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Newp 1873-S $10

ranshdowranshdow Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭✭
I am pleased. Do you like?

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  • MarkMark Posts: 3,565 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I keep seeing more and more old gold being posted and the coins keep getting more and more interesting. I never thought I'd be interested in collecting them but coins such as your specimen are sure sweet. They evoke such an interesting time and history.



    I don't know enough about the series to make an educated comment about the coin, but I definitely think you should be very happy with it.
    Mark


  • VanHalenVanHalen Posts: 4,326 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Boy the 1870's were good for U.S. coins! Nice example of a date not often seen. XF45?
  • ranshdowranshdow Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭✭
    Thanks Mark. I'll say outright it's not CAC. If it was it could very well be 20-40% more expensive, if not higher. I think there's only eight approved in all grades for this issue.

    This piece has good color, reasonably original (at least not stripped) surfaces, a lot of luster for the grade, and decent strike, at least compared to Reconstruction-era SF eagles. It's also got a lot of detail for the grade (XF45) and it is not hairlined. What it also has is a lot of surface chatter, and prominent hits to the neck, the field below the bun, and between stars 2 and 3. It also has a small but prominent rim bump at 11 o'clock.

    Are these the reasons it didn't CAC? I don't know, I didn't submit it so I didn't get to ask JA's opinion. Does it matter? I'm not sure. This piece has an awful lot going for it IMO, and that's why I'm happy with it.
  • BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,370 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice coins from an under appreciated era of US gold
  • TopographicOceansTopographicOceans Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭✭
    Rare gold is always image
  • jcpingjcping Posts: 2,649 ✭✭✭
    Tough date. Coinfact shows $3500 for EF45 grade. I guess JA wants more detail to put a bean on its holder.
    an SLQ and Ike dollars lover
  • sparky64sparky64 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am pleased. Do you like?


    Heck yeah.

    "If I say something in the woods and my wife isn't there to hear it.....am I still wrong?"

    My Washington Quarter Registry set...in progress

  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,513 ✭✭✭✭✭
    As long as you are happy...that is what matters.



    Nice (uncommon) gold piece!
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  • YorkshiremanYorkshireman Posts: 4,583 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very nice
    Yorkshireman,Obsessed collector of round, metallic pieces of history.Hunting for Latin American colonial portraits plus cool US & British coins.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice old gold.... has a lot of character. I like it, of course, I am partial to old gold anyway.

    It does not need a bean.... Cheers, RickO
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,070 ✭✭✭✭✭
    nice pick up image
  • CharlotteDudeCharlotteDude Posts: 3,146 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm a fan! ??

    'dude
    Got Crust....y gold?
  • Very nice indeed...
  • JJSingletonJJSingleton Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice looking S-mint Eagle. Congrats!

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  • ranshdowranshdow Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭✭
    Thanks everyone!

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