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tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,162 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Yeah, it's got a fingerprint. So what! image

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Early Dollar Set

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  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,718 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow, that;s purdy.
  • boiler78boiler78 Posts: 3,061 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Changed my mind image

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  • ARCOARCO Posts: 4,399 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Probably the nicest original XF coin I have ever seen and it was the KEY of the Barber series, the 1904-S. I sold it raw for $950.00 four years ago.


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    I still get sick thinking about how irreplaceable the coin really was.

    Tyler
  • LeeBoneLeeBone Posts: 4,483 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    This one was very close to a 65 IMO...
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,301 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm going to cheat and post more than one.

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    Andy Lustig

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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    I don't really wish that I owned it again, but it would be my favorite sold coin.

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  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭
    I wish I still had this so I could trade it for a nicer one. Old pic before I got the hang of the camera. image

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  • NicNic Posts: 3,386 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    One I took pics of. I know what I was thinking when I consigned it. Still trying to figure out why I was thinking that image. Went to a good home.

    K

    My 1866 Philly Mint Set

  • bidaskbidask Posts: 14,017 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A few days after I sold this coin back to the dealer I bought it from I said myself what good is the money....cannot replace that coin.

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    I manage money. I earn money. I save money .
    I give away money. I collect money.
    I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.




  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    yeah it's got a fingerprint, so what

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    it was in a fatty 63. but the plastic case had 2 and a half stickers so I got all the money. still miss it.

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭
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  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,301 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A few days after I sold this coin back to the dealer I bought it from I said myself what good is the money....cannot replace that coin.

    Spoken like a man unintentionally calling the top of the market...
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • SunnywoodSunnywood Posts: 2,683 ✭
    I wouldn't even know where to begin ... I didn't have any images of most of my good stuff ... here are a few that I happened to have downloaded images for ...

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  • CoinKing1969CoinKing1969 Posts: 350
    This is a set instead of a single coin. I sold this in May of 2003 and before I started Registering coins. This would have been #1.image1875 Proof Set If you noticed their are several Cameos.
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,408 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • LeeGLeeG Posts: 12,162 ✭


    << <i>I'm going to cheat and post more than one. >>

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  • BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭
    Sunnywood - are those colors for real, or is that a juiced Superior or Goldberg image?

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  • coinlieutenantcoinlieutenant Posts: 9,315 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Will have to post later apparently!! image

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  • SpaceMonkeySpaceMonkey Posts: 3,311 ✭


    << <i>Sunnywood - are those colors for real, or is that a juiced Superior or Goldberg image?

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    yes, please please explain this one!

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  • notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭
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    Of course I never owned this coin but that doesn't mean I don't wish I still owned it. --Jerry
  • LeonidasLeonidas Posts: 653


    << <i>A few days after I sold this coin back to the dealer I bought it from I said myself what good is the money....cannot replace that coin.

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    Very Very Nice !
  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,114 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • savoyspecialsavoyspecial Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭✭
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    i'm comforted by the fact that a forum member purchased it so i know it went to a good home

    greg

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  • bidaskbidask Posts: 14,017 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i> A few days after I sold this coin back to the dealer I bought it from I said myself what good is the money....cannot replace that coin.

    Spoken like a man unintentionally calling the top of the market... >>

    I have never truly acted on calling the top of the market in coins.....I just buy that market......now stocks, which essentially are widgets, is another story.
    I manage money. I earn money. I save money .
    I give away money. I collect money.
    I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.




  • SunnywoodSunnywood Posts: 2,683 ✭
    OK, for those who asked about this image of my 1796 quarter:

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    This was a Stack's image, from a time when they were relatively new to imaging their auction lots for display on the internet. The colors are cartoonish and juiced, although ordinary desaturation in Photoshop does NOT restore the image to anything that looks more like the coin. Having said that, I should note that the coin did actually have such iridescent colors underneath a deep patina, but they were subdued and visible only at the proper angle. Unfortunately I do not have a proper image of this coin.

    I purchased the coin raw out of the Marvin Taichert Type Collection on May 9, 2001. There weren't a lot of bidders because people were understandably concerned about the origin of the toning. I felt it would slab, however, so I bought it. (Again, keep in mind that the colors didn't really look as cartoonish as that image suggests.) PCGS slabbed it the first time through as AU58. The coin was later sold to Legend and became part of the "Naples II Collection of Early Type," which was later purchase by Premium Numismatics and dispersed by them.

    By the way, TDN, if you happen to see this post, I must comment that even the fingerprint is pretty on that 1799 dollar !!

    Best,
    Sunnywood
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    Sunnywood's Rainbow-Toned Morgans (Retired)

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  • DUIGUYDUIGUY Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭
    Taint no where as purty, but I miss'er,

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  • IRCWCoinsIRCWCoins Posts: 895 ✭✭
    Here is one I regret selling.

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  • coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,474 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,975 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Q: Are You Printing Money? Bernanke: Not Literally

    I knew it would happen.
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    Holy mama, thats sweet! image
  • cmerlo1cmerlo1 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭✭✭
    One of my best cherrypicks...


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  • NysotoNysoto Posts: 3,818 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I just have a couple of draped bust dimes left, but this is the one I wished I kept for type, 1798/7. Very hard to find in midgrade without significant problems, at least I used it to upgrade my 1801 half dollar. Other than this coin I have no regrets:
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  • direwolf1972direwolf1972 Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭
    wow mgoodm3 what was the grade on the 1890 morgan?
    I'll see your bunny with a pancake on his head and raise you a Siamese cat with a miniature pumpkin on his head.

    You wouldn't believe how long it took to get him to sit still for this.


  • GrivGriv Posts: 2,804 ✭
    Sorry, I have never sold a coin that I wished I'd kept. Never, not once. I don't recommend it either. image
  • notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Sorry, I have never sold a coin that I wished I'd kept. Never, not once. I don't recommend it either.

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    Me neither. that's why I had to post a coin I never owned. image
  • SunnywoodSunnywood Posts: 2,683 ✭
    Yeah, well, unfortunately there was a point when buying (and gut-renovating) a house for myself and adding on to my sister's house took precedence over the coins amidst an unfortunate confluence of financial demands. So, with much regret, the coins went ... but the good news is, both my sister and I love our houses !!

    You can sleep with your coins, but you can't sleep in them !!! image

    Best,
    Sunnywood
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    Sunnywood's Barber Quarters (Retired)
  • notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭
    Sunnywood,
    My personal collection never approached the value of yours. I have one coin that might just barely crack 5 digits. So going thru my ugly divorce I just couldn't see selling it to pay my attorney fees which were sometimes that much per month. So the coins were never in danger. I tend to accumulate things too much so when I finally get around to selling something there is likely no chance of regrets. I did sell a coin with an interesting provenance (Sheldon swapout accusation) but I'd concluded long before that i didn't care for the coin. --Jerry
  • SunnywoodSunnywood Posts: 2,683 ✭
    Jerry, I can assure you (and myself) that it will never happen again !! I no longer buy any coins that I can't afford to hold forever. The only coins I sell now are duplicates & triplicates that have been upgraded and replaced.

    By the way, that's so interesting to have owned one of those coins alleged to have been swapped out by the evil Dr. Sheldon. I once wrote a lengthy thread here about Sheldon, whose escapades outside the realm of numismatics were even more famous than his 70-point grading scale, and more shocking than his alleged theft from the ANS and from a dying friend who trusted him.

    Best,
    Sunnywood
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    Sunnywood's Rainbow-Toned Morgans (Retired)

    Sunnywood's Barber Quarters (Retired)
  • hrlaserhrlaser Posts: 1,133 ✭✭
    okay so they're not over 200 years old.. and they didn't have Crayola iridescent Rainbows on them.. but.. i had four of these.. $390.00 from The Mint in 2000.. slabbed at a Long Beach show on a $50.00 or something same-day walk-through special by NGC.. yup, four of them.. sold them on eBay for $1600.00 to $1900.00 each about five years ago.. (and at the time, $1900.00 for a 70 was top dollar..) .. sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.. i've bought and sold a lot of coins, and i miss all the Vatican Euro Proof and Unc. sets i got at issue price and sold for VERY decent money too.. but i wish i had kept even ONE of these 70s.. at the time, i needed the money.. sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.. image

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  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,162 ✭✭✭✭✭
    By the way, TDN, if you happen to see this post, I must comment that even the fingerprint is pretty on that 1799 dollar !!

    Agreed!

    I was gonna flip you crap about that 1796 image, but I held my tongue. image
    Early Dollar Set
  • oldcameoproofsguyoldcameoproofsguy Posts: 3,174 ✭
    I wish that I still owned this one. Ex-ANACONDA, ex-stman, ex-oldcameoproofsguy. It was a little darker in hand but it was possibly one of the wildest proof Barber Quarters ever.

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  • CharlotteDudeCharlotteDude Posts: 3,060 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I regret selling this coin... I purchased it raw for $800 in 1997, sent it in to NGC in '03 and graded as AU-55; sold it last year for $8K... it was such a nice, original pup...

    C'dude

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  • MFHMFH Posts: 11,720 ✭✭✭✭

    I picked this coin up at a Bowers sale in April - 2005.

    [ image is from a previous sale by Heritage ]

    I flipped this coin and did okay - but I should have kept it !

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  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,060 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • LeonidasLeonidas Posts: 653
    I let this one go and should have had a better camera to capture the rim toning. It was in a PCGS holder
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  • MICHAELDIXONMICHAELDIXON Posts: 6,530 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • fishteethfishteeth Posts: 2,252 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Parted ways with this beauty to fund my bust half addiction

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  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,301 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ttt

    (Sorry, I'm lazy!)
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.

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