Added a new coin to my 1842 type set

Boosibri

Added this choice 1842-C $2.5 P45 CAC to my current set which excluding the large cent, is still all gold. Here are the $2.5's, all P45 CAC, all very tough especially the P mint:

EastonCollection

great looking coins! Congrats!

Nap

Lovely circulated coins.

Are you planning to go for the varieties for this year's issues as well?

Boosibri

<< <i>Lovely circulated coins.

Are you planning to go for the varieties for this year's issues as well? >>



That is why I started this year...cool transitional varieties.

I have the gold varieties as a "yes". I have two examples of the toughest variety, the 1842 $5 Large Letters. I still need to expensive 42-D LD and the 42-C SD $5's.

I haven't decided on the silver denominations as some of the 50c's are basically NC.

Moldnut

Wow, I need to get myself into gold.

Moldnut

Wow, I need to get myself into gold.

etexmike

Some very nice looking gold ya' got there.


Mike

ricko

Very nice gold... good luck with the rest of your quest... Cheers, RickO

Boosibri

Here are the $5's:

Athena

Impressive

steveben

that's a set that would be so cool in a capital holder. nice add!

lasvegasteddy

sweet example that matches great
congrats
quite a lil set there

rhedden

Nice group. I sometimes wonder if many of the people looking at these threads appreciate what they're viewing. So many of us collect coins with higher populations, and dodge the classic gold because of the cost of completing a set. Just finding an example of some of these dates, much less an attractive one, is a long quest.

CoinJunkie

JJSingleton

<< <i>that's a set that would be so cool in a capital holder. nice add! >>

Isn't that the truth. Great looking set.

Boosibri

<< <i>Nice group. I sometimes wonder if many of the people looking at these threads appreciate what they're viewing. So many of us collect coins with higher populations, and dodge the classic gold because of the cost of completing a set. Just finding an example of some of these dates, much less an attractive one, is a long quest. >>



Thanks for that! The niche of 1840's gold is very under appreciated. Consider only the 1842-D $5 above has more than 100 coins in existence, some only 50-60 (42 $2.5, 42 $5 LL, 42-O $5). Finding a nice example is really really tough!

The 1842 $5 Large Letters (two examples shown above and 2 of the 3 CAC certified coins) is the rarest Lib $5 outside the 54-S, 63, 65 and 75. There are maybe 40-50 in existence and these are probably two of 5 which have original surfaces. It is the rarest coin in the 1842 set and I happen to have found two nice ones!

TomB

That's a great looking group.

Boosibri

here is the only other coin in the set which i havent posted. i used to have a h10c, the 10c's a 50c, the S$1 and a C $5 but i retrenched a year or so back. now rebuilding.

1842 1C Small Date N-1 R4 P58 CAC