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Southern gold GTG & congrats Longacre on this fine purchase

RYKRYK Posts: 35,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
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New Orleans quarter eagle:

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My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132

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  • goldisgoodgoldisgood Posts: 173
    Awesome photo! I like the die cracks at 9 & 3 o'clock. Is this a new variety with the date tilted and the base of the one invading the denticle area? It looks very lustrous in the photo but either wear or weak strike in spots. MS63 if no wear or superb AU58 with wear.
  • DaveGDaveG Posts: 3,535 ✭
    MY!

    That's a pretty big step up for Longacre!

    (Mrs. Longacre must be feeling pretty generous!)

    Check out the Southern Gold Society

  • MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    I also like how the date goes into the denticles!! image
    My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable !
  • ERER Posts: 7,345 ✭
    AU
  • ReeceReece Posts: 378 ✭✭✭
    Very nice coin!! congrats!!
    RWK
  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭
    image

    Coin's for sale/trade.


    Tom Pilitowski
    US Rare Coin Investments
    800-624-1870

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,272 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice coin! AU58

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  • kcnovicekcnovice Posts: 181
    Wow, beauty of a coin. Looks like DW's ms63image
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Okay, the joke is up. Longacre did not, to my knowledge, purchase this Condition Census NGC MS-63 New Orleans quarter eagle. The point in posting the coin is that it but another example where the weak strike gives the coin an AU look, but presumably the coin's strong luster and immaculate surfaces weigh heavily on the grade. To be accurate, I have not personally examined the coin.
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    I can pick myself up off of the floor now. I thought somehow I might have hit a "buy now" button somewhere and not realized it. And to DaveG's point-- Mrs. Longacre would have killed me if she found out (and if it were true image ). Good one, RYK.
    Always took candy from strangers
    Didn't wanna get me no trade
    Never want to be like papa
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  • DeusExMachinaDeusExMachina Posts: 1,325 ✭
    Great coin. Longacre, hopefully some day you can pick that one up.image

    This thread also illustrates the point, do your research before you buy. Southern gold is given a lot of leeway by the grading cos. If that was a P, AU might be a strectch.
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This thread also illustrates the point, do your research before you buy. Southern gold is given a lot of leeway by the grading cos. If that was a P, AU might be a strectch.

    More to the point, each of the southern gold issues has particular strike characteristics. If you do not know what these are, you cannot begin to attempt grading the coin.
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • DeusExMachinaDeusExMachina Posts: 1,325 ✭
    I think weak strike is a good starting point.image

    I am really starting to like branch mint and old 19th century gold . The mint looked more like the JV squad during these periods.
  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I am really starting to like branch mint and old 19th century gold . >>




    There is nothing to see here, especially New Orleans coinage.


    image
    Always took candy from strangers
    Didn't wanna get me no trade
    Never want to be like papa
    Working for the boss every night and day
    --"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
  • DeusExMachinaDeusExMachina Posts: 1,325 ✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I am really starting to like branch mint and old 19th century gold . >>




    There is nothing to see here, especially New Orleans coinage.


    image >>



    Yeah, they are ugly, terrible coins. Nothing to see, keep moving.
  • goldisgoodgoldisgood Posts: 173
    Who took the photo? Maybe he can make my coins look as pretty as this one image
  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,960 ✭✭✭
    The photo makes this look very lustrous. AU / MS63, while I would have a hard time deciding I like it eitherway.

    Definately a coin to envy. So how much does something like this run?
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Who took the photo? Maybe he can make my coins look as pretty as this one

    Mary Winter took the photo. She takes them in natural sunlight and does not photoshop the images.

    So how much does something like this run?

    It's offered for $16,500 on Doug Winter's website.
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The mintmark is so close to the eagle it looks like it's sitting on an egg image

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