Please post an excessively rare coin, AND which resides in your personal collection...
Longacre
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I think we have some BIG collectors among us. I think it would be neat if we could have a thread where someone can post a picture of an excessively rare coin AND which resides in their personal collection. Maybe the owner can describe the rarity figures and why it qualifies for the coveted descriptor of excessively rare. Remember, the coin has to be in your collection to qualify for this thread. Who's first?
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)
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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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)
There is reputedly one finer than yours. Supposedly there is a complete mint set of 1870-S minted coins hidden in the Old US Mint building in SF.
Problem is they are supposedly in the cornerstone of the Old Granite Lady building of the San Francisco Mint.
You think they can retrieve all of the coins without damaging the coin(s)?
This is the small 8 variety of which there are only 7 graded by PCGS in all grades. This example is the lowest one graded.
boiler78 - Why have those aluminum pieces toned? Not what I would expect.
Have fun reviewing the answers back then.
2004 year thread on rarest coins in your collection
ps. shameless self promotion - it's for sale if you want it
<< <i>1829 LM8, less than 10 known to exist
hmmm, here's your upgrade, just waiting around, biding its time, looking forward to the day it can travel to the notsogreat state of Kalifornia:
The 1757 Quaker Indian Peace medal, the cornerstone of a private diplomacy on the part of Pennsylania's Quaker population to settle a conflict with the areas Indians without going to war. It's struck atop a Pillar dollar from the second set of medal dies ever made in America. About 15 are known including those in museum collections.
Betts medals, colonial coins, US Mint medals, foreign coins found in early America, and other numismatic Americana
That set is beyond cool. I am scrambling to my thesaurus to find an appropriate adjective...however, one may not exist.
I have one piece that is excessively rare and in my collection, although it's not that expensive (sorry, but I don't have an image!). It's a "clamshell" error on an 1875-S twenty cent piece. About 40-50% of the reverse has delaminated. As far as I know, it's unique to the coin type (although the error on many other coin types is reasonably common). I have to thank Fred Weinberg for that coin...
Lane
See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
<< <i>The 1757 Quaker Indian Peace medal, the cornerstone of a private diplomacy on the part of Pennsylania's Quaker population to settle a conflict with the areas Indians without going to war. It's struck atop a Pillar dollar from the second set of medal dies ever made in America. About 15 are known including those in museum collections. >>
Very nice, John. Does the "CS" stand for conflict settled?
Lane
See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
<< <i>A little Darkside here: Generally believed by German experts to be unique in Proof. Excessively rare but not excessively valuable; few people know it exists, and fewer care
Very nice. It is aluminum or silver?
Lane
See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
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<< <i>A little Darkside here: Generally believed by German experts to be unique in Proof. Excessively rare but not excessively valuable; few people know it exists, and fewer care
Very nice. It is aluminum or silver?
Lane >>
Thanks; it's aluminum. -Preussen
1858 copper nickel trial piece. Made in early 1858 to test the dies. About 5 known. Again the regular issue was bronze.
http://www.victoriancent.com
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Boiler definitely wins my praise for the coolest item out there. Few things could beat that.
<< <i>1868 aluminum presentation set and one of 5 made. Image courtesy of mgoodm3 who went way way above and beyond the call of duty, meeting me in Portland and spending the afternoon of the Oregon-Oregon State football game imaging my coins
Beautiful!!
Seeing these makes it worth wading through all those 'What if ........' threads.
You're probably the only person willing to dig me out from under that piece. But I don't know if I can let you have it . . . I'm a little miffed at you for not letting me know that you decided to place the '68 set back in its original case.
my US collection couldn't come close to the exquisite examples shown in this thread.
I truly love that 1868 aluminum presentation set!!
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That scores a 10 out of 10 on the coolness scale!
An early US Mint medal, struck to honor Philadelphia physician David Hosack. Among his other claims to fame, Hosack was also the physician present at the Burr-Hamilton duel. Julian lists only one specimen struck in silver, but the ANS has a silver piece also.
were not minted for circulation, or were they? Perhaps you've discussed your coin in a previous thread and
would just want to post the link to it. I'd be curious to see what you know about that dollar.
thanks,
bob
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That scores a 10 out of 10 on the coolness scale! >>
and the pics are fantastic also!
myCCset
1800 LM-2/V3 F-15 R7
1800 LM-4/V4 F-15 R7+
1801 LM-1/V3 G-4 R7+
1829 LM-8/V17 EF-45 R7
1830 LM-5/V13 AU-55 R7
1832 LM-9/V14 EF-45 R7
1833 LM-5/V10 VF-20 R7+
However, what turns out to be my rarest half dime came as a complete surprise, after the sale. I wanted to own an example of the 1860 Transitional J-267 Pattern half dime, of which just 100 were minted, and perhaps half of those remain extant. I purchased a nice PCGS MS-63 example, but upon close inspection, I determined that my coin was a marriage of the J-267 reverse paired with a new, previously unknown obverse die. At present, this is a unique die marriage for a rare pattern coin. Unfortunately I am unable to post images of these coins.
How much for a copy of the CD's or DVD's with all of MG's pics ?
K
My 1866 Philly Mint Set
<< <i>1868 aluminum presentation set and one of 5 made. Image courtesy of mgoodm3 who went way way above and beyond the call of duty, meeting me in Portland and spending the afternoon of the Oregon-Oregon State football game imaging my coins
I have to ask... were those pictures taken with the coins actually in the case? Or were the images shopped in?
<< <i>I have to ask... were those pictures taken with the coins actually in the case? Or were the images shopped in? >>
What, can't you tell?
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<< <i>I have to ask... were those pictures taken with the coins actually in the case? Or were the images shopped in? >>
What, can't you tell?
Unless it is also a rare set of medal orientation (180 degree die rotation) errors......
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<< <i>I have to ask... were those pictures taken with the coins actually in the case? Or were the images shopped in? >>
What, can't you tell?
Unless it is also a rare set of medal orientation (180 degree die rotation) errors...... >>
Maybe I turned the coins in the case prior to photo'ing them.
What, can't you tell?
I can.
BTW, when I bought that set in the early 90's they were still in the original case.
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<< <i><< I have to ask... were those pictures taken with the coins actually in the case? Or were the images shopped in? >>
What, can't you tell?
I can.
BTW, when I bought that set in the early 90's they were still in the original case. >>
I get the impression that, at one time or other, MrEureka has probably owned not less than 98% of the coins shown on this board.
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<< <i><< I have to ask... were those pictures taken with the coins actually in the case? Or were the images shopped in? >>
What, can't you tell?
I can.
BTW, when I bought that set in the early 90's they were still in the original case. >>
I get the impression that, at one time or other, MrEureka has probably owned not less than 98% of the coins shown on this board. >>
Goodness, he's quite the modern collector!
Not really. I have very few coins in my collection dated after 1840.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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<< <i><< I have to ask... were those pictures taken with the coins actually in the case? Or were the images shopped in? >>
What, can't you tell?
I can.
BTW, when I bought that set in the early 90's they were still in the original case. >>
I get the impression that, at one time or other, MrEureka has probably owned not less than 98% of the coins shown on this board. >>
Goodness, he's quite the modern collector!
You should just be glad that he decided to sell all those gem Seated Dollars!