Bought raw - thought it should be submitted to PCGS!!

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Windycity
Windycity Posts: 3,603 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Talk about totally original... I picked this up a while ago and it was in this envelope. I paid a bit more than the $6 price tag!! Submitted to PCGS and they liked it!!

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  • 123cents
    123cents Posts: 7,178 ✭✭✭
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    Congratulations! that is a beauty.
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  • DollarAfterDollar
    DollarAfterDollar Posts: 3,217 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Cool deal.

    Bet the notes on the envelope were written in the 1930's.
    If you do what you always did, you get what you always got.
  • PTVETTER
    PTVETTER Posts: 6,136 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    that's a winner for sure!image
    Pat Vetter,Mercury Dime registry set,1938 Proof set registry,Pat & BJ Coins:724-325-7211


  • steveben
    steveben Posts: 4,666 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    nice coin! was it a lot more than $6 or a little more than $6? either way, it sounds like you might deserve a "you suck" award. nicely done!
  • Boosibri
    Boosibri Posts: 12,718 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    That's really cool, congrats!

    Latin American Collection

  • crazyhounddog
    crazyhounddog Posts: 14,250 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    WOW!!!! image
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  • CaptHenway
    CaptHenway Posts: 34,170 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Excellent!
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  • Mark
    Mark Posts: 3,645 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    That's really nice! What a cool pickup and coin. Do you know anything more about the envelope, eg, who wrote it, when was it written, or????
    Mark


  • Cacoinguy
    Cacoinguy Posts: 279 ✭✭✭
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    Stunning coin !
  • DennisH
    DennisH Posts: 14,041 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    What a gorgeous little thing!
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  • messydesk
    messydesk Posts: 20,819 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Great opportunity taken! Very nice coin!
    John
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  • Kyle
    Kyle Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Stunning coin.

    Have anymore information on the backstory? Where you bought it?
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  • lasvegasteddy
    lasvegasteddy Posts: 10,492 ✭✭✭
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    sweet example there
    what a rocking grade with a rocking example

    after market envelope though

    most if i'm not mistaken original proofs from back then were in mohair like lined tin presentation boxes

    huge congrats

    everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see


  • Timbuk3
    Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Sweet !!! image
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  • johnny9434
    johnny9434 Posts: 34,080 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    thats wicked cool, congrats image
  • Baley
    Baley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    << <i>Stunning coin.

    Have anymore information on the backstory? Where you bought it? >>



    Yep, everyone's curious where someone "picks up" something like this. Great coin!

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  • bosco5041
    bosco5041 Posts: 1,303 ✭
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    That's a beauty!
  • lkeigwin
    lkeigwin Posts: 16,895 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Nice! A gorgeous example. Congrats.
    Lance.
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  • jmski52
    jmski52 Posts: 24,011 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Wow!
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    I knew it would happen.
  • WaterSport
    WaterSport Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The crowd here loves it! And so do I!

    WS
    Proud recipient of the coveted PCGS Forum "You Suck" Award Thursday July 19, 2007 11:33 PM and December 30th, 2011 at 8:50 PM.
  • Windycity
    Windycity Posts: 3,603 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    This coin was picked up with a collection from the sellers Grand Father... most everything was Whitman folder circulated silver coins and average circulated currency.... and this one gold proof dollar. I paid a very fair price for it and hoped it would grade well. While I do not know any more about the original owner, I can only assume this coin was purchased by the Grand Father or perhaps great grand father and kept in the family for a very long time. Thanks for the comments... pretty happy with this one. Good way to end 2014!!
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  • Bochiman
    Bochiman Posts: 25,790 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I love seeing things like this......it shows how WRONG people are when they say that "all the good coins have already been submitted to a TPGS and the raw ones that are out there aren't worth it".....
    This shows how wrong that is!

    Congrats! It looks beyootiful!

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  • Cocoinut
    Cocoinut Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Very cool coin and story! I would guess it was purchased in the 1920's or 1930's. My 1932 edition of Max Mehl's Rare Coin Encyclopedia shows his buying price for 1886 gold dollars ranging from $1.60 to $2.50.

    Interesting side note: on the previous page of Mehl's book, proof trade dollars were worth 75 to 80 CENTS!!! Wouldn't we all love to be able to go back in time?

    Jim
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  • TopographicOceans
    TopographicOceans Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭✭
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    I like it tooimage
  • sparky64
    sparky64 Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Outstanding. image

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  • icsoccer
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  • DeliaBug
    DeliaBug Posts: 881 ✭
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    Wow. It takes some serious stones to buy raw proof gold. Good eye!
  • Justlooking
    Justlooking Posts: 2,895 ✭
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    REAL nice. Wowee. image
    Let's try not to get upset.
  • Smittys
    Smittys Posts: 9,877 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Love it
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  • Yorkshireman
    Yorkshireman Posts: 4,616 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Beautiful
    Yorkshireman,Obsessed collector of round, metallic pieces of history.Hunting for Latin American colonial portraits plus cool US & British coins.
  • breakdown
    breakdown Posts: 2,402 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Great story. Very happy that it worked out.image

    "Look up, old boy, and see what you get." -William Bonney.

  • georgiacop50
    georgiacop50 Posts: 2,909 ✭✭✭✭
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    Wow! FNChiguy!
  • puffer
    puffer Posts: 535
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    Nice coin, looks to be worth around $10K.

    Price Guide*
    Grade Coin World
    (Coin Values) Numismedia
    Retail Numismedia
    Wholesale Heritage Value
    Index NGC
    Price Guide NGC+ PCGS
    Price Guide PCGS+
    64 $8,000 $6,690 $5,350 $4,500-$5,750 $6,690 $7,200 $6,900 $7,350
    65 $13,000 $12,410 $9,925 $8,000-$9,750 $12,310 $13,300 $12,500 $13,000
  • Goldbully
    Goldbully Posts: 18,558 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Speechless!
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  • nepbrs44
    nepbrs44 Posts: 600 ✭✭
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    That one is a beauty! Congrats on that.
    Bill.

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  • SeattleSlammer
    SeattleSlammer Posts: 10,125 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Now that's something you don't see everyday. Pretty awesome.
  • nwcoast
    nwcoast Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Great history/story!

    And, one crazy gorgeous coin!!!image

    Congratulations on the clean grade... So nice that it had been safely tucked away in that envelope, and not messed with, for all these years....

    Happy, humble, honored and proud recipient of the “You Suck” award 10/22/2014

  • coinkat
    coinkat Posts: 24,542 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    congrats... terrific coin

    Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.

  • OldEastside
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    Beautiful, hope it stay there for the next 128 years image

    Steve
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  • SkyMan
    SkyMan Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    That's a beautiful coin! image
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  • CaptHenway
    CaptHenway Posts: 34,170 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Can't believe that nobody has yet said:

    "That's my grandfather's handwriting! Thank you for finding our long-lost treasure!"

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  • Wolf359
    Wolf359 Posts: 7,666 ✭✭✭
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    Close to DCAM if you ask me. What a score.
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  • luckybucks
    luckybucks Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭
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    << <i>Cool deal.

    Bet the notes on the envelope were written in the 1930's. >>



    Ah to have been a coin collector back then !!.

    Super nice coin !!
  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Marvelous coin.....congratulations....Cheers, RickO
  • etexmike
    etexmike Posts: 6,852 ✭✭✭
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    I'm with the crowd here. She is a beauty.


    Mike
  • littlebear
    littlebear Posts: 1,600 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Absolutely magnificent!!!


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  • Nap
    Nap Posts: 1,777 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Nice coin!

    I love old envelopes and dealer tickets. The Brits are more into keeping that stuff than Americans are.

    I think you did the right thing getting it slabbed though. Surface is too delicate to be sliding around in an envelope.
    My medieval coin collection

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