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  • travlntiquestravlntiques Posts: 46 ✭✭✭

    This one happens to be the best raw Indian I've ever owned, the price was incredible and it happens to have some light clashing! Definitely one of my favorite purchases!

    "Character is doing the right thing when no one is watching". - J.C. Watts
    sarasotanumismatics.com
  • KollectorKingKollectorKing Posts: 4,820 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 6, 2017 3:13PM

    @carabonnair said:

    I like this one a lot - is that a die break near the 5 ?

    Great eyes. I hadn't noticed it till now & I've owned the coin for 10+ years. :o

  • StuartStuart Posts: 9,793 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Hi Bryce,

    McNeil’s SLQ is one of the most beautiful classic coin designs — This example is certainly deserving of the FN Designation... ;):#

    @BryceM said:
    I was in the market for a nice Type I Standing Lib Quarter and saw this when Tom Bush sent out an e-mail.

    His photos are great, and in-hand it did not disappoint. SLQ's just don't come like this. It lives in a PCGS MS66FH CAC holder.

    image


    Stuart

    Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal

    "Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
  • ECHOESECHOES Posts: 2,974 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @SanctionII said:
    Years ago I saw the coin pictured below sitting in an OGP SMS set at a coin show. It sang to me and I immediately bought the set for the cost of a hot dog (with mustard and relish) and a soft drink at the coin show concession stand.

    Almost the same for me, found by chance...

    ~HABE FIDUCIAM IN DOMINO III V VI / III XVI~
    POST NUBILA PHOEBUS / AFTER CLOUDS, SUN
    Love for Music / Collector of Dreck
  • david3142david3142 Posts: 3,588 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I had been looking for a nice 13-S T2 for my album for a long time. (Well it seemed like a long time, as I was going to 7-8 shows per year). I liked this one the moment I saw it, I was only hoping the price would be right. And it was! Thanks Ed Hipps. It's a late die state but very clean and nice luster in hand.


  • ChangeInHistoryChangeInHistory Posts: 3,084 ✭✭✭✭✭


    And this one, i just dig the No Stars look on seated coins

  • jtlee321jtlee321 Posts: 2,365 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ElmerFusterpuck said:
    Snapped these up as soon I saw them, the Seated here on the BST, the Walker at a coin show.



    You owe me a new keyboard!! Wow.. Those are stunning. That Walker is exactly what I would like to have in my collection. :)

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,167 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @SanctionII said:
    Years ago I saw the coin pictured below sitting in an OGP SMS set at a coin show. It sang to me and I immediately bought the set for the cost of a hot dog (with mustard and relish) and a soft drink at the coin show concession stand.

    this i like :)

  • kazkaz Posts: 9,257 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm sorry to post a link but I can't get the imaging sharing at collective coin to work (maybe Stack's turned it off?)
    1876-cc Trade Dollar
    https://collectivecoin.com/kaz/all-coins/EUjaa4uNGQvUcw6445XZ

  • GotTheBugGotTheBug Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 17, 2019 4:15AM

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  • RayboRaybo Posts: 5,337 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @OldIndianNutKase said:
    I use this coin as my avatar on this forum. It is a PR65+ with great color that is special for CuNi cents. This coin was a natural fit for my toned IHC PR collection. Rare with color.

    OINK
    I had a complete set of FE/IHC in AU-BU that my EX .....well,never mind........ anyways, 1859 was always my favorite type and you have a beauty OINK!

  • RayboRaybo Posts: 5,337 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DoughDeo said:


    And we have another 2 cent collector........Yea Dough!

  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,055 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BillJones said:
    It is hard to say, “Yes, I’ll take” in thirty seconds on a coin that sells in the mid 5 figures, but that’s how I was on this one.


    The detail is dead on for the AU-55 grade, and the coin is crusty, but no ugly.

    I've ALWAYS wanted one a those the minute I saw it in the red book when I was a little snot nosed kid. Now I'm a snot nosed old man and I still want the damn thing.

    The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
  • Desert MoonDesert Moon Posts: 5,986 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @kaz said:
    I'm sorry to post a link but I can't get the imaging sharing at collective coin to work (maybe Stack's turned it off?)
    1876-cc Trade Dollar
    https://collectivecoin.com/kaz/all-coins/EUjaa4uNGQvUcw6445XZ

    Here ya go Kaz your trade dollar......... Gorgeous example!

    My online coin store - https://desertmoonnm.com/
  • boyernumismaticsboyernumismatics Posts: 473 ✭✭✭✭

    @Cameonut said:
    I have many, but besides my avatar (bought in a proof set for less than 10 bucks), I knew this was a gem when I saw it in its original cellophane baggie.

    You made out like a BANDIT on that one !!!!

  • boyernumismaticsboyernumismatics Posts: 473 ✭✭✭✭

    Since sold, but this was a pickup at my LCS... Best original CBH I've ever seen.




  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,851 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice stuff in this thread.

  • StuartStuart Posts: 9,793 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wrighty, That’s a Drop-Dead Gorgeous 1868 Proof Seated Liberty Dollar!! <3

    @wrighty said:

    One of my favorite early proofs.


    Stuart

    Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal

    "Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
  • RayboRaybo Posts: 5,337 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @CharlotteDude said:
    Easily this one... based on an auction image alone. While I asked a highly trusted dealer to bid in person on my behalf, it was a done deal the first moment I saw it.

    And this one, which I immediately purchased raw at a Baltimore show @ 10 years ago.

    'dude

    I really like the 1804 and that's it.

  • StuartStuart Posts: 9,793 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 7, 2017 9:23PM

    1811 (Large 8) Capped Bust Half Dollar



    Stuart

    Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal

    "Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
  • AmazonXAmazonX Posts: 680 ✭✭✭✭

    Obverse is prooflike, right?

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  • OnWithTheHuntOnWithTheHunt Posts: 1,262 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @boyernumismatics said:
    Since sold, but this was a pickup at my LCS... Best original CBH I've ever seen.




    Cool pic. Ring lighting? Nice coin too.

    Proud recipient of the coveted "You Suck Award" (9/3/10).
  • 23Pairer23Pairer Posts: 911 ✭✭✭

  • WDPWDP Posts: 517 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I purchased this 1798 B-19, BB-106 Silver Dollar "raw" in a Heritage Auction sale in May 1999. I knew from research that this coin existed and watched for it to come back on the market for around 15 years. I collect the Dollars of 1798 by die marriage, and this is the example of this die marriage that I wanted for my collection. When it came up for auction I knew I had to buy it.

    I stored this coin wrapped in tissue paper in a 2X2 envelope until I sent it in to PCGS for grading in 2016, and then sent it to CAC. It is graded PCGS AU58 (CAC). It pedigrees to the George Hatie Collection.

    Note the auction photo was taken by Heritage Auctions with the coin sealed in a plastic flip!

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    Photo courtesy of Heritage Auctions.

    Here is a link to the coin (auction Lot) in the May 11, 1999 Heritage Auctions sale:

    https://coins.ha.com/itm/early-dollars/silver-and-related-dollars/1798-large-eagle-au-58-b-19-bb-106-a-rare-variety-that-is-characterized-by-the-positioning-of-several-die-lumps-around-th/a/199-5167.s?ic4=ListView-Thumbnail-071515

    W. David Perkins Numismatics - http://www.davidperkinsrarecoins.com/ - 25+ Years ANA, ANS, NLG, NBS, LM JRCS, LSCC, EAC, TAMS, LM CWTS, CSNS, FUN

  • Desert MoonDesert Moon Posts: 5,986 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My online coin store - https://desertmoonnm.com/
  • Danye WestDanye West Posts: 193 ✭✭✭


    I could make a birth year registry set out of pocket change.
  • Moose1913Moose1913 Posts: 402 ✭✭✭

    I pick things up
    I am a collector
    And things, well things
    They tend to accumulate
  • ECHOESECHOES Posts: 2,974 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Couldn't resist, Thanks KK...

    ~HABE FIDUCIAM IN DOMINO III V VI / III XVI~
    POST NUBILA PHOEBUS / AFTER CLOUDS, SUN
    Love for Music / Collector of Dreck
  • CoinZipCoinZip Posts: 3,253 ✭✭✭
    edited October 10, 2017 7:20PM

    Not a coin but definitely coin related and I recently sold it in the NCNA Benefit Auction..... "12 inch bronze plaque that was used as part of the sign for "The Liberty Trust Company," and a bank bag that bears the bank's logo which is the same design."



    Coin Club Benefit auctions ..... View the Lots

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