World's Finest PCGS Spanish (ship wreck) COB, American Platinum Eagle, French Thaler

MrPlatinum · July 10, 2004 12:05PM

These are my 3 favorite coins.

lordmarcovan · July 10, 2004 12:16PM

MrPlatinum · July 10, 2004 12:31PM

I had the 8 as my icon for some reason it got deleted, but since I'm the King of ALL Platinum coins it's most fitting that I put up the hardest MS-70 in platinum to be made thus far as my icon.

goldrush00013 · July 10, 2004 12:41PM

all i see is a red x

cacheman · July 10, 2004 12:41PM

Being "King" must be lonely....

MrPlatinum · July 10, 2004 1:03PM

Actually it's not so bad.

My Platinum set won PCGS's best set of 2003 award beating out almost 9500 registry sets.

This year I took it slow, only won 32 awards, next year who knows maybe none....

cacheman · July 10, 2004 1:16PM

"World's Finest PCGS Spanish (ship wreck) COB, American Platinum Eagle, French Thaler"

BTW, your "French" taler is actually a Regensburg, Germany taler...but you probably know this.

MrPlatinum · July 10, 2004 1:40PM

Thanks for the info, the reverse is the Paris skyline in the 1750's

Is it German or French?

Aethelred · July 10, 2004 1:45PM

MrPlatinum · July 10, 2004 2:03PM

I have no clue, this is what was on the info that was with the coin at auction last year.

This coin was raw when I got it, the last time this coin traded hands, was about 75 years ago, the DuPonts had it at one time.

That's all the info I have on this coin.

I do know it's traded hands only 3 times in 135+ years.

I submitted it to PCGS without knowing what it was, all I know it's the most stunning piece of silver I've ever owned.

I also owned the POP1 1995W PR-70DCAM silver eagle, (sold last summer for $80,600) this coin in my opinion blows that coin away.

cacheman · July 10, 2004 2:06PM

The reverse is going to look similar to one of these out of my collection which are reverses for a Regenburg Germany cityview taler in the mid 1700's.

The enjoyment of collecting is in the learning...

Aethelred · July 10, 2004 2:07PM

MrPlatinum · July 10, 2004 2:10PM

Oh ok! yeah that's what my coin looks like on the reverse.

Why is your coin not graded?

Ok so it's a German coin, thanks for educating me on what it actually is.

I've had it for about 13 months, no one has ever bothered to let me know what it is.

cacheman · July 10, 2004 2:18PM

"Why is your coin not graded?"

Because I am from the old school where collectors don't see their collection as a commodity. On the contrary, many of us here free the world coins from their plastic tombs. Different strokes for different folks...

Aethelred · July 10, 2004 2:25PM

boz · July 10, 2004 2:39PM

Aethelred · July 10, 2004 2:41PM

cacheman · July 10, 2004 2:44PM

well hell, why not another dead king too?

MrPlatinum · July 10, 2004 2:51PM

I'm not generally into world coins.

If I see something that catches my eye, I just buy it then do the research on it.

I saw this coin on the cover of an ANA auction last year and went nuts over it.

Now matter what the price was I had to have it.

In my opinion the detail of a coin of this age is beyond words.

If your coin was an MS coin you can actually see the logs in the river that's how detailed these coins are.

MrPlatinum · July 10, 2004 3:00PM

cacheman have you ever seen one in my condition?

Also, how many of these have you seen personally I would like to buy another one to have it slabbed reverse front.

trozau · July 11, 2004 3:11AM

1jester · July 11, 2004 3:21AM

trozau · July 11, 2004 5:10AM

MrPlatinum · July 11, 2004 11:07AM

That's a cool Bob Mahhhhhley coin...

Were they spliff enhanced to hit a 70?

trozau · July 11, 2004 11:48AM

World's Finest PCGS Spanish (ship wreck) COB, American Platinum Eagle, French Thaler

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