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*** 1927 PCGS MS-65 $20 Gold Saint Gaudens -- New Improved Photos ***

StuartStuart Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Several of you $20 Saint Gaudens Double Eagle lovers who posted in the following sister thread Stuart's PCGS Coin Grades Revealed Thread Link requested that I post an image of the 1927 PCGS MS-65 Saint that I just received back from PCGS...

Your wish is my pleasure. Here she is...

1927 PCGS MS-65 $20 Saint Gaudens image
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Stuart

Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal

"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"

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  • ksteelheaderksteelheader Posts: 11,777 ✭
    I like it...imageimageimage
  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,149 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You like that ugly POS? Please, I'll pay shipping so you can get it out of your sight because I'm so nice.

    You're welcome,

    Jeremy
    JK Coin Photography - eBay Consignments | High Quality Photos | LOW Prices | 20% of Consignment Proceeds Go to Pancreatic Cancer Research
  • FC57CoinsFC57Coins Posts: 9,140 ✭
    Just wait till gold get's down below $300 an ounce! image


    Beautiful! image
  • StuartStuart Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ken, Jeremy & Frank: Thanks! She's a keeper!! image

    I am very pleased to have made an MS-65 Saint from one of my old friends in my raw coin collection -- It's cheaper than buying one at today's market prices image

    Stuart

    Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal

    "Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,149 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>It's cheaper than buying one at today's market prices >>

    But making a YN's year is priceless imageimageimageimage
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  • dizzleccdizzlecc Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭

    Super strike, I was afraid she was about to jump off the coin and beat me with a stick.

    add me to the list since it sounds like a good give away.
  • UnimentalUnimental Posts: 244
    I can't wait to get mine... 5 more months of payments. image
    You shout in your sleep.
    Perhaps the price is just too steep.
    Is your conscience at rest if once put to the test?
    You awake with a start to just the beating of your heart.
    Just one man beneath the sky,
    Just two ears, just two eyes.
  • StuartStuart Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Damian & Jeremy: Thanks for your compliments on my newly annointed 1927 PCGS MS-65 $20 Saint image. She's staying in the family for a long time image

    Stuart

    Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal

    "Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
  • dollardudedollardude Posts: 1,263
    Stuart,

    I'm running out of compliments for your coins! This one is yet another winner. Do you have full sets of the coins you posted, or are these type coins?

    Dan
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  • StuartStuart Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭✭✭
    DollarDude: Thanks for your kind words. The only sets that I am consciously building are a set of PL/DMPL Morgans, and a few dates in the $20 Saint and $20 Liberty Series.

    I do love PL/DMPL Morgans & $20 Liberties, as well as PL/DMPL/Proof Type Coins with an emphasis on the larger denomination Gold & Silver Coins. I have registry sets (no photos yet) posted on both the PCGS and NGC Registries for Morgans, $20 Gold Libs & Saints as well as Type Coins.

    I have also always love the $20 Saint Gaudens coins, and carefully seek out semi-PL very high luster coins -- because I feel that the most lustrous Saints are the most beautiful -- similar to the Peace Dollar series.

    I also have a small date set of Capped Bust Halves which I fele are very undervalued. I try to purchase classic coins coins below the commercial market radar screen, and do not generally go for the hottest coins in the current market.

    Stuart

    Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal

    "Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
  • classiccoinclassiccoin Posts: 263
    sheeesh, how did that thing ever get in a 65 holder with all that field chatter and those hits and spots especially the deep large cut right on her breast??????? i got a couple 63's that look better
    when judgement day comes..
  • StuartStuart Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ClassicCoin: The incredible mint luster, the "orange peel" coloration and the strong strike probably bumped it up to MS-65 from a potential MS-64.

    It's a real blazer with beautiful orange gold velvety luster image I agree with you, however, that some MS-63 Saints are probably undergraded with lots of eye appeal -- I own a few myself image

    Stuart

    Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal

    "Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    That is a very nice coin! It is very hard to find Saints with that color and with minimal hits!
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    A gorgeous Saint, Stuart. And a very good job of imaging it.

    Pretty exciting getting a group of coins back from submission. More so when you agree with the grades.

    Congratulations on the coins, and thanks for sharing them with us.

    image

    Clankeye
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  • northcoinnorthcoin Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just think you are only 6 years away from the multi million dollar 1933 Saint.
  • StuartStuart Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Marty, Clankeye & Northcoin: Thanks for your kind words regarding my 1927 PCGS MS-65 Saint. She's a real glowing beauty image

    Stuart

    Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal

    "Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
  • RBB617RBB617 Posts: 498 ✭✭
    Stuart - Another beauty. I'll bet she oozes luster in hand. Congratulations.
    Brian
  • StuartStuart Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Brian: Thanks for your kind words of encouragement on this pretty 1927 Saint and also for taking the time to read all of my recent posts image

    Stuart

    Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal

    "Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
  • orevilleoreville Posts: 11,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Stuart: Wonderful frosty luster on that Saint Gaudens. You picked up the essense of the luster I like so much.

    Yes, it does have some chatter on the knee, eagle's feathers, sun and sun rays which makes me think MS-64 but perhaps if you resize the picture to actual size the chatter might appear much less apparent to give it the proper grade of MS-65? That is the difficulty of looking at such large pics!!

    Lovely coin indeed!

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  • LAWMANLAWMAN Posts: 1,274 ✭✭
    Agree with Stuart: I've got 4 - 2 '27's, 2- 24's, all MS 65. Yours has some serious scuff marks, but more than makes up for it with the orange peel effect and the lustre. I have one like that, a '27. All four of mine are old, green label, and I've been tempted for a long time to submit the orange peel '27 and see if it can climb up to MS-66. Nice submission in this day and age.
    DSW
  • StuartStuart Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Oreville and Lawman: Thanks for your posts and for providing your insight on my 1927 $20 Saint -- It's the first and only Saint that I've had certified -- better quit while I'm ahead image

    Stuart

    Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal

    "Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
  • JadeRareCoinJadeRareCoin Posts: 2,768 ✭
    Stuart, congrats on your 27 Saint. Nice........VERY Nice. I agree with the grade, based on your excellent photography skills. I should hire you to buy our gold!
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  • StuartStuart Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Dennis: Thanks for your compliments on my my improving photography skills and on the favorite 1927 $20 Saint in my collection. I agree that she is a glowing beauty and definitely a keeper!!

    As for being a Gold Buyer, it's got a good ring to it, and sounds like an interesting potential career path when I get tired of working as a seismic services International Marketing Manager in the Petroleum Industry.

    I always enjoy searching through hundreds of coisn to find that one "just right" coin. I was also pleased with the PL 1907-S $20 Liberty (pictured below) that I picked up about 1-2 years ago for $450 which just came back certified as PCGS MS-63 -- that was a nice commercial success!!

    Thanks again for your post!

    1907-S PCGS MS-63 $20 Liberty (PL)
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    Stuart

    Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal

    "Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
  • StuartStuart Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here's some new photos that I took of my 1927 PCGS MS-65 $20 Saint Gaudens this past weekend. I am pleased with them!

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    Stuart

    Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal

    "Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    Makes me want to go and buy one now.
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  • LouisLouis Posts: 3,687
    That's a nice Saint Stuart, I made a 65 on a 27 Saint myself. It was purchased raw on eBay and described as a MS63+, I was somewhat skeptical of buying raw gold and bid a little over spot at the time amd won it for $342. Sent it to PCGS a few months later and it came back a 65. image
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  • StuartStuart Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Louis: If you only paid $342 for your $20 Saint that certified as MS-65, then you should be about $900 to the good on that coin!! image

    Maybe you should atart making a living at picking up raw Saints!! image
    Well Done! imageimage

    Stuart

    Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal

    "Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"

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