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First certified coin purchase returns home

shylockshylock Posts: 4,288 ✭✭✭
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This may be the giveaway to top all giveaways. Lakesammman/Tim Larson recently sold off one of the finest FE/IH collections ever assembled, but set aside one coin he knew had sentimental value for me. It was the first certified IH I ever purchased, an 1898 NGC MS67RD, and it returned home today even nicer than I remembered it.

It's ruby red toned with jewel-like luster that's impossible to capture through NGC plastic. It's also a Snow-25 MPD (top of 9 in denticles) which places it among the highest graded varieties of all-time. As clear as that MPD is, the embarrassing part is I never noticed it when I owned it! Needless to say I've become much more variety conscious since then. A lesson learned, a coin returned. Thanks Tim!

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Paul <> altered surfaces <> CoinGallery.org

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  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    Sweet coin!

    Cameron Kiefer
  • Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,529 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Oh my God. That is one wonderful Indian. Makes me want to cry. Keep it safe!

    Thanks for sharing -

    Dave
    Always looking for original, better date VF20-VF35 Barber quarters and halves, and a quality beer.
  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    Wow. very pretty.
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  • StuartStuart Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Shylock: That's a beautiful and original Indian Cent!! Congratulations on getting it back 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"
  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Beautiful Indian, very clean with a rich color.image
  • Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,529 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How about a reverse pic?

    Dave
    Always looking for original, better date VF20-VF35 Barber quarters and halves, and a quality beer.
  • solidsolid Posts: 2,975
    Great coin & story with a happy ending! image

    Ken
  • krankykranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭
    I have to chuckle at this, since I'm convinced shylock remembers every single IHC he's ever owned, seen, read about, or just heard about! image

    It's a great story, and a spectacular coin! Nice gesture on Lakesammman's part and thanks for sharing the pic and the story.

    New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.

  • tjkilliantjkillian Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭
    Wonderful coin, congratulations on its return to you. I know how you feel, ColorfulCoins returned a 1795 plain edge large cent to me recently that my wife found in a junk box in Pennsylvania, which was my first coin I had graded. It was a P0-O1 that I had sold to Braddick.

    Tom
    Tom

  • nankrautnankraut Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭
    AHHHHH! Beautiful coin--and a nice thread too.image
    I'm the Proud recipient of a genuine "you suck" award dated 1/24/05. I was accepted into the "Circle of Trust" on 3/9/09.
  • coinlieutenantcoinlieutenant Posts: 9,310 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Paul,
    Wow... that is an awesome gift...very cool. I knew Tim was a good guy but I never thought that good!! image

    John

    siliconvalleycoins.com

  • DocMortarDocMortar Posts: 218
    Beautiful coin! Wouldn't it be great if all slabs had a computer chip so you could keep up with a coins history. (Prices, dates, ownership etc.) You could tell future generations the story that was related in this thread. Just a thought.
  • littlejohnlittlejohn Posts: 702
    i wound not let that one get away again. sweet!!


    littlejohn




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  • mtnmanmtnman Posts: 571 ✭✭✭
    That is a beautiful IC. Very good thread.
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,530 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>This may be the giveaway to top all giveaways >>



    Dang... you had my pulse rate up for a minute! image

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  • GooberGoober Posts: 980 ✭✭✭
    Wow, that is nice...thanks for sharing.
    Prost!

    Why step over the dollar to get to the cent? Because it's a 55DDO.
  • NicNic Posts: 3,365 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congrat.'s ... you deserve it. And congrat.'s to Tim as well for being the class act he is. Now ... about that 1859 Tim should sell me for 5K ....K

    My 1866 Philly Mint Set

  • maddogalemaddogale Posts: 859 ✭✭
    What a beauty!!! image

    But just to be the devil's advocate, why did you let that baby go in the first place??? image
    "I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid a hand on; I don't do these things to other people, I require the same from them."
  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    That sure is a beautiful coin!
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  • FatManFatMan Posts: 8,977 ✭
    Wow....very nice!image
  • ERER Posts: 7,345 ✭
    Now that 's RED!image
  • michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭
    superlative


    michael
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,380 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Have been out of town and off the computer - glad to return it to you, Shylock. It's a very small token of appreciation for what your friendship has meant to me over the past few years! It's one of my all time favorites and a neat MPD to boot. imageimage
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.

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