Finally Got My Mint State Large Cent!!! Pictures Inside!
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I've wanted this coin since the summer, but nice MS large cents below MS64 (or usually MS65) are very hard to come by--I wanted a glossy one with no problems, and some lustre, as well. Mark Feld searched quite a few shows (or so he says 
) before he found this one, which he purchased so I could get a better look. It's found a new home 
The coin has some red on the obverse, and is a solid RB on the reverse. I shot the obverse a few times to show all the red, since the slab's a bit hit, making my preferred angle impossible to use and get a quality picture.
NGC MS62BN
So major thanks go out to Mark for finding this one for me. Also, thanks to JadeRareCoin and BigD5 who were also on the prowl. All three are very good guys
Jeremy
) before he found this one, which he purchased so I could get a better look. It's found a new home The coin has some red on the obverse, and is a solid RB on the reverse. I shot the obverse a few times to show all the red, since the slab's a bit hit, making my preferred angle impossible to use and get a quality picture.
NGC MS62BN
So major thanks go out to Mark for finding this one for me. Also, thanks to JadeRareCoin and BigD5 who were also on the prowl. All three are very good guys
Jeremy
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Nice cent.
<< <i>Lots of red left. Gotta shine your slab more often.
Gotta get it reholdered
<< <i>I've wanted this coin since the summer, but nice MS large cents below MS64 (or usually MS65) are very hard to come by--I wanted a glossy one with no problems, and some lustre, as well. Mark Feld searched quite a few shows (or so he says
The coin has some red on the obverse, and is a solid RB on the reverse. I shot the obverse a few times to show all the red, since the slab's a bit hit, making my preferred angle impossible to use and get a quality picture.
NGC MS62BN
So major thanks go out to Mark for finding this one for me. Also, thanks to JadeRareCoin and BigD5 who were also on the prowl. All three are very good guys
Jeremy >>
Congrat. Very nice find.
if you go out and look hard enough you can find some really great coins!! but it takes much looking
michael
Nice coin! I like it. What do you want to reslab it for? Is it a new or old NGC slab?
1847 year? Anything special happen in 1847?
Tbig
Regarding the slab: Try a rubbing compound intended for car clear coat finishes. I have a 3M product that has worked wonders for minor scuffs and scratches on slabs.
<< <i>Nice coin! I like it. What do you want to reslab it for? Is it a new or old NGC slab? >>
It's a new one... reslab just to get rid of the marks... but I wouldn't do that unless I'm sending something else to NGC... in which case it's $5 to remove the scratches. That's not anywhere on my priority list.
<< <i>1847 year? Anything special happen in 1847? >>
Thomas Edison was born that year. Actually, the first large cent I ever got was an 1847--and I thought it was especially cool that Edison was born that year, since I had just studied him in school (3rd grade, I think). Anyhoo, the date really isn't significant--I just wanted the type, and this is the first one that popped up that was really worth it
Ah, but patience is virtue.
<< <i>Regarding the slab: Try a rubbing compound intended for car clear coat finishes. I have a 3M product that has worked wonders for minor scuffs and scratches on slabs. >>
Good tip, Tommy... I worked on this one... twice so far
Had I been at the show in Parsippany, I would have show you one of my copper newps!Eliasberg half cent
al h.
<< <i>so is it a 62 or a 58??
al h.
NGC MS62BN
I think keets was asking if the coin is a true 62, or if it's really a 58 with the slightest rub that received a bump from NGC. Many 58s end up in MS61-62 holders.
Jeremy
thanks for the help, my point precisely. it's really an inane arguement that's constantly beaten about, that many MS62's are actually AU58's and that AU58 can be a super hot grade to buy because trivial strike weakness is oftentimes seen as rub.
al h.
Jeremy
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Congrat's ....nice pick up indeed, and I'd say pretty much well graded - true it could have gone either way but like another mentioned I've seen way too many too much worse off, and makes your piece look great
Marc
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58/62? is a non-starter here. I remember Tom R. had an 1830 blunt strike years ago (he still might) that had perfect surfaces and swirling lustre, except it only had maybe AU50 details, but fully frosty over the "high points". Cool coin, kinda akin to an error coin, I s'pose.
It would be worth it ($15 or so) to buy some of the Novus scratch remover/polish products from eBay. There's one for heavy, moderate/minor scratches and a finishing polish. They work great.
Some other interesting things that happened in 1847:
January 1, 1847 Michigan is 1st state to abolish capital punishment
January 9, 1847 1st SF newspaper published (California Star)
January 14, 1847 Conspiracy in New Mexico against US
January 24, 1847 1,500 New Mexican Indians & Mexicans defeated by US Col Price
January 30, 1847 Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco
February 4, 1847 1st US telegraph co established in Maryland
February 22, 1847 Battle of Buena Vista: US troops beat Mexican army
February 23, 1847 Battle of Buena Vista Mexico; Zachary Taylor defeats Mexicans
February 25, 1847 State University of Iowa is approved
February 28, 1847 US defeats Mexico in battle of Sacramento
March 1, 1847 Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state)
March 3, 1847 Post Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps
March 7, 1847 US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico
March 10, 1847 1st money minted in Hawaii
March 17, 1847 "Macbeth" opera premieres in Florence
March 18, 1847 1st Dutch public telegram
March 29, 1847 12,000 US troops capture Vera Cruz, Mexico [or 0327?]
April 14, 1847 Persia & Osmaanse sign 2nd Treaty of Erzurum
April 28, 1847 George B Vashon becomes 1st black to enter NY State Bar
May 2, 1847 Sabbath famine
May 4, 1847 NY State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration
May 5, 1847 American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)
May 8, 1847 Robert Thompson patents rubber tire
May 31, 1847 Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens
June 10, 1847 Chicago Tribune begins publishing
June 14, 1847 Robert von Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner
June 22, 1847 Doughnut created
June 27, 1847 NY & Boston linked by telegraph wires
July 1, 1847 1st US postage stamps go on sale, 5› Franklin & 10› Washington, NYC
July 2, 1847 Envelope bearing 1st US 10› stamps, still exists today
July 10, 1847 Urbain J J Leverrier & John Couch Adams, codiscoverers of Neptune meet for 1st time at home of John Herschel
July 20, 1847 German astronomer Theodor discovers Comet Brorsen-Metcalf
July 24, 1847 Brigham Young & his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, UT
July 24, 1847 Rotary-type printing press patents by Richard March Hoe, NYC
July 26, 1847 Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society
July 26, 1847 Moses Garrish Farmer builds 1st miniature train for children to ride
August 24, 1847 Charlotte Bronte finishes manuscript of "Jane Eyre"
September 8, 1847 US under Gen Scott defeat Mexicans at Battle of Molino del Rey
September 10, 1847 1st theater opens in Hawaii
September 11, 1847 1st singing of Stephen Fosters "Susanna" (in Pittsburgh)
September 13, 1847 American-Mexican war: US Gen Winfield Scott captures Mexico City
September 14, 1847 US Marines under General Scott enter Mexico City (halls of Montezuma)
September 16, 1847 United Shakespeare Company buys his home in Stratford-upon-Avon
October 1, 1847 Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet
October 16, 1847 Charlotte Bronte's book "Jane Eyre" published
October 20, 1847 Little William Nelman poisons his grandpa
November 21, 1847 Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200
November 29, 1847 Indians kill Marcus & Narcissa Whitman, 11 settle in Walla Walla Ore
December 3, 1847 Frederick Douglass publishes 1st issue of his newspaper "North Star"
Ron
Jeremy,
I actually sold that coin to Mark. I found it while metal detecting a few months ago. I cleaned it with a Brillo Pad and then had a coin doctor recolor it. Next, Mark used his contacts at NGC to get it into a 62 BN holder. I sold it to him for $8, so I hope that he did not charge you much over that.
Jus' kiddin'. That is a very nice coin for the grade. Very nice score! Congratulations.
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Ron, you left out my date of birth: Sep 28, 1847. Now that's significant.....
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