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What's better than finding a proof set with a cameo coin?

RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
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Finding a set with TWO cameo coins!

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Picked off at a local shop today for $11. I love cameos!

Russ, NCNE
eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC

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  • anablepanablep Posts: 5,160 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Always looking for attractive rim toned Morgan and Peace dollars in PCGS or (older) ANA/ANACS holders!

    "Bongo hurtles along the rain soaked highway of life on underinflated bald retread tires."


    ~Wayne
  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Russ...you are a cameo magnet!! Whats the most cameos you've found in one pre-1968 proof set.
  • Betta285Betta285 Posts: 733
    Very Sweet! Anything holding either back from DCAM? Roosie looks a little light, but the washington seems to be all there...could just be the pictures...

    jim
  • ultradmpldollarsultradmpldollars Posts: 899 ✭
    I swung by our local antique shop today, and found nothing but cleaned and damaged junk. image
  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Roosie looks DCAM....The Washington looks Cam due to the left wing tip. imo
  • XpipedreamRXpipedreamR Posts: 8,059 ✭✭
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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    The Roosie is a DCAM, but only grades PR67 due to some light spotting. The Washington has marvelous surfaces grading PR68, but is only cameo.



    << <i>Whats the most cameos you've found in one pre-1968 proof set. >>



    Three in a 1964 set; Half, Dime, Cent.

    Russ, NCNE

    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
  • 100proof1957100proof1957 Posts: 6,231 ✭
    Tulips on your Organ ?
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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Tulips on your Organ ? >>



    Thanks for the offer, but you're not my type. Try the open forum; there are a few hanging out there that might be interested.

    Russ, NCNE
    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
  • 100proof1957100proof1957 Posts: 6,231 ✭
    You asked whats better !

    Go to the flower shop,get a 1/2 dozen,place them on the organ in a vase,when mom gets home she thinks you have some class !

    If you have a piano use roses instead !
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  • MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    Tulips on your Organ ?

    Thanks for the offer, but you're not my type.

    You can't be bringing that kind of stuff around Russ! image
    My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable !
  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,571 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Some months ago I posted a thread about finding more than one cameo in a single proof set. Interesting replies were posted, including a reply by another cameo fan (RGL or Dheath I seem to recall) that included a picture of five cameo coins he found in an original SMS set. Unreal IMHO.

    BTW, my best score was a 1962 Proof set that had 4 out of the five coins being cameo (I do not remember which coin it was, but it was one of the minors). My jaw dropped on that one. Picked up the set for between $10-$20. My only regret is that I cut out the cameo coins. I should have kept the set intact.
  • razorface1027razorface1027 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭
    Man, they're beautiful!image



    Tom
    What is money, in reality, but dirty pieces of paper and metal upon which privilege is stamped?
  • tmot99tmot99 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭
    The quarter almost looks fake. that lampshade really makes them look great!
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>The quarter almost looks fake. that lampshade really makes them look great! >>



    Doesn't look as good as this one:

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    That one blows away the one I picked up today. It has the strongest black and white contrast on the obverse that I've ever seen on a Washington, including the ultra modern silver proofs. Sadly, though, it isn't mine.

    Russ, NCNE
    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
  • tmot99tmot99 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭
    Is the second one Marty's? image
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Is the second one Marty's? >>



    Nope, it's one that got away from that vulture. Belongs to another forum member.

    Russ, NCNE
    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
  • majorbigtimemajorbigtime Posts: 2,937 ✭
    What's better than finding a proof set with a cameo coin?


    AN ORGAISM???
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What's better than finding a proof set with a cameo coin?

    Lots of things of things come to mind:

    CladKing finding an 82-D Wash quarter in MS-68
    Russ finding a 64 AH Kennedy in Proof-69 DCAM
    Keets finding a 40 Jeff in MS-68FS
    RYK never ever having to look at a Morgan again
    FatMan finding a 55-D G$1 in AU-58 in a time capsule someone else placed in his house
    Cleon coming back to sell a coin
    Midwesterncoin13 not coming back
    Majorbigtime explaining what an "orgaism" is
    Steelers winning One for the Thumb
    etc.

    Lots and lots and lots of things...
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • DD Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭
    Daniel finding a MS67FB 1916-D Merc in pocket change.

    -Daniel
    "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

    -Aristotle

    Dum loquimur fugerit invida aetas. Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero.

    -Horace
  • NickelbackNickelback Posts: 381
    Um...stopping to help a stranded motorist who turns out to be a super model. Fix her car, go for "brunch" and then receiving five consecutively serial numbered starred two digit 1934 $100 bills as a tip in perfect condition. Oh, and her phone number...

    and as to other possibilities...not here!!!

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