Time for some "Old U.S. Gold", Civil War and older...dirty, clean, toned, purdy, lustrous

Goldbully

Little bit of dirt and luster on this piece.

This should be a fun and eye appealing thread.....wonder if RYK has any entries that fit the thread criteria?.....

lkeigwin

I got this one from a forum member.

I have another...a Charlotte '39 half eagle. But this is prettier.
Lance.

Priller

AU50 CAC

liefgold

Dirty: AU55

ranshdow

Since we're working on the Princess 1's and 3's..

jmb

drwstr123

crazyhounddog

LindeDad

JazzmanJAB

GeorgeKellogg

Here's a coin that always had that "old gold" look to me.

Here's the backstory: It was placed into the Billy Fuller Collection (a resident of Florida) by the Atlanta firm of Hanc'k and Harwell in the early 1980s. Mr. Fuller's collection of Charlotte and Dahlonega gold was auctioned by Heritage at the 1993 ANA summer convention in Baltimore, which I attended with my Dad. It was my "first ever" ANA!

The coins were raw and this particular piece was purchased in the auction by Doug Winter, who was based in Dallas at the time. I met Doug for the first time and I got him to autograph my hardbound copies of his Charlotte and New Orleans gold books. I remember him saying the Charlotte book (published in 1987) was rare in hardbound.

After the convention, Doug called me and offered the 1850-D gold dollar, freshly graded XF45 by PCGS. I bought it and have enjoyed it ever since. The date is a "sleeper" date among Dahlonega gold dollars. The piece has a "gem" obverse. The photo is courtesy of BluCC.

determined

1840 $5 Broad Mill AU55 NGC

Goldbully

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Wow, I didn't know they made $10 Indians before the civil war.
BTW, very pretty coin drwstr123.

And to the other posters, great Old Golden ladies.....this forum has some of the best U.S. GOLD coins on the planet.
Thanks for posting everyone......still waiting RYK......ooooops, looks like Pittsburgh has its hands full in NY.

liefgold

Love that 1850-D G$1. Bet it would grade 10 points higher today.

drwstr123

My apology....

OnlyGoldIsMoney

This thread needs some $2.50's.

Civil War dates.

Goldbully

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Glad you got some Civil War $2.50 gold in the thread....great images too.
BTW, I've always loved your handle....so true IMHO.....you and I could be distant 'golden' cousins.

determined

Very cool Civil War dates OnlyGoldIsMoney!

coinguy1989

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I love the originality of this piece. The surfaces are also clean.

Goldbully

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Really super dark toned piece....love it!!

DUIGUY

Not exactly gold, semi gold perhaps;

JJM

my bad

BillJones

1861 half eagle, MS-62




1860-D Half Eagle, MS-62

GeorgeKellogg

I posted a gold dollar; now here's a quarter eagle with an interesting backstory.

I was talking to Doug Winter on the phone in 1994 and he said that he just sold a coin that I would like to Atlanta dealer Jack Hanc'k. It was a low mintage 1853-D quarter eagle, uncertified, from the 1963 Stack's George Walton duplicates auction. The duplicates were auctioned in June 1963 and the main Walton collection went under the hammer in October. Mr. Walton is most famous for owning the "missing" 1913 Liberty Head Nickel.

I was becoming more and more interested in coins with an impressive provenance, so I called Jack and had him ship me the coin on approval. I looked it over carefully and saw no reason that it shouldn't grade at PCGS. I tried to get Jack to "guarantee" that it would grade and he said "no," that I was an experienced collector (and didn't need a safety net). I decided to buy the piece and sent it off to PCGS right away. There was no photo in the Walton duplicates auction catalog; I just had the auction flip. I did confirm that the auction lot number on the flip matched up to an 1853-D quarter eagle.

The coin came back XF40 (but they didn't put the provenance on the cert label), which is the grade level at which the piece had been purchased. Jack used "old school" grading standards. The photo is courtesy of BluCC.

ambro51

One of my lowest "grade" gold dollars but one of the more interesting. This is one of those " if only coins could talk" pieces. One can only wonder how much wine wimmen and song this battered little wisp of gold provided......there is a little dent in it which long puzzled me until one old cowboy movie on tv had a scene of a cowpoke at the saloon giving a coin a "bite" to see if it was gold! The 1859 S gold dollar is possibly the rarest of all when you look at the condition census pieces. Though well struck as we're all SF gold dollars ( par with Phila) they were immediately put into circulation. Gold at that time in the far west was the main circulating money rather than the myriad banknotes in the east.

Goldbully

Lots of great gold guys....really love the stories that go along with your oldie goldies.


My story here is, I love orange toned gold.

CharlotteDude

Something crusty... very crusty:



Something Civil War-ish:


'dude

jmb

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Thanks. It's PCGS XF45 CAC.

Love the 47-C, Dude.