My Bowers (Ponterio) win (with pic) tonight. Anyone else?

OchoReales

1767 Potosi 2 Reales (described as VF, upgrades my current piece and a tough coin it is!) First year for the type!




B&M photo from the site.

Zohar

Congrats, very nice!

They did not have many Talers, and the ones they had were priced too high in my opinion.

Silvereagle82

I bid on several but only picked this one up.
Nothing special but I really like the reverse. and it is about a 1/2 oz of gold.

1917 Mexico 20 Pesos
NGC MS-62

WWW

Silvereagle82

www.... I really love that 8 reale

OchoReales

Great pickups Bill. I was spying the Bolivian eight myself but it really is not within my parameters. Glad you go it. I really love the CAR coinage too. Great design!

laurentyvan

All beautiful but WWW nabs my Eyepopper Award

What a pair!

WWW

Thank you for the compliments, guys! The Bolivian is a new type coin for me. I was immediately intrigued by the piece when I saw the CAR counter-mark.
A cool looking design and the toning finally made it a "Gotta Have It" coin. I'm sure the consignor and Ponterio are very pleased with that.

I really like the design of the 1917 Mexican gold and Gary has scored a very nice upgrade. Way to go guys!

marcmoish

Gary don't you just hate Bill?!
I know I do
...those newps are really eye-popping drool material....

Nice upgrade for ya!



I snared a lowly French Indo-China key date Cent in MS for my obsolete collection which I pray is nice in hand.



Marc

JCMhouston

All very nice, you guys did good.

FilamCoins

Sold my small Cuban and Mexican collection in this auction, but prices realized were pretty soft.

My USPI did much better with Heritage in NYC in Jan.

Zohar

Thanks for sharing these beauties!

sbeverly

I bid on several but only picked this one up. Nothing special but I really like the reverse. and it is about a 1/2 oz of gold. 1917 Mexico 20 Pesos NGC MS-62

Very WOW Silvereagle82

I've never seen this one before. The detail in the calendar is amazing...

And, how can you not appreciate the rugged symbolism of an Eagle perched on a Cactus while wrestling with a snake?
30 years ago it would make me want to belt back a couple of shots of Tequila.

TwoKopeiki

Great pick-ups, everyone. Bill, I can see why you were attracted to those 2. I completely missed this one (as always), since I have no idea what auctions are happening when

marcmoish

Gary, these grades in these issues are nice. I like these older issues in EF - you see some circulation but all details intact - kinda get the best of both worlds.
I wonder how it looks in hand v/s the picture they have.

OchoReales

Marc, I'd have to think (and hope) better because Bowers pics are much like Heritage (they leave a lot to be desired, MOST of the time). Here's to hoping for the best!

Silvereagle82

Gary,

I too find Bowers photos woefully subpar. They look like they took them with matted lens or something .... not very crisp.
The pictures in catalog seemd nicer to me .... but I don't why they would use different photos. Maybe they we crisper because they were smaller

OchoReales

I agree Conrad, the photos in this catalog were much better than usual. I actually took my lead from the online photos (which I was able to reasonably blow up without distorting the actual coin). In this particular case, I believe that this one will be very close in hand to the photos provided by Bowers.

1960NYGiants

I learned today that I won these two:


PCGS MS65RED


Molson Token Charlton LC16A3