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Well, I'm officially in love with patterns...

coinlieutenantcoinlieutenant Posts: 9,318 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Just got my first pattern in the mail today from Mr. Rick Kay. I must say that my bank account is very sad that I was happy....



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  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    Awesome coin! Rick is a great dealer with an eye for quality pieces. You can't go wrong.

    Cameron Kiefer
  • WWWWWW Posts: 2,609 ✭✭✭
    Hey John, that's a terrific looking coin. I love that obverse design.
  • fcloudfcloud Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭
    Cool. When I first saw the obverse, I thought it was going to be a Silver Dollar size coin. But it is just the right size one dime. I can see why you love patterns!

    President, Racine Numismatic Society 2013-2014; Variety Resource Dimes; See 6/8/12 CDN for my article on Winged Liberty Dimes; Ebay

  • BustmanBustman Posts: 1,911 ✭
    Gorgeous! Enjoy John. I wish you many more!
  • uofa1285uofa1285 Posts: 2,252 ✭✭
    Monstrous! Congrats John! (Can't wait to get my Bust Half!)

    Doug
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  • RKKayRKKay Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭
    John - I'm very happy that I have helped persuade someone that patterns are worthwhile. Enjoy it.
    Rick Kay
    Specializing in 1854 and 1855 large FE patterns

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  • RGLRGL Posts: 3,784 ✭
    Expensive, but beautiful habit ... image
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  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,333 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I photographed that (and many others) at Rick's table in Baltimore... I remember that one being a real stunner out of the bunch image

    Jeremy
    JK Coin Photography - eBay Consignments | High Quality Photos | LOW Prices | 20% of Consignment Proceeds Go to Pancreatic Cancer Research
  • ARCOARCO Posts: 4,422 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sweet coin John! Toned patterns have no equal. Will have to see if I can find a nice one.

    Tyler
  • mdwoodsmdwoods Posts: 5,556 ✭✭✭
    Patterns are very cool. I'd love to have a copper half dollar. Your copper dime is gorgeous. Rick is a great guy.
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  • coinlieutenantcoinlieutenant Posts: 9,318 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I highly recommend the Judd book (again Thanks Rick)...

    For those searching for patterns, get the book, keep an eye out and I am sure people like Rick will be willing to help out.

    In talking with Rick, I decided to buy from him because I could tell he has a real passion for numismatics (and great coins!!). I usually buy from auction or from finding stuff myself, not from dealers. UNLESS, they are a numismatist first, dealer second. Rick fits that description perfectly...

    V.r,
    John

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  • RiffRaff1967RiffRaff1967 Posts: 405
    Way cool - the colors are outrageous! image
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  • nuckleheadnucklehead Posts: 1,500 ✭
    Great coin! and you dealt with one if not the best of the best guys in the coin hobby.
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  • orevilleoreville Posts: 12,121 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How can anyone not like that pattern? Looks like a wonderful transaction but I do have one beef!!

    How can you be OFFICIALLY in love with patterns? That is an oxymoron!!! You can only be UNOFFICIALLY in love with patterns!!!image

    Yes, I met RKKay too and I must say I took an immediate liking to him.

    Pattern dimes are among my favorite and one of them in my collection is of the Liberty seated design on the obverse without the date (it was minted in 1870) and it is the J-714 in NGC PR65.

    I call it my poor man's version of the 1837 seated dime without the stars and in fact sits in my collection of seated dimes in the 1837 slot. Others find it strange nowadays to hear of patterns being poor mans coins. But truthfully, that is how I bought them.

    NGC slabbed it back in 1996 (or 1997, I forget) and now think it is undergraded. NGC was nearly as tough as PCGS in 1996.
    A Collectors Universe poster since 1997!
  • Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,648 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What a knock-out!!! How cool is that?

    Nice work....

    Dave
    Always looking for original, better date VF20-VF35 Barber quarters and halves, and a quality beer.
  • MercMerc Posts: 1,646 ✭✭
    Interesting pattern coin. I've only seen that one in pictures.

    I saw a pattern in a dealer's case at my last coin show. Another dealer I knew asked him to get them out for me. This was a small time dealer with 1 case, but he had 5 PCGS graded patterns. I was surprised to see so many at once. That dealer told me he likes to show them and doesn't care if they sell or not.
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  • CaseyCasey Posts: 1,502 ✭✭
    Very nice John! That is a knockout.
  • coinlieutenantcoinlieutenant Posts: 9,318 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks all for the compliments. I recommend getting one for your collection.

    Oreville,
    Do you have any pics?

    John

    siliconvalleycoins.com

  • LokiLoki Posts: 897 ✭✭
    Great coin! Congrats image
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    STUNNING coin!!!

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    RKK is indeed first-rate!

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  • MadMonkMadMonk Posts: 3,743 ✭
    Man! Now that is a gorgeous piece! Good for you LT.
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  • GeminiGemini Posts: 3,085 ✭
    Very nice interesting piece....at least they adopted the reverse.
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  • razorface1027razorface1027 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭
    I don't know the guy......THE COIN is ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!...wtg CL...image
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  • XpipedreamRXpipedreamR Posts: 8,059 ✭✭
    This coin is smokin' hot!!!!!!!! I'd love to see it in person
  • MyriadsMyriads Posts: 243
    That's a wonderful coin and a great design. My congratulations on adding it to your collection. As a Liberty Nickel collector I sort of long for the 1882 pattern that looks like a regular issue of the series :-)

    Question about the Judd book, of which I have heard much, but never have seen a copy of. How illustraited is it? Images for everything? Drawings? or description?

    Myriads
  • shylockshylock Posts: 4,288 ✭✭✭
    Great looking pattern, congrats!
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  • RKKayRKKay Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭
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    Myriads - Every die pair, for the most part, has a picture. There is also a nice section about patterns at the beginning of the book.
    Rick Kay
    Specializing in 1854 and 1855 large FE patterns

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  • SeattleSlammerSeattleSlammer Posts: 10,045 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Beautiful mirrors and classy color........winner!!!
  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭

    coinlieutenant- Now that's enough to make anyone fall in love with patterns! Enjoy it!!!

    Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.

  • MyriadsMyriads Posts: 243
    Rick,

    Thanks for the info about the Judd book, and for sharing the pictures of the Nickel pattern! I always enjoy seeing it. :-)

    Myriads
  • RKKayRKKay Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭
    Myriads - Glad you liked it. Here is the reverse of an 1883 J-1717.
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    Rick Kay
    Specializing in 1854 and 1855 large FE patterns

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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,443 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Beautiful pattern. Love those copper ones.....congrats!

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  • MacCoinMacCoin Posts: 2,544 ✭✭
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    I hate it when you see my post before I can edit the spelling.

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  • coinrookiecoinrookie Posts: 794
    Beautiful coin. For me, the toning just makes that design stand out more than a white example. I really love it. Unfortuneately, I have champagne taste on a beer pocketbookimage
  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,722 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Dasm, that is really a cool looking coin, as are the other patterns on this thread.
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,362 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Shameless plug for the Society of US Pattern Collectors web site!
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  • MyriadsMyriads Posts: 243
    And I get to thank Rick again.

    I had time to enjoy his wonderful site this morning, and have to say that it's a great bit of work to have created and shared with the collecting community. I've always enjoyed patterns in that 'Ah it might have been way' and being able to look at them all in one place is the sort of thing that I always hoped for back in the 80's.

    So many nice designs that were passed over in favor of the ones we got. I know that it was often due to technical issues, but such a shame that coins like the one that started this thread could not have been made. I guess not much has changed, given the possible choices we had for the new Sac dollar, and what we got... Politics and coins never mix well. Bah!

    Myriads

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