Nicest toned Oregon I have ever seen

jbsteven

amazing

Russ

Tonecoin2003?

Russ, NCNE

XpipedreamR

Link


I'd like to see it in person. It sure looks AT. Maybe the photo is tweaked?

jbsteven

<< <i>Tonecoin2003? >>



doh!

Russ

Well, he is getting better.

Russ, NCNE

byergo

This is one amazing, amazing coin!

Placid

PCGS graded Mint State 67
If I sent it in I would get a bb.

GAT

I own an 1926 Oregon MS65 and can tell you that this one dodn't get toned by itself!

jcping

Oregon. PCGS graded Mint State 67. Superb!
Minimum Bid $5,200.00



Will PCGS buy the coin back?

agentjim007

I was going to start a thread on this coin asking when is to much to much? I like toning but this one is just too much. Looks like the Easter eggs I use to color as a kid when you would dunk the eggs in the color floating on the water trying to swirl the egg around to pick up as much color as possible. I do not like this coin AT or NT.

LanLord

This is your Oregon commemorative after you've taken too much orange sunshine!

dragon

Color or no color, I think the Oregon is one of the prettiest designs of the whole series.

dragon

ArtR

Superior at times can over tweak a color coin. One more thing that coin looks very much like the one Mike DeFalco had on his site.

MadMonk

AT

jbsteven

the catalog has the colors tweaked even more than that photo.

291fifth

With the number of carbon specs visible there is no way that coin merits an MS67.

nOoBiEeE

I agree that the design is simply amazing but when I look at it, a little warning flashes in my head. I am sure that in person it looks different as the colors seemed to have been "adjusted".

Tonelover

<< <i>One more thing that coin looks very much like the one Mike DeFalco had on his site. >>



This one? Definitely the same coin

Coconut

NICE.....

rainbowroosie

I think that is 100% original toning and absolutely STUNNING! The $5200 price will rise...I'll guess $8200.

Russ

<< <i>This one? Definitely the same coin >>



In DeFalco's image the colors look much more natural.

Russ, NCNE

darktone

I just got my Santa Clara catalog and this coin sure caught my eye! mike

coinguy1

I viewed the Oregon in person, yesterday. While the color is not as florescent as in the catalog or images posted, it IS as beautiful AND, in my opinion, at least, unquestionably original.

I predict that it will bring a five figure price (as in more than $9999.99) - if it does not, I will be buying it.

agentjim007

I predict that it will bring a five figure price (as in more than $9999.99) - if it does not, I will be buying it.

A definite positive not being as florescent as pic. I guess you've sinched a price > $9999.99

LucyBop

good update, Mr. Feldini......

EVillageProwler

I, too, have seen the coin in person at the Portland show. As Feldini said, the coin is every bit as attractive as the catalog and online images make it out to be. I won't vouch for its technical grade, because it is irrelevant compared to the coin's overall eye appeal. And, it will be the eye appeal that will drive the coin's pricing.

As for its technical grade, I will say that the coin is very lustrous with very clean surfaces. The coin certainly merits technical consideration for SUPERB GEM status.

I would like to take this opportunity to caution the membership against micro-grading. For those who don't know, micro-grading is the practice of looking at a single aspect of a coin and then assessing a grade based solely on that single aspect. A coin's grade is in practice a composite grade of FOUR factors: luster, eye appeal, marks and strike.

I also would like to caution against the practice of trying to definitively assert a grade off an image; there's just no real chance of 100% faithfully capturing a 3D object into a 2D object.

And, those who try to micro-grade off a 2D image is really trying to teach himself the absolute wrong way to grade.

EVP

Bikingnut

Must be NT its in a PCGS holder.

Hadleydog

Guess I'm in the minority on this one as I think it is not only beautiful, but natural as well. It certainly helps it's credibility that Mike had it at one time.

Russ

<< <i>I predict that it will bring a five figure price (as in more than $9999.99) >>



I predict $18,000.

Russ, NCNE

RYK

I would like to take this opportunity to caution the membership against micro-grading. For those who don't know, micro-grading is the practice of looking at a single aspect of a coin and then assessing a grade based solely on that single aspect.

EVP,

Thank you for the warning. I tend to be guilty of this myself, but in a slightly different way. Instead of grading from one of the four aspects, I have a tendency to ignore one of the four (usually luster, sometimes strike), usually the one that is the greatest liability. My grades tend to get fudged upward.

Robert

TONEDDOLLARS

That is Mikes old coin. There was a previous thread on it.

Clankeye

As Feldini said,

good update, Mr. Feldini......


Gosh darn it, it's Feld-o-lini you guys (and gals). Saint Feldolini.


Clankeye

jom

<< <i>One more thing that coin looks very much like the one Mike DeFalco had on his site. >>



Yup, and I know people who've known this coin for years and it has NOT changed it's color. Therefore, one could conclude it is original color.

Bill Jones and Coinguy have it correct....

jom

TommyB

I was at Santa Clara today and saw this piece. The colors are that vivid, from any angle. gorgeous. I thought the lady said the bidding was at 20K this afternoon.

Russ

<< <i>I thought the lady said the bidding was at 20K this afternoon. >>



Their site currently shows zero bids.

Russ, NCNE

Bear

Why dont all the Forum Members pool our money and buy the coin.

Then based on how much we have contributed, we will be given time shares

to actually hold the coin. Based upon such number of shares, will be each persons

portion of the money, when the coin is resold for a gazillion dollars.

RGL

Astounding ... I don't even collect Commems, as a rule, but I do have a nice slabbed MS-66 Oregon because I love the Frasers' design so. Texas is perhaps my second favorite.

ColonialCoinUnion

I don't like it and I wouldn't be too keen to pay a premium (perhaps 'premium' is an understatement when we are talking about $18,000) for NT that looks like AT.

Sorry,

Union

Russ

Looks like it hammered down at $55,000.00

I guess my estimate of $18,000 was a little low.

Russ, NCNE

wondercoin

$69,000 to be exact.

Wondercoin

Clankeye

Color me amazed.

Clankeye

Bustman

That is a truly amazing hammer price. Makes me feel a bit better about some of the coins I have stretched for.