1849/8 $10- fantastic colors, strange strike...

ranshdow

http://coins.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=1152&Lot_No=4531

Can someone tell me what's going on here? I look at this coin and I see luster on the devices bordering on the prooflike, colors to rival a Chagall, yet the eagle's right breast, wing and arrow feathers are mushy as all get-out, with some weakness on obv curls as well. Die cracks= mushy strike? This is a crazy coin all 'round.

mdwoods

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coinguy1

It doesn't look strange to me. It simply looks like a flashy unc. coin with some striking weakness, and a bit of color (though not nearly what I had expected from the "colors to rival a Chagall" reference).

ranshdow

For a gold coin, that's wild color. Almost too wild.

Euro gold can show color like that, but it's usually dull and dirty when unmolested. Maybe dipped Euro gold can look like that, but it's unusual at any rate.

CaptHenway

Looks like a very nice original coin to me. The bit of weak strike does not bother me.
By the way, I am in the camp that this is an 1849/1849 coin, not a 9/8, but I still like it.

TD

AnkurJ

<< <i>It doesn't look strange to me. It simply looks like a flashy unc. coin with some striking weakness, and a bit of color (though not nearly what I had expected from the "colors to rival a Chagall" reference). >>



Agreed.

crypto79

I like that coin a lot,

lordmarcovan

Looks great to me. I don't find the colors to be that big a deal, but then again, I don't have the coin in hand.

(If anybody wants to PUT it in my hand, I'm more than ready, haha.)

CaptHenway

<< <i>Looks great to me. I don't find the colors to be that big a deal, but then again, I don't have the coin in hand.

(If anybody wants to PUT it in my hand, I'm more than ready, haha.) >>



I don't think it should end up on your hat.......