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My newest coin an PCGS 1866 MS63 Seated Dollar

partagaspartagas Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭
1866 $1

Just got it and shot it yesterday. This wasn't an easy coin to find in MS63. The price for a 64 is almost double for the 63.
If I say something in the woods, and my wife isn't around. Am I still wrong?

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  • ERER Posts: 7,345
    Looks like an excellent coin. Nice MS seated dollars are tough. Congrats.image
  • NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 10,997 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Gorgeous coin. I like the look of it.
  • MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,188 ✭✭✭✭
    Very pretty. I saw a proof seated half dollar with the same "look" and I liked that coin too. Nice addition!...Mike
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  • DUIGUYDUIGUY Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭
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  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,162 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Tough to find nice seated dollars - well done!
  • LeeGLeeG Posts: 12,162
    image"Very, Very Nice!!! and Congrat's!!!image
  • WTCGWTCG Posts: 8,940 ✭✭✭
    Nice coin. It's great to see a collector collecting a bona-fide scarce coin for a change.
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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's great to see a collector collecting a bona-fide scarce coin for a change.

    No kidding! I am sick and tired of buying widgets. image

    Oh, and very cool coin!!! image
  • fcfc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭
    i like it a lot. what did it cost?
    what is the coins pops?

    talk about a tough date for a gold coin! transition year.
    i wonder if this dollar is just as tough as say a 1866-S with
    motto half eagle?

    in mint state... wow! you must have saved your lunch money
    for a year or two.
  • A great looking dollar which represents incredible future potential image
  • Wow !!! Very sharp. Nice find.
  • partagaspartagas Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭
    Thanks for all the kind comments about my latest coin.

    The coin pops are (per heritage) 74 in MS61 or higher (PCGS and NGC). How many are resubmits who knows.

    The coin fits nicely in my set of 1866 coins. I am putting it all together, including the gold.

    It isn't a rare coin, but not easy to find in uncirculated.

    talk about a tough date for a gold coin! transition year. wonder if this dollar is just as tough as say a 1866-S with
    motto half eagle?

    FC I think you mean with out motto, mintage of 9,000 coins. Versus with motto mintage of about 35,000 coins. The 1866 with motto philly coin has a mintage of 6700. (per coinfacts.com)

    Almost all the gold from 1866 is tough to find above xf-45. It was heavily circulated, and some dates have zero uncirculated examples known.

    The Eagles will be in my opinion the hardest coins to come by. I will be happy just to have an Eagle coin.
    If I say something in the woods, and my wife isn't around. Am I still wrong?
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The coin fits nicely in my set of 1866 coins. I am putting it all together, including the gold.

    Very cool idea. I love it. image

    Good luck, Robert
  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    What's not to like about a MS seated dollar.image
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  • lavalava Posts: 3,286 ✭✭✭
    Nice coin and nice date. It's all good.
    I brake for ear bars.
  • michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭
    oh my

    my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my

    a great monster coin and you are right double in ms64 if you can find one and i hate to think waht an ms65 would cost if one actually existsimage

    a scarce always in demand coin

    you did extremely wellimage

    the eye appeal looks amazing as well finally a true collector coin posted on here that is scarce and historical and just plain sexyimage

    i am in loveimage
  • mirabelamirabela Posts: 5,046 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Excellent. Best coin I've looked at on this board in some time.
    mirabela
  • michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭
    great value for the $$$$ as a true nice eye appealling ms65 would be around 32k

    a low mintage of 48,000

    first seated dollar with in God we trust on the reverse!!

    a truly rare coin in biz strike maybe 45-60 ?????? exist in ms63 and higher grades?????


    the melt value of this coin the year it was made was 1.04 or close so many where exported for trade coins and many more melted

    a truly delicious coin a tempting treat that certianly would be the FEATURED highlight of a numismatic feast/banquetimage
  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,162 ✭✭✭✭✭
    i hate to think waht an ms65 would cost if one actually exists

    I sold my OGH MS65 for around $40k after I bought the Jimmy Hayes MS67.
  • fcfc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭
    partagas,

    i will have to check my notes.. but i will agree the 1866s without
    motto is tough, the with motto, is equally as hard.

    lets estimate that pcgs has graded 70 with motto, while the
    no motto may be around 40. i will double check.

    both are termendously tough coins in any condition.
    ussually well marked up retail wise.
  • michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭
    no motto 1866 dollarshmmmmmmmmmm

    maybe?? 2 where struck in the proof format

    and a one million dollar or so coin!!


    wow tradedollarnut i would have loved to see that ogh ms65 1866image
  • partagaspartagas Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭
    Michael,

    The no motto 1866 Seated dollar coin is my dream coin.

    I will buy the private PR63 one if I ever win the lottery. And of course I can persuade whoever owns it to sell it.
    If I say something in the woods, and my wife isn't around. Am I still wrong?
  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,162 ✭✭✭✭✭
    And of course I can persuade whoever owns it to sell it.

    Nope - that coin is away for a very long time.
  • zennyzenny Posts: 1,547 ✭✭
    nice coin and very impressive date set you've got going there!
  • NicNic Posts: 3,386 ✭✭✭✭✭
    NICE coin! Congrat.'s! I'm doing an 1866 set as well. Not an easy thing ..... K
  • fcfc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭
    PCGS No Date Den Variety Desig VG-VF 40 45 50 53 55 58 60 61 62 63 64 Total

    8311 1866 $5 Motto MS 6 5 6 4 2 6 1 0 1 0 0 0 31
    8312 1866-S $5 Motto MS 24 5 11 2 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 46
    8300 1866-S $5 NoMot MS 35 4 5 2 2 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 51

    tough coin with that motto.
    kinda suprising when you think about the mintage.
  • partagaspartagas Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭
    Yes FC I am shocked by those pop numbers. I did read on source that had suggested some of those motto $5 coins where melted.

    Perhaps that would explain it. the lower pop numbers.



    Several lower grade example have been offered at Heritage in the last year or so, and they don't really carry a premium suggesting short supply.
    If I say something in the woods, and my wife isn't around. Am I still wrong?

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