Hey Bruce Scher - I Just Bid Over $12,500 for an 1877 3 center and....

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LOST! Did you see that 1877 in PR67CAM in the Heritage sale? It was a beauty!! Sold for over $13,000!

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Bear

Im sorry Mitch, If you had just told me you were interested

in that coin I would have...........well the damage is done now.

scher

wow thats something..i feel good about the one i bought long ago...didnt have the cam designation..old holder coin but it came back cam...about 2/3's of em came back cam and dcam..it would have been easier if we knew what was comin with those designations..thanks for the report mitch i feel good about my 3centers..
bruce scher

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ps..mitch i also have that date in a 66dc thats really a stunner i believve there are only of both the 66dc and the 67c..for a while i think i had the only one and that one in the auction i beleive was new...
bruce

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Bruce: Yes - this Heritage coin was a great coin. I don't collect the series, but I bid for the coin for my personal collection (I had no customer for the coin). Heritage told me I lost to an ebay bidder! That cost the ebay bidder another 5% (20% commish I believe on bay) - in which case, he bid close to $14,000 for the coin (last coin sold at $7k!). Oh well - you win some, and lose some (not sure which I did in this case, if you know what I mean).

Bruce- one thing I did notice and correct me if this is something you have not seen in the proof series. I have noticed lately that the quality of the DCAM coins is all over the place - ranging from super strong deep cameos to coins that I would have figured for just avg cams. The old "buy the coin and not the holder" appears to have invaded the proof 3 center series, from what I have seen. The old - "what would this coin be worth out of the holder" - seems to have become an issue with the series. Have you seen this as well, or is this simply my experience of seeing, perhaps, some low end coins simply heading to auction?

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