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Pan-Pac Octagonal

Is there anyone out there who doesn't love this Coin.

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  • CarlWohlforthCarlWohlforth Posts: 11,074 ✭
    Not me, I love that coin!
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  • MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,188 ✭✭✭✭
    I don't love this coin.

    Then again commemoratives in general don't do it for me.

    It is very pretty, and a wonderful example of the issue, but it doesn't speak to me like a nicely original toned classic proof or a early large cent or even a nice Ike.

    Call me shallow. image

    Take care...Mike
    Collector of Large Cents, US Type, and modern pocket change.
  • flaminioflaminio Posts: 5,664 ✭✭✭
    Truth be told, I prefer the round one. But I sure wouldn't kick this one out of bed...
  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,580 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I can just see the conversation in 1915...

    Fred: "Hey Barney, lookit this!" (shows Barney this $50 Pan Pac)
    Barney: "Good heavens, man! Where did you get that hunk of metal?"
    Fred: "From the fair in San Francisco just to-day!"
    Barney: "Modern junk! Overpriced bullion as well! A $50 face value coin for $100? Wow, they just lined rubes like you up!"
    Fred: ...
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  • mhammermanmhammerman Posts: 3,769 ✭✭✭
    "Not me, I love that coin!"

    Not me either, I love that coin the most!
  • HobbyistHobbyist Posts: 215
    Gold, Commemorative and Funny Shaped. Three strikes and you are out.
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  • mdwoodsmdwoods Posts: 5,547 ✭✭✭
    What a gorgeous coin. It's hard to imagine why it isn't graded higher.
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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,408 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Beautiful coin - would love to own it!
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  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,580 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Gold, Commemorative and Funny Shaped. Three strikes and you are out. >>



    You prefer round, clad, dead presidents!? image
    "I'll split the atom! I am the fifth dimension! I am the eighth wonder of the world!" -Gef the talking mongoose.
  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,580 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I honestly can't say which I prefer, the obverse or the reverse.. the helmeted Minerva is stunning, but the and pine cones on the reverse almost look like something out of a medal, with that relief.
    "I'll split the atom! I am the fifth dimension! I am the eighth wonder of the world!" -Gef the talking mongoose.
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭


    << <i>What a gorgeous coin. It's hard to imagine why it isn't graded higher. >>



    Exactly. What's keeping it out of a 9 holder? Probably the wannabe slab company? Will PCGS step up to the plate and grade it properly?

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  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Gold, Commemorative and Funny Shaped. Three strikes and you are out. >>


    Ahh...so lonnnnnnng runs of ho-hum designs that never change, boring Barbers, lackluster Lincolns, same old cookie-cutter coins are what you prefer? Morgans by the millions, ugly Jeffersons. Designs that sucked from the beginning needed to be changed fifty years ago?
  • BASEagleBASEagle Posts: 383
    Are those hairlines around the bird's head?


  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭
    I really like the type, but that one looks overgraded. The surfaces on the obverse look rough, and on the reverse there are lines around the owls head.
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  • pontiacinfpontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭


    << <i>Are those hairlines around the bird's head? >>



    yeah, looks cleaned, but what do I knowimage
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  • samingeorgiasamingeorgia Posts: 122
    When I hit the lottery, I'm buying a set of those - round and octagonal.

    Hey, ya gotta be an optimist, right?
    How 'bout them DAWGs!
  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,162 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I really like the type, but that one looks overgraded. The surfaces on the obverse look rough, and on the reverse there are lines around the owls head.

    Those are undoubtably die polish lines.
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  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭


    << <i>The surfaces on the obverse look rough, and on the reverse there are lines around the owls head. >>


    Yep the surfaces are rough. It was designed that way. It seemed to be something of a fashion in coin design at the time. Look at the buffalo nickel, especialy the 1913 Type I's. The fields were deliberately left with a rough texture. There are other commems that show the same type surfaces.
  • poorguypoorguy Posts: 4,317 ✭
    Are those hairlines around the bird's head?

    No, those are die polishing lines.

    I would rather own the PCGS MS66 than this one. There is a small mark on the rim near the C in PACIFIC on the reverse. Still a knockout coin though. image
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  • boyhowdyboyhowdy Posts: 657 ✭
    WOW!

    I called my girlfriend in and told her I found a coin she could get me for my birthday.
    She came running in with a pad and pencil to jot down the particulars. She oohed and
    ahh'd at the obverse pic and then I scrolled down to the pic of the reverse. Where the price was listed.
    Oh hell, that couch is pretty comfortable.

    Steve
    Collecting XF+ toned Barber dimes
  • FullStrikeFullStrike Posts: 4,353 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Ahh...so lonnnnnnng runs of ho-hum designs that never change, boring Barbers, lackluster Lincolns, same old cookie-cutter coins are what you prefer? Morgans by the millions, ugly Jeffersons. Designs that sucked from the beginning needed to be changed fifty years ago? >>




    Yeah Outhaul you're thinking along the right lines, the Pan-Pac is so cool because it's gold, BIG, very limited, and so unlike most everything out there.



    << <i>When I hit the lottery, I'm buying a set of those - round and octagonal. >>



    Count me as being in line for one as soon as I hit the BIG ONE also , Sam. Until then, if someone would create a golf foiled chocolate Coin version, I might be tempted to eat myself into a sugar-stupor with a few of those monsters.

    Maybe if that big Gold slug doesn't sell right away, Laura will set the Numismatic World afire and stage a nifty giveaway right here on the CU forums. Listen to me - just thinking about eating chocolate replicas has set me into a wild sugar-coma dream-a-thon.
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  • morgannut2morgannut2 Posts: 4,293 ✭
    I like the ex:Akers finest "on the planet" Indian that Legend has much better. Online it even looks undergraded, if that's possible!! image
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  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭
    There will be two of these with the original boxes coming up in the next ANR saleimage

    Coin's for sale/trade.


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  • JDelageJDelage Posts: 724 ✭✭
    Amazing coins...
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    Robert A. Heinlein

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