<< <i>looks like someone is stepping up to the plate and swinging for a homerun. Sammy Sosa would be proud. >>
Well said. I don't know why this bothers me so much. This has got to be the most troubling topic I have ever read on this forum. Oh well, off to work. I can't wait to see what others have to say.
I would hope that Mr. Casper is just pulling our leg about his knowledge of the coin's authenticity. A man of his stature would be an idiot or experiencing "mid-life crisis" to offer a coin of this "rarity" without well researched documentation. The reputation he has build would be severly compromised, much more than any profit he makes on this coin, even if it is $99,999.99. He'd lose that much business in a month or less.
"Say it ain't so, Mike"
and give us the real documentation on this coin.
PCGS sets under The Thomas Collections. Modern Commemoratives @ NGC under "One Coin at a Time". USMC Active 1966 thru 1970" The real War.
I've seen a couple of the Matte Proof Peace dollars in certification holders, and their surfaces did not look like this Morgan dollar. This thing is "too" sand blasted. It looks like the very early gold Matte Proofs that were super dull.
I'd stay away from this puppy regardless of what price is on it, unless it's $5. It's a pig in a poke.
Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
That piece looks to me like it went through possibly a similar process that people used to perform on $2.50 and $5.00 Indians to try and pass them off as the rare matte proofs.
I would say the odds of PCGS/NGC holdering that coin as a one of a kind matte or sandblast prrof are slim to none.
After this thread and the the subsequent canceling of the original listing, didn't the seller list the coin at a much higher open/BIN? I seem to remember that it got relisted at something like $50-100K. I see now it's down to $7500/10,000. That's lower than the original price. I don't see any evidence of the higher priced listing. Am I losing my mind?
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<< <i>looks like someone is stepping up to the plate and swinging for a homerun. Sammy Sosa would be proud. >>
Well said. I don't know why this bothers me so much. This has got to be the most troubling topic I have ever read on this forum. Oh well, off to work. I can't wait to see what others have to say.
"Say it ain't so, Mike"
and give us the real documentation on this coin.
I'd stay away from this puppy regardless of what price is on it, unless it's $5. It's a pig in a poke.
Andy got me to thinking that I didn't really know what I had. Perhaps I still don't? I gotta go chop firewood. Winter's round the corner...
Have fun, xoxox, MC
Michael I. Casper, Rare Coins, Inc.
Post Office Box 40
Ithaca, New York 14851
Phone: 607-257-5349
Fax: 607-266-7904
Email: michael@caspercoin.com
http://www.caspercoin.com
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I would say the odds of PCGS/NGC holdering that coin as a one of a kind matte or sandblast prrof are slim to none.
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