Collector Find 5 1990S No "S' Proof Cents

KollectorKing

http://www.numismaticnews.net/article/just-looking-makes-reader-50000-richer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=nmn-cfb-nl-170818&utm_content=963970_EDT_NUM-FRI170818&utm_medium=email

golden

Score!

CaptHenway

Shazam!!!!!

mbogoman

Holy cow!!! Jackpot!!!

AUandAG

Without better pics I'd say the top and bottom ones have a shot at DCAM.

bob

Manorcourtman

That is awesome! I bet there are many more out there in closets around the country.

ECHOES

Wow!

logger7

This goes to show that many "rare" coins may not really be that rare. How many others check their sets at the same time without scoring? 100? 1000? I doubt that. A lot of the rare varieties are just waiting for verification and maybe then the price comes down, like certain formerly rare coins that changed. On a side note I have been seeing low pop. Chinese dollars getting certified as real and at better grades, and expect the certification to change the high pricing similarly.

joebb21

talk about jumping the pop report. Expose 1-sell it off, break out the second, sell it ...

BAJJERFAN

What's the best way to sell something like this? As an intact set? Graded set? As a single coin?

MedalCollector

@BAJJERFAN said:
What's the best way to sell something like this? As an intact set? Graded set? As a single coin?

Not reporting it to the news, getting them graded, and selling them individually over a period of time. JMO

Batman23

And to think... had he left them sealed and had them graded he might have qualified for First Strike!

Very nice score! Too bad all mine had S stamped on them.

ricko

Great find.... this will have forum members scurrying to their hoards of Mint coins... Including me...Cheers, RickO

1Mike1

Its always exciting when finds like this are made.

MACGE1

The pop on these has been increasing quite a lot in the last 2-3 years. A few years ago a 69dcam was a $10k coin all day, now it's more like $5,000. Even if all 5 of them go 69dcam they would be worth $25k or so. In the article it says $50-$100k referencing an auction result from 10 years ago needlessly getting the finders hopes up IMO.
Just sayin...

jdimmick

A local customer of mine found one in box of proof sets at a local yard sale (about 2 years ago). His graded 68, had a tiny speck of corrosion at rim.

STEWARTBLAYNUMIS

If one of them grade proof 70 we are talking Unchartered territory.
My guess would be 20k in a heart beat

MACGE1 - remember all of these coins have been saved .its not like a proof from 1890
Where we talk survival rates

My humble guess is there are + or - 300 1990 no s cents
A proof 68 d Cam is a $ 4,000 coin
A proof 69. D Cam is an $ 8,000 coin
A proof 70. D Cam is a $25,000 coin

MACGE1

@STEWARTBLAYNUMIS said:
If one of them grade proof 70 we are talking Unchartered territory.
My guess would be 20k in a heart beat

MACGE1 - remember all of these coins have been saved .its not like a proof from 1890
Where we talk survival rates

My humble guess is there are + or - 300 1990 no s cents
A proof 68 d Cam is a $ 4,000 coin
A proof 69. D Cam is an $ 8,000 coin
A proof 70. D Cam is a $25,000 coin

I agree that there are 300 or so coins in existence.

A 69dcam isn't an $8,000 coin, I'll sell mine to you for $7,500 if think that it is

STEWARTBLAYNUMIS

Oops made a mistake
The 1990 no s in 69 D Cam is only a $5,000 coin

DCW

There may be 300 or so out there, but how many are ruined from sitting in mint packaging? I've seen some fugly no S cents corroded in these sets.

keets

This goes to show that many "rare" coins may not really be that rare

no, I don't think it shows that at all.

thebeav

That's really nice.
Over many, many years, with the tens of thousands of proof sets I've bought and sold there were only a few of the dates that I ever inspected. Just the years that offered this possibility, and of course, the type two jobs....I did find a couple of 1970 P dimes and at least one 1971 P nickel.....Just enough to keep me looking for 30 some years....