1860 $5 Clark-Gruber and Co.

granddad

Picked this one up from Amspacher in 1985 too. Not as high a grade as the others in the set, put a tough one to find.



Wish the obv. was as nice as the rev.

Louis

MrEureka

1985? Sounds like a 7-point upgrade waiting to happen...

Is it for sale?

granddad

Pulled this group out of the safety deposit box to sell, but all are raw and have to be graded first. Going to pcgs.

Thank you,
Louis

Placid

Very nice

MrEureka

Put me down at MS 62 at 3:1 odds, please.

Placid

Tough coins to grade, at least 55 and less than 65.
I wonder if pcgs has a grading set for those

granddad

Placid, I need to work on the quality of my photos. All I have is a real good scanner and I am new to using it. Hope I get better with practice. Two coins that are alot nicer than the photos are the toned 1885 Morgan (a real stunner) and the 23s S/L FH 25c (white as the driven snow with slight toning on rim area) Thanks for the opinions

Louis

RYK

Nice coin.

Doesn't help much but here is my NGC-58 1861 $10 Clark Gruber:

granddad

Thank you RYK. Nice coin. I will be happy to get an AU50 grade on mine.

Louis

RYK

Your coin looks much better than 50. These are hard to grade, but I would expect an MS grade for your coin. Good luck and keep us posted.

Robert

Placid

This is the pcgs AU55 pictured at coinfacts.

granddad

Thank you Placid. That is encouraging. Maybe I had my sites set too low on this one.

Louis

Reece

Wow RYK nice coin super origional!! Let me know when you want to sell!! He He

100proof1957

as far as i know,Amspacher has always been highly respected and im certainly not qualified to argue with him.
i suspect when the smoke clears,your investment is gonna look like a drop in the bucket !

dorkkarl

ms-63. jeeez louise, man, where you been hiding all this nice s**t ???

K S

kranky

I gotta tell you, granddad, I've really enjoyed seeing the photos of your coins.

Out of curiosity, when you were picking these up in the 80's how much were you relying on Amspacher as compared to your own involvement in what you bought? In other words, were you selecting the material, was he recommending coins to you, or somewhere in between?

If you were heavily relying on his expertise, he certainly did right by you.

granddad

Kranky, I had some input, but mostly relied on him. I thought he was doing me right. And with the money that I was spending, rightfully so.

Thanks for all of the comments.
Have a Great Day!
Louis

CarlWohlforth

With Andy and Karl saying MS I would have to guess these are normally softly struck, is that right? I am not familiar with these coins. The hair at the high points of the design look worn or softly struck to me so I would have guessed AU.

RYK

With Andy and Karl saying MS I would have to guess these are normally softly struck, is that right?

Yes

Gemini

Nice I love those private gold coins.