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Two Pogue coins that I really appreciate that are not classic ultra rarities....

SethChandlerSethChandler Posts: 1,715 ✭✭✭✭
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There are a lot of coins that I love in the Pogue collection. We can talk all day about the 1804 Dollars, 1854-S & 1822 Half Eagles, the Gem baby eagle Halves but these two really do it for me. I appreciate them and wonder how in the world these coins survive like this for 200 years.

The 1807 Half Eagle is PCGS graded MS67+. Look at that luster! Utter perfection. I have not seen the coin in person, but I could get lost by swirling that coin under a strong light.

The 1818 Half Eagle is PCGS graded MS66. Its the Eliasberg coin. I have been in love with this coin ever since I was a kid and first received the Eliasberg sale catalogue. Look at that strike, you can see Liberty's throat. Graded raw MS67 in the sale, degradeflation?

Enjoy:


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Collecting since 1976.

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  • BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Beautiful coins, if not rarities in the absolute sense, certainly rarities in that superb condition.

    Latin American Collection

  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That 1807 is totally hardcore.
    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • NicNic Posts: 3,386 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>That 1807 is totally hardcore. >>



    Yes she is!

    My 1866 Philly Mint Set

  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,547 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Beautiful coins, if not rarities in the absolute sense, certainly rarities in that superb condition. >>


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  • CatbertCatbert Posts: 7,312 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Coins of beauty, but poor ugly Miss Liberty on the 1818. I just can't imagine why it was necessary to make her so mannish in appearance! image
    Seated Half Society member #38
    "Got a flaming heart, can't get my fill"
  • ColonelJessupColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The most jaded of us will continue to be flabbergasted.....

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  • PQueuePQueue Posts: 901 ✭✭✭
    SethChandler...
    You are spot on again. Beautiful pieces...
    I love both, although I always have a bias towards Fat Heads. I see it is BD-3, the least available 5D/50 variety.
    Thanks for posting the pics, made my day.
  • jmbjmb Posts: 594 ✭✭✭
    Both coins are stunning.
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,356 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Two utterly gorgeous coins!
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • agentjim007agentjim007 Posts: 6,256 ✭
    I'm saving my money for the good ones.
  • stevebensteveben Posts: 4,620 ✭✭✭✭✭
    dreck. nobody bid on them. image
  • AblinkyAblinky Posts: 628 ✭✭✭
    Both are magnificent, I would be proud to own either one if I had the funds.

    Andrew Blinkiewicz-Heritage

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