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New addition to Classic Head $5 set

Labelman87Labelman87 Posts: 610 ✭✭✭✭
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I would like to share with Classic Head and Gold collectors a new addition to a set I have been working on for some time. It resides in an NGC MS 60 holder, has some subtle, semi PL surfaces and has been in one family for over 150 years. Also, I would like to thank Doug Winter in assisting me in the acquisition.

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Craig


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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congrats! image
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  • BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,391 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow, very nice and very hard to come by.

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  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,672 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very cool coin.

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  • stevebensteveben Posts: 4,634 ✭✭✭✭✭
    that's one of the nicer looking 38-C's i have seen. congrats
  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image Very Nice

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,757 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congratulations.

    I have been for this coin for 3+ years. I wish I had seen THAT picture of it. The picture in the auction and their description of coin led me away from it. I asked the auction house for more information, and they never responded to my emails.

    You lucky to found it, and I guess I've got be like that fox that is looking up at the grape bush. image
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  • JJSingletonJJSingleton Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very attractive coin. A very tough date to find with nice eye appeal as BillJones above knows. Congrats.

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  • dagman100dagman100 Posts: 147 ✭✭
    Very nice coin. Clean fields and nice color. Congratulations.
  • MFHMFH Posts: 11,720 ✭✭✭✭

    Rarer than Hen's Teeth.

    Nicer looking too !
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  • TopographicOceansTopographicOceans Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭✭
    image
  • bosco5041bosco5041 Posts: 1,303 ✭
    Great coin you have there.
  • mariner67mariner67 Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭
    What eye candy!
    Thanks for sharing.
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  • Labelman87Labelman87 Posts: 610 ✭✭✭✭
    Bill,

    I was fortunate to have it carefully previewed and discussed the images and review in detail.

    Classic Head $5 fans don't worry, the Bass-Pogue specimen will be available next year! That will be really interesting.
    Craig


  • Labelman87Labelman87 Posts: 610 ✭✭✭✭
    My thanks to all for the kind complements.

    Edit: For new & old collectors, check out Doug Winter's (at raregoldcoins.com) Coinapedia for an image review of some fantastic gold coins.
    Craig


  • guitarwesguitarwes Posts: 9,290 ✭✭✭
    Super nice coin. Congrats on the pickup!
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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,757 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Bill,

    I was fortunate to have it carefully previewed and discussed the images and review in detail.

    Classic Head $5 fans don't worry, the Bass-Pogue specimen will be available next year! That will be really interesting. >>



    That one will be out of my price range for sure. It will sell for more than the most I have ever paid for a coin in the past, perhaps by a wide margin.
    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • BustCudsBustCuds Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭
    Super!! Congrats!! image
  • RonyahskiRonyahski Posts: 3,119 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That is a special coin, congratulations!

    For the non-CHG collectors: the 1838-C $5 is the rarest of all CHG $ 2 1/2 and $5 in high grade. The Bass specimen mentioned is graded PCGS 63, the only PCGS coin graded in Mint State and by far the finest 38-C known. NGC has a but a few coins graded mint state, including this coin. It only gets a bit better, as there are only about 8 coins that grade AU-58 from both services (after adjusting for errors in the pop reports).

    This coin didn't come cheap, but I think it was a great purchase for you.
    Some refer to overgraded slabs as Coffins. I like to think of them as Happy Coins.
  • DUIGUYDUIGUY Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭
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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow, fantastic coin!
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  • lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,432 ✭✭✭
    sweet example there
    i love that reverse of course that "C" above the date adds...bigtime
    congrats
    interesting background story too
    everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see


  • DUIGUYDUIGUY Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Wow, fantastic coin! >>



    image


    WOWZERS !!

    Code for "Holy Sheet"!!
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    - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC
  • CharlotteDudeCharlotteDude Posts: 3,162 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That is truly a fantastic '38-C HE! Lovely, lovely coin!

    'dude
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  • kazkaz Posts: 9,256 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Holy cow, what a sweet piece of Charlotte gold!

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