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I don't remember seeing a PCGS AU58 coin
that I didn't like!!
...and that includes your new Barber, Fletcher!!
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"America suffers today from too much pluribus and not enough unum.".....Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
I think that 12S has a lot more color and "life" than that pic shows.
You can see hints of it in the fields both obverse and reverse.
Nice coins
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I'm not seeing the "gobs and gobs." Not a bad coin though.
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” — Gautama Buddha
Check out the registry sets. Several individuals are putting sets together in choice AU including Mike Hayes. Most of his set is in AU 55 -58 and it is taking him an incredible amount of time and effort, not to mention money, to find the coins. Most have pops well below the lower mint state grades and have are a lot of coin for the grade and money. Often the AU 58's sell for more than MS 60 money and sometimes for nearly MS 62!
Good luck on your collection.
<< <i>Alright, I just spent the last couple of hours researching this series and have to say that I really like it. In addition, it seems like Laura was singing the praises of Barbers not too long ago ... although in higher grades. Anyway, I just picked up this 1912-D to go with the 1912-S above. If anyone has any other AU58s that they want to sell, just let me know
Well, if I get sufficiently tired of the coin market, the moon money and all the shenanigans that I bail on it, I know where to go...
Dennis
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Check out the Barber Coin Pictures thread that was going around here a few days back. It is full of good looking Barbers.
https://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/collectors-showcase/world-coins/one-coin-per-year-1600-2017/2422
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<< <i>I'd like to see some real pictures before making a final judgement of the coin... these scans make the coin look flat and lifeless... I would hope that a white looking AU58 would still have plenty of flash left to it...
If this is a scan, that's not unusual. It's also possible to have a coin with a lot of luster behind a original grey sheen that's hard to "force out" in an image but pops out in hand and in the right light. I have an 1867 Rays nickel (NGC 58) which is very much like that.
Finding AU 58 coins for my set has almost come to a standstill. As a result, when I want to upgrade an AU 55 I have been "forced" to look at MS 64 coins - which I'm doing very selectively - as I am also puting together a MS date set.
The most recent addition of a 1908-D in PCGS AU 58 was a virtual miracle; I was approached by another collector who had hoped the raw coin would have graded MS 64. As he is assembling a MS set, this coin just didn't fit into his scheme of collecting. I call this coin AU-64...its that nice - and for that matter it very well be the finest AU 58 in my set [ Thanks again, Glenn].
Best of luck finding the coins you're looking for. [ Sorry, my duplicate collection of AU halves are not available, as they were bumped out of my primary set by the MS coins and these AU 58's are still very much part of the collection as a whole. ]
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<< <i>Finding AU 58 coins for my set has almost come to a standstill. >>
No kidding. It was considerably easier to build my type set when I was getting started -- there was quite a bit more material out there.
These days, there's intense competition for what really nice stuff there is out there -- and the money is getting outrageous. Add to that the likelihood that many of the winners are crackout artists looking to score a 63 or 64 on resubmission, and it's becoming a losing battle rather quickly.