If this were a U.S. Colonial piece instead of British...
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What would it cost?
Same era, but opposite sides of the pond.
Same era, but opposite sides of the pond.
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TorinoCobra71
Although that is darkside, I should really start taking a closer look at colonials.
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)
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TorinoCobra71 >>
Yeah it is... but the nice thing is that you don't have to mortgage your house to buy nice quality examples.
As much as I like U.S. coinage, my collecting dollar just goes so much farther on the DarkSide. When I compare prices of UK halfpennies and pennies of the early-mid 1800s with U.S. half cents and large cents, you can buy certified MS63-65 examples of the British material for $75-250, whereas you're not likely to touch U.S. material for under $300, closer to $400+.
Early cameo proofs is another area where comparisons are off the chart. I wish I could afford late-19th-century and early 20th-century U.S. cameo proofs, but I go into sticker shock every time I see one. So instead I enjoy collecting Germany and German States proofs from 1880-1930. Certified examples in PF63-66 are readily available for less than $250. Forget about U.S. cameos from that era for anywhere near that, regardless of denomination.
I realize that demand comes into play (there are far more collectors of U.S. material than any one single area of Darkside material) and mintages of some of the U.S. large cents and half cents are incredibly low, it's just nice that museum-grade specimens of various types are obtainable by the everyman collector. At one time I was concerned about liquidity, since there's so much more movement of U.S. material, but on certified material, that doesn't appear to be nearly as much of a problem as it once was. In fact, movement of certified high grade DarkSide is quite strong.
By way of comparison, and the reason for my initial question, I paid what I would consider a premium price for this piece (based on Krause), but was still only $425... not exactly beyond most collectors' reach.
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<< <i>man i wish people would stop posting sweet darkside coins here. i am almost converted just another thing to drag me away from my series (i dont mind being dragged away to much.) did i mention that coin is sweet. >>
Mcheath-
You know you want to.
I bought this Irish gilt proof penny from a bigshot here and sold it to someone else here on the forums, and miss it dearly.
200 years old, cameo proof (NGC PR64 CAM), big- almost silver dollar sized, looks like gold... less than a thousand bucks. Lots of bang for the buck. Such is the beauty of the Darkside.