Finally got back my "Long Lost" S-2 1873 Double Liberty Indian Cent!
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Many of you may remember my post a few weeks ago on AJ's You Suck Anniversary thread about an 1873 S-2 Double Liberty Indian cent:
When I first started collecting/buying/selling Indian cents, I won an unc raw 1873 Cl. 3 Indian cent off Ebay for $110. It was a beautiful coin, probably MS64 RB. Right after the auction ended, I received an email from another Ebayer offering to buy it for an extra $100. I told him I would have to wait until I had the coin in hand to see it for myself before I would sell it. That email made me suspicious, so I decided to take a good close look at the coin when I got it to see why this guy wanted it so badly. So as soon as the coin arrived, I pulled out my Flynn variety book and compared this coin to all the 1873 varieties, and, yes, I'm sure you guessed it, it was the double die variety - unfortunately not the type 1, but almost as good - it was the second variety with most of the letters in Liberty strongly doubled. Of course I hooted and yelped and was so excited that my family wondered what was going on. I can sincerely say that that was the moment my husband and kids finally understood the true value of a penny! Any way, I ended up taking this coin to the Long Beach show and selling it raw for $2,000. Though this happened a while ago, that is my best "you suck" story.
Well, I saw this 1873 S-2 on Rick's website a little while ago, and I'd swear it was the same coin I sold all those years ago so, of course, I just had to have it - and now I do, and here's a photo I just got back from Todd - it fits right in with my Open and Closed 1873 Indian cents:
I'd love to see any other S-1 and S-2 double Liberty Indian cents - please post yours!
When I first started collecting/buying/selling Indian cents, I won an unc raw 1873 Cl. 3 Indian cent off Ebay for $110. It was a beautiful coin, probably MS64 RB. Right after the auction ended, I received an email from another Ebayer offering to buy it for an extra $100. I told him I would have to wait until I had the coin in hand to see it for myself before I would sell it. That email made me suspicious, so I decided to take a good close look at the coin when I got it to see why this guy wanted it so badly. So as soon as the coin arrived, I pulled out my Flynn variety book and compared this coin to all the 1873 varieties, and, yes, I'm sure you guessed it, it was the double die variety - unfortunately not the type 1, but almost as good - it was the second variety with most of the letters in Liberty strongly doubled. Of course I hooted and yelped and was so excited that my family wondered what was going on. I can sincerely say that that was the moment my husband and kids finally understood the true value of a penny! Any way, I ended up taking this coin to the Long Beach show and selling it raw for $2,000. Though this happened a while ago, that is my best "you suck" story.
Well, I saw this 1873 S-2 on Rick's website a little while ago, and I'd swear it was the same coin I sold all those years ago so, of course, I just had to have it - and now I do, and here's a photo I just got back from Todd - it fits right in with my Open and Closed 1873 Indian cents:
I'd love to see any other S-1 and S-2 double Liberty Indian cents - please post yours!
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Excellent story
but what did you have to pay this time???
Larry
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Coin's for sale/trade.
Tom Pilitowski
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<< <i>Excellent story
but what did you have to pay this time???
Larry
Dabigkahuna >>
Surprisingly, not that much more!
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