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

WindycityWindycity Posts: 3,470 ✭✭✭✭✭
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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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    123cents123cents Posts: 7,178 ✭✭✭
    Congratulations! that is a beauty.
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    DollarAfterDollarDollarAfterDollar Posts: 3,214 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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.
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    PTVETTERPTVETTER Posts: 5,882 ✭✭✭✭✭
    that's a winner for sure!image
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    stevebensteveben Posts: 4,596 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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!
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    BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 11,873 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That's really cool, congrats!

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    crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 13,817 ✭✭✭✭✭
    WOW!!!! image
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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 31,564 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Excellent!
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    MarkMark Posts: 3,522 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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


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    CacoinguyCacoinguy Posts: 279 ✭✭✭
    Stunning coin !
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    DennisHDennisH Posts: 13,963 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What a gorgeous little thing!
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    messydeskmessydesk Posts: 19,704 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great opportunity taken! Very nice coin!
    John
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    KyleKyle Posts: 1,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Stunning coin.

    Have anymore information on the backstory? Where you bought it?
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    lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,408 ✭✭✭
    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

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    Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sweet !!! image
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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 27,521 ✭✭✭✭✭
    thats wicked cool, congrats image
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    BaleyBaley Posts: 22,658 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <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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    bosco5041bosco5041 Posts: 1,303 ✭
    That's a beauty!
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    lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,887 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice! A gorgeous example. Congrats.
    Lance.
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    jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,380 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow!
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    I knew it would happen.
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    WaterSportWaterSport Posts: 6,709 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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.
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    WindycityWindycity Posts: 3,470 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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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    BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,304 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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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    CocoinutCocoinut Posts: 2,505 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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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    TopographicOceansTopographicOceans Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭✭
    I like it tooimage
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    sparky64sparky64 Posts: 7,026 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Outstanding. image

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    icsoccericsoccer Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭
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    DeliaBugDeliaBug Posts: 881 ✭
    Wow. It takes some serious stones to buy raw proof gold. Good eye!
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    JustlookingJustlooking Posts: 2,895 ✭
    REAL nice. Wowee. image
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    SmittysSmittys Posts: 9,876 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Love it
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    YorkshiremanYorkshireman Posts: 4,494 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Beautiful
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    breakdownbreakdown Posts: 1,953 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great story. Very happy that it worked out.image

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

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    georgiacop50georgiacop50 Posts: 2,909 ✭✭✭✭
    Wow! FNChiguy!
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    pufferpuffer Posts: 535
    Nice coin, looks to be worth around $10K.

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    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
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    GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 16,864 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Speechless!
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    nepbrs44nepbrs44 Posts: 600 ✭✭
    That one is a beauty! Congrats on that.
    Bill.

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    SeattleSlammerSeattleSlammer Posts: 9,959 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Now that's something you don't see everyday. Pretty awesome.
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    nwcoastnwcoast Posts: 2,845 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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

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    coinkatcoinkat Posts: 22,795 ✭✭✭✭✭
    congrats... terrific coin

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    OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Beautiful, hope it stay there for the next 128 years image

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    SkyManSkyMan Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That's a beautiful coin! image
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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 31,564 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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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    Wolf359Wolf359 Posts: 7,653 ✭✭✭
    Close to DCAM if you ask me. What a score.
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    luckybucksluckybucks Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭


    << <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 !!
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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Marvelous coin.....congratulations....Cheers, RickO
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    etexmikeetexmike Posts: 6,795 ✭✭✭
    I'm with the crowd here. She is a beauty.


    Mike
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    littlebearlittlebear Posts: 1,446 ✭✭✭✭
    Absolutely magnificent!!!


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    NapNap Posts: 1,705 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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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