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Stewart's new pride and joy

shylockshylock Posts: 4,288 ✭✭✭
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The CoinWorld text, and I see PCGS has a new article about it.

1958 DDO PCGS 65RD:

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Paul <> altered surfaces <> CoinGallery.org

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  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,162 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Where's the doubling?

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  • itsnotjustmeitsnotjustme Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭
    Where are the others? Don't tell me of how ever many were struck only 2 survive?
    Give Blood (Red Bags) & Platelets (Yellow Bags)!
  • ellewoodellewood Posts: 1,750 ✭
    Congrats Stewart. It's amazing that the date did not double too. Great photos.
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  • TahoeDaleTahoeDale Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭
    I wish I had a coin that Stew could not live without,

    For I would really retire, no doubt.

    And play and gamble with the best,

    And leave collecting to the rest.

    But it's not to happen in our time,

    As I only have one slim dime.

    TahoeDale
  • MS68MS68 Posts: 353
    Now that is a ddoouubbllee ddiiee!!
    David Schweitz
  • RBinTexRBinTex Posts: 4,328 ✭
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  • jacktheknifejacktheknife Posts: 1,547 ✭



    Stewart,

    You su<k! I hate you because you always get all the cool coins. So, are we going to get together at FUN for dinner and drinks? Lloyd's buying.image

    Jack
  • sonofagunksonofagunk Posts: 1,349 ✭✭
    Looks overgraded (just jealousy speaking). Congrats, much feel great to find a coin that you have been searching for over 20 years. The E and B in liberty makes it look like a triple or quad die coin.
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  • KeyrockKeyrock Posts: 961 ✭
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    Very cool and only 20 years to find it......
  • RADRAD Posts: 287
    Is that really an MS65????!!?? Congrats!!!
    (I need to go check those coffee cans............lolol)
    RAD
  • shylockshylock Posts: 4,288 ✭✭✭
    I should have taken a closeup of the date because it is slightly doubled, the more so the further east you get as you'd expect on this form of doubling. The best blown up pic of the date I could muster from the standard size images:

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    The 8 displays obvious doubling in all areas, the 5 shows it slightly north & west, and the 9 & 1 show it very slightly to the north.
    Paul <> altered surfaces <> CoinGallery.org
  • iras4iras4 Posts: 300
    Stewart was kind to show me his new "baby" at the Long Beach show and I found it quite breathtaking. As Shylock has shown in the closeup photos, doubling does show on the date, but the doubling on the letters is really quite dramatic! I sure hope HRH doesn't decide to make this coin a necessity for the Lincolns w/Varieties Registries! Kidding...he'd never do that, would he? My customers would kill me!

    Ira
    Dealer/old-time collector
  • Dan50Dan50 Posts: 1,816 ✭✭✭
    Looking at the W and E make me dizzzzzzzzzzzy. image
    Dan
  • dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Amazing doubling! Wonderful, Stewart!

    Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...



  • LincolnsRuleLincolnsRule Posts: 1,738 ✭
    Congrats Stewart!
    Phew! I'm glad to know the doubling is very obvious and that I didn't throw some of these aside while looking for high grades in 58-p BU rolls.
  • orevilleoreville Posts: 12,024 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Now THAT is a coin to crow about!

    I would crow about it myself!

    I love it!!!

    I may just have to break open my obw rolls of 1958 cents!!!!

    Nah, I just can't do it!!! I like the wrapping too much!
    A Collectors Universe poster since 1997!
  • JusthavingfunJusthavingfun Posts: 835 ✭
    Glorious coin, Stewart. Congratulations.

    Just Having Fun
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  • CocoinutCocoinut Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great coin! Congrats to Stewart.

    Now I'm going to have to re-check that bag of wheaties I bought 25 years ago. I can dream, can't I? Wonder what an EF-AU would be worth?

    Jim
    Countdown to completion of my Mercury Set: 1 coin. My growing Lincoln Set: Finally completed!
  • DMWJRDMWJR Posts: 6,008 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image

    Time to break out the orange undies!!
    Doug
  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,439 ✭✭✭✭✭
    FnA sweeettttt!!!!

    That is superimage !!!!!!!!

    I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,162 ✭✭✭✭✭
    PCGS article
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  • rabbitracksrabbitracks Posts: 538 ✭✭
    imageGreat Score on the Rarest of Lincoln Cents Stewart. Also Great Score on the MS-65 Grade the graders gave your coin.image Hope you can now find that other true rarity a Mint State 43 Copper Cent. There has to be one out there somewhere waiting to be scooped up!imageimage
    Enjoying time at home with the family now is my full time passion.

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  • STEWARTBLAYNUMISSTEWARTBLAYNUMIS Posts: 2,697 ✭✭✭✭

    Thanks to all who commented and wished me well with my most recent acquisition.It was quite a feat to acquire this coin.I swear the owner shed a tear when he "let it go".He had it for more than 40 years.I don't think there was anyone who thought I could acquire this coin.Persistence,determination and a passion succeeded for me.
    I also wish to thank Shylock (Paul Houck) whom I believe is the "BEST" photographer to image Red Copper.
    I also wish to thank Beth Deisher whom I met at breakfast in Long Beach.When I showed her the coin she persisted in getting the coin on the front page of Coin World.
    I also wish to thank Ron Guth for his article on the home page of the PCGS web site.
    I also wish luck and good fortune to all Lincoln cent collectors and dealers in finding additional examples of this elusive double die.

    Stewart
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,408 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congrats, Stew - great coin. I for one enjoy the passion you bring to collecting.
    "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.
  • clackamasclackamas Posts: 5,615 ✭
    Stewart, that is sweet. You must be thrilled, especially that you beat Gerry to the punch.
  • AtlanticAtlantic Posts: 573 ✭
    Super,,,,,,,,,
    Collector Of Indian Cents!
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  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,166 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I never even knew that coin existed with such strong doubling.
    Nice!
  • EagleEyeEagleEye Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great Coin Stew! Thanks for showing me the coin at Long Beach! The MS64RD was my nemesis as I (together with BWRC) was the underbidder at $25,000. (It sold for $25,025). It was already in a PCGS 64RD holder at that time. This coin is truly the king of 20th century varieties in terms of rarity and just plain WOW! I AM ENVIOUS!

    BTW, Excellent photography Shylock!
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  • shylockshylock Posts: 4,288 ✭✭✭
    Thanks Rick, that means a lot to me coming from you.

    To me the most interesting thing about this variety is most of us, myself included, didn't even know it existed until recent posts on the forum. When I heard about it I assumed it was one of those varieties you need a microscope, or at least a glass, to appreciate. It blew my mind that the legend was more doubled than any Lincoln DDO other than the 1955/1955.
    Paul <> altered surfaces <> CoinGallery.org
  • STEWARTBLAYNUMISSTEWARTBLAYNUMIS Posts: 2,697 ✭✭✭✭
    ttt
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    Does anybody have an image of the other example? It'd be nice to be able to compare them.

    Russ, NCNE
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  • dbldie55dbldie55 Posts: 7,735 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Does anybody have an image of the other example? It'd be nice to be able to compare them.

    Russ, NCNE >>



    They are both shown in one of the threads on the topic.
    Collector and Researcher of Liberty Head Nickels. ANA LM-6053
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i><< Does anybody have an image of the other example? It'd be nice to be able to compare them.

    Russ, NCNE >>

    They are both shown in one of the threads on the topic. >>



    Not anymore. image

    Russ, NCNE
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  • sonofagunksonofagunk Posts: 1,349 ✭✭
    So did PCGS throw in a free photo from their new-ish photo service when you got it slabbed?
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  • SethChandlerSethChandler Posts: 1,710 ✭✭✭✭
    Congratulations on the finally getting the coin after 20 years of searching.
    Collecting since 1976.
  • onlyroosiesonlyroosies Posts: 3,300 ✭✭✭✭
    Stewart congrats on a great coin.


    In the early to mid 90's I collected Lincoln varieties. I was also a bidder on the 64RD coin. If I remember right it was a sealed
    bid process conducted by Sam Lukes. My bid was $23K. I was so confident that I would win the coin at that price I sent a cashiers
    check with my bid. Much to my surprise my check was returned and I was told I did not win the coin. If I had known then that only
    a few thousand more would have won the coin I would have gladly paid it. At that time I had the 17DD, all 3 36DD, 69S DD, all the
    well known DD's and most of the proof DD from the cherry pickers guide. I sold it all in 98......image

    Stewart I have always admired you for being such a passionate collector. If I had that much passion I would still have my Roosie set,
    and my Lincolns, and my indian cents, and my silver 1943 cent, and my 1959 brass lincoln cent...and so on and so on.
  • Dan50Dan50 Posts: 1,816 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Stewart I have always admired you for being such a passionate collector. If I had that much passion I would still have my Roosie set, >>



    Nick coin collectors are a lot like fishermen. You have the ones who catch the big fish, looks at it and says "boy thats going to look great mounted and hanging on my wall. Then theres the guy who reels in a big boy, looks at it and thinks, "Man thats a real keeper". Then he turns and lets it loose in the water, knowing someone else will get the same thrill when they have it in their hands. Nick you are the catcher, releaser type. And no one will ever make me believe you have less passion than any, "ANY" other collector.
    Dan
  • docday2003docday2003 Posts: 1,100


    << <i>

    << <i>Stewart I have always admired you for being such a passionate collector. If I had that much passion I would still have my Roosie set, >>



    Nick coin collectors are a lot like fishermen. You have the ones who catch the big fish, looks at it and says "boy thats going to look great mounted and hanging on my wall. Then theres the guy who reels in a big boy, looks at it and thinks, "Man thats a real keeper". Then he turns and lets it loose in the water, knowing someone else will get the same thrill when they have it in their hands. Nick you are the catcher, releaser type. And no one will ever make me believe you have less passion than any, "ANY" other collector. >>



    I don't catch and release. I catch and keep, and then look for doubles!
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