Teamed up with illini420 for some long distance cherry pickin' in California!

bolivarshagnasty

Spotted a couple of rpm possibilities in the Heritage ANA auction last month. I new that illini420 was looking for an 09-s/s FS-1501 Lincoln and I had my eye on an 11-s/s FS-501.
He was gracious enough attend the show and then call me with his findings after reviewing the coins in hand before the Heritage auction. Turns out both coins were the rpm's
we were looking for. Both were able to win our auctions and have since had them attributed. Thanks again Mike!!!
PCGS MS64RB FS-501 pop 4/0 with 0 in Red.

keyman64

Holy Cow, congrats!

mkman123

Illini420 is a great guy, always very nice and helpful in my experience with him.

illini420

Yeah, Mel contacted me about the possible 1909-S/S FS-1501 pretty quickly after the Heritage coins were put up on the Internet for viewing. It was really cool of him to give me the heads up since he knew I was looking for an example of this variety. Thanks again, Mel!! I usually go to the Hertage lot viewings since they have them close by in Beverly Hills now so I was happy to check both of these out in person before we made our bids. The 1909-S/S FS-1501 is a much tougher variety than the 1909-S/S FS-1502 usually referred to as the S/Horizontal S. Including this coin, there are now only 20 coins of this variety certified and attributed by PCGS in all grades. This MS64RB is the only example in this grade and is 6th highest grade of those attributed with only two MS65RB, a single MS66RB, a single MS65RD and a single MS66RD being graded higher.

Here are the Heritage photos of the coin:


Here are my pics of the coin in it's new slab (not sure why they didn't keep the same cert no.):


A few closer shots of the coin:


An attempt at a close up shot of the S/S RPM:



Definitely plan on sending it out for a professional photo one of these days

I'm very happy that Mel and I were able to each get a really tough RPM for our collections and were both able to win them at reasonable prices. It was really fun to be at the lot viewing with the Cherrypicker's guide in hand confirming both were the real deal! Even with my 10x loupe the varieties can sometimes be hard to confirm for sure, but these weren't too difficult. Might need to invest in a 20x!!

Anyways, here's the small set I'm working on now that now includes the 1909-S/S FS-1501:

United States Copper of 1909

Still need to do some work on photos and descriptions of the coins and still have a few coins to add for it to be complete, but it's a fun set to put together

illini420

<< <i>Illini420 is a great guy, always very nice and helpful in my experience with him. >>




Haha, you're just trying to butter me up and get me to sell you some more cool stuff

johnny9434

good eye and catch

illini420

When I sent my new 1909-S/S FS-1501 in to PCGS for variety attribution I included a post it note on the submission form letting them know it is a fairly rare variety that they didn't have imaged in CoinFacts. Figured I'd give them the heads up if they wanted to include it and also to try to get a free image of it for myself I wasn't sure they would do it because I thought their Condition Census imaging offer was only for Secure Plus orders and I wasn't submitting under Secure Plus.

Well when I got the coin back the return form had my post it note stuck to it with no mention of a photo. Checked CoinFacts for the next week or so and nothing... I figured oh well, too bad for them then.

Anyways, was browsing CoinFacts today and figured I'd go check out the page for this coin, mostly to see if they updated the pop of the variety in MS64RB from 0 to 1 to reflect my coin getting attributed. To my surprise, I see a big picture of my coin on the page and a close up of the RPM, very very cool by PCGS to actually read my note and act on it. It's just too bad I wasn't made aware of it somehow, but I'll take the surprise without any further complaint

Here's a small image of the coin by PCGS (the super big version is on CoinFacts):



And here's their close up shot of the RPM which is up on CoinFacts:



Wow again, thanks PCGS!!! I really can't wait for PCGS to get quality photos like this of every variety that is out there up onto CoinFacts. Was hesitant about the monthly fee when I first subscribed, but every day it's getting better and becoming more and more of a good deal.

bolivarshagnasty

Great to see your coin in Coinfacts Mike! Mel