,484 ✭✭✭
    Replies (brief ones, for a change):

    Russ, I could, but I wont - sorry. image

    nwcs - good one!

    Lakesammman - I do and not much.

    Clankeye - I'm surprised you like it - I didn't think it was mottled/speckled enough for you. image

    stman - from my recollection, what you are seeing is not a print. If it is, it sure didn't bother me.

    barberlover - even if you had seen it first, you couldn't have had it. Your wife told me you can only by Barber dimes, quarters and halves until further notice. image

    TDN - thanks for the added information.
  • TomBTomB Posts: 21,592 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I actually don't think that there is a print on the obverse, it looks more like that type of whispy incomplete penetrance of toning that is seen on some coins. I have a few Washington quarters that don't have prints on them but that do have that broken toning pattern. As barberlover said previously, the coin has "the look".
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  • stmanstman Posts: 11,352 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's not a big deal, but I'm seeing print on my monitor. TomB, I understand what you mean about the whispy toning, But I'm seeing actual print lines. So we agree to disagree?image
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  • TomBTomB Posts: 21,592 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No problems about agreeing to disagree!image Anyway, I see what you are saying about what you think is a print. The reason I don't think it's a print is because there are no bifurcation points within the lines. A print will have bifurcation points everywhere.
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    In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson

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  • stmanstman Posts: 11,352 ✭✭✭✭✭
    TomB, I'll take your word for some reason.image But when I see those kind of wispy lines my guard goes up. I understand sometimes it can just be the toning and that's it. Like I mentioned earlier, I think the coin is a beauty.
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  • michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭
    surerlative and as an added bonus a really uncommon toned coin like that with great eye appeal!
    and a super duper nice 64

    i would love to see this coin in person as it looks 65 to me

    sincerely michael

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