THE FINEST QUALITY EARLY SILVER COIN
STEWARTBLAYNUMIS
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IN MY HUMBLE OPINION the absolute finest early silver coin is my 1807 quarter.I recently went to my stash and really studied it.Its preservation is amazing !
Its got original skin,200 years of patina, which is absolutely fuc-ing gorgeous, and POP which will make your shorts bulge.The design and strike of the coin is just about as good as it gets.
BTW in the words of PCGS master grader Ron Howard it has what he calls BINGO.Both PCGS and NGC graded the coin ms 67.
I would be willing to display my coin alongside anything silver.IMHO it blows away the 1796 quarter graded ms 67,the 1806 half graded ms 67 and any early half dime graded whatever.
I guess I will also mention I just turned down $1,000,000 for the coin because I feel it is irreplaceable.
The coin is best viewed in person but it can be seen on Shylocks web-site coingallery.org
Stewart Blay
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I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
<< <i>Is it finer than the Contursi 1794 dollar? I saw that one in hand and it is astonishing. >>
Yes. The AMON CARTER 1794 dollar is kinda a drab light brownish color in person [although it certainly photographs well with enough light on it]. Stewart's quarter is amazingly fresh and spectacular in hand.
Stewart: I bid $1.1M!
roadrunner
but when blood starts to leave your cranium towards another part of you anatomy while holding a slab IMHO it's time for a new hobby
Will the slab be sanitized prior to the scheduled auction?
roadrunner
BTW, I graded the Eliasberg 1796 a quarter point higher than the 1807 when I viewed the sale. It would be fun to put the two coins side by side again, for show and tell.
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If there was one coin I had to have it would be this quarter.
Yes, he bought it out of the auction.
I guess I have been in a hole, I didn't know that it existed.
Thanks for sharing.
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etexmike
Stewart - Do you remember the Norweb 1800 half dime?
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With proof coins it is far easier to screw with the surfaces, clean then up occasionally, and still have them tone back down over the years for us to admire them today. Many a proof coin, even with a high grade assigned has some pretty dead surfaces hiding under that flashy and iridescent patina.
The above comparison is why early on I leaned heavily toward MS coins and steered away from proofs. It's actually easier imo to identify a screwed with business strike than a messed with proof when they are both toned. In most cases the proof coins (post 1858) were far more common than their business strike sisters.
roadrunner
Stewart, you don't need any more nice coins!
roadrunner
<< <i>I'd like to see what that coin would look like in a Mark Goodman image. >>
Or PCGS truview!
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I would have said SOLD!
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<< <i>Is it finer than the Contursi 1794 dollar? I saw that one in hand and it is astonishing. >>
Yes. The AMON CARTER 1794 dollar is kinda a drab light brownish color in person [although it certainly photographs well with enough light on it]. Stewart's quarter is amazingly fresh and spectacular in hand.
Stewart: I bid $1.1M!
Agreed, TDN. The pedigree of this dollar should not be denigrated by Mr. Crackout.
Stewart's coin is a real frosty gem, but I'll bet the edge reeding isn't complete. Seems the collar didn't work properly this year for the quarter dollars.
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http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistr...dset.aspx?s=68269&ac=1">Musky 1861 Mint Set
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unscramble the letters:
ginbo
gobin
ingob
bigon
bingo ?
BOING !
My 1866 Philly Mint Set
He was good as Opie, alright as Richie Cunningham, but really became a great director. He grades coins too?
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Would love to see the coin in person. I suspect it's everything LMS claims it to be. Congrats on having the guts to step up and buy it when you did. Was velveta the underbidder?
<< <i>When NGC saw that coin did they suggest a "conservation" and then the possibility of a MS68 holder?
roadrunner >>
Exactly what I was thinking. This is precisely the kind of coin that it would work on.
I'll only consider buying it if you get a CAC sticker on it.
K S
When the lot was piece-mealed out to collectors and dealers (by B G Johnson in St. Louis in the late 1930s), Jimmy MacCallister got the biggest amount, "about 100 pieces" according to Abe Kosoff who was a new dealer in 1937. This is his number based on recall of some 30 years later. Unfortunately, his estimate is not really valid according to the numbers that have been tracked since.
We are talking only the Uncirculated pieces here. The finest one from the Green hoard was offered in a 1939 JC Morgenthau sale #404. The buyer was one of the Stack brothers in NYC. This coin recently came onto the market from the Knoxville collection, and is considered the finest one of the date.
Whether it is the finest early silver coin depends on what qualifiers are considered.
Any pieces that are still remaining are most likely in a bank vault in NYC, as MacCallister had good contacts with people who were involved with the NY Stock Exchange.
More information can be found in my Henry Voigt book, where I devote an entire chapter to the 1796 quarters.