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Here's my new OLD 1796 quarter (G4). Opinions Please.

goose3goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
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One set of pics shot in sunlight one under desklamp. It is a touch dark but it sure looks original and "wholesome" to my untrained eyes. The bottom set of pics is pretty close to color in hand.

The next picture is a FA02 that is/was offered to me by another dealer. The Fa2 is priced 44% less than the G4.
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Opinions please.

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  • Dennis88Dennis88 Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭
    I think you did well.
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  • coachleonardcoachleonard Posts: 995 ✭
    i want it, and i will have it!
  • DennisHDennisH Posts: 13,991 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like it!

    A 1796 quarter is way up there on my list of coins I'd like to own.
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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    Very cool coin.
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  • originalisbestoriginalisbest Posts: 5,917 ✭✭✭✭
    Top coin has the better detail but the bottom one I like the surfaces a tad better. However that may be the photos; in any case, both are winner examples of an "affordable" 1796 quarter. Very image - but what does a wannabe like me know, anyway.
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,964 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That's a nice piece for a Good-4, Goose. It's most of the devices. I would not even consider the piece FR-02. That's just too far gone for me.

    Please don't get Jealous, but here's a piece I bought back in the 1980s perhaps for not too much more than what you had to pay for your coin.



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  • shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭
    Please don't get Jealous, but here's a piece I bought back in the 1980s perhaps for not too much more than what you had to pay for your coin.

    Oy gewalt! What a nice one that is, your coin! Wasn't TomB's 1796 quarter VG? It looked better than most "Fine" specimens I've seen. Then again, it would be nice to own that one-year type in any grade. Uber-cool!
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  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very nice.

    Tough date. I think you did well.

    It will only increase in value as time goes by.
  • FoundingFatherFoundingFather Posts: 721
    I hate every 1796-quarter-owning person I've ever come across, and you will be no different, I assure you.
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  • dorkkarldorkkarl Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭
    i regret selling my 1796, though it was not that great, a few years ago. you got a nice coin - CONGRATS!

    K S
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice coin--it's one of my favorite silver key dates, and I would like to own one someday. Congratulations and enjoy!
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  • DoctorPaperDoctorPaper Posts: 616 ✭✭✭
    Nice coin. Plus it' looks like it's a Browning 1 (low 6) which is significantly rarer than the Browning 2 (high 6) which the FA2 coin looks to be. I think the one you picked was well worth the extra 44%!!
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  • goose3goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Nice coin. Plus it' looks like it's a Browning 1 (low 6) which is significantly rarer than the Browning 2 (high 6) which the FA2 coin looks to be. I think the one you picked was well worth the extra 44%!! >>




    I believe you are correct. The dealer did tell me that it was the rarer of the 2 Browning types. Whether that is true, I have no clue, but it sounds like you are aware of the differences. thanks
  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    Awesome coin goose!

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,964 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Nice coin. Plus it' looks like it's a Browning 1 (low 6) which is significantly rarer than the Browning 2 (high 6) which the FA2 coin looks to be. I think the one you picked was well worth the extra 44%!! >>




    I believe you are correct. The dealer did tell me that it was the rarer of the 2 Browning types. Whether that is true, I have no clue, but it sounds like you are aware of the differences. thanks >>



    Yes, my coin is a Browning 2. It's pretty easy to tell the two apart if you compare them together.
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  • ColorfulcoinsColorfulcoins Posts: 3,364 ✭✭✭
    Nice coin. I've had the privledge of owningbothan AG3 and a FR2 - both of which exhibited the typically more detailed obv and weak reverse. Here's the FR2 I currently have. It actually has nice obv details for the grade.

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  • goose3goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
    Craig

    I REALLY like your quarter! Very nice!!
  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,954 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That G-4 is nice!

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  • stmanstman Posts: 11,352 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great key classic piece Goose. Congratulations, and TTT for a "REAL" coin.
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  • Coin FinderCoin Finder Posts: 7,163 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice Coin Goose! With a small mintage of 6100 or so coins and the rarer variesty of those, you cant lose. You need this coin to complete the set!!

    Good Score!

    Bust is hot and getting hotter!

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  • jdimmickjdimmick Posts: 9,674 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice specimen, glad to see you got it. I have never owned one "yet"


    jim
  • TootawlTootawl Posts: 5,877 ✭✭✭
    Very cool Goose. image
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  • BigD5BigD5 Posts: 3,433 ✭
    Great looking coin Goose!
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  • clw54clw54 Posts: 3,815 ✭✭✭
    Cool. image
  • mrpaseomrpaseo Posts: 4,753 ✭✭✭
    Wow, very nice find goose, who holdered it? I'm not sure I would go for the FA 02 either. Sure collectors will know what it is but for my own taste, I would not be attracted to the FA-02.

    Nice G4 though image
    Ray
  • goose3goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
    both of those coins are PCGS holdered.

    Bill's coin is too. (VF25!!!)

  • PreTurbPreTurb Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭
    Nice!!
  • shylockshylock Posts: 4,288 ✭✭✭
    Congrats John image
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