SCD HK-427: Always wanted one, ended up with two!

Outhaul

I have always liked the circs in this one.

This one is EF-45 ANACS Yellow Holder...

This one is raw...

Cheers

Bob

Zoins

Great examples Bob! Looks like lots of red on the raw one.

I'm very fond of this design and also circulated So-Called Dollars. I've actually been thinking of starting a low-ball / circulated So-Called Dollar collection.

Outhaul

@Zoins said:
Great examples Bob! Looks like lots of red on the raw one.

I'm very fond of this design and also circulated So-Called Dollars. I've actually been thinking of starting a low-ball / circulated So-Called Dollar collection.

Huge luster on the raw one. Some rub on Uncle Sam’s trousers and the bow of the ship, but otherwise brilliant.

Treashunt

nice one, I really like it

Insider2

Nice, now trade off the corroded one.

keets

hey Bob, try to find a BU with nice tone like the top one. and a question --- are you focusing on the one Exposition or will you be buying all sorts of SC$'s in the future??

coinsarefun

The raw, red/brown has luster going on.......love it!
Red/brown is my favorite

Timbuk3

Sweet !!!

Outhaul

@keets said:
hey Bob, try to find a BU with nice tone like the top one. and a question --- are you focusing on the one Exposition or will you be buying all sorts of SC$'s in the future??

Al,

I'm looking! As for focus, well, I'm buying what appeals to me and trying not to go overboard like I did with the HK-398. Somehow or other I ended up with six of those.

With the two posted here, I had already bid on the raw one when BAM! The EF showed up. And I thought, well, hey, I like that one too!

I have to regain control and focus.

Cheers

Bob

ricko

Nice SCD's Bob.... I have not collected SCD's... but attractive pieces with significant history are interesting. I have often wondered about the conditions endured while creating the canal...Accounts I have read told some really gruesome stories. Cheers, RickO

oih82w8

The rim ding on the top one, would be kinda bothersome...if the second one did not grade problem-free...not saying that it be a details coin. Cool looking design!

Outhaul

@ricko said:
Nice SCD's Bob.... I have not collected SCD's... but attractive pieces with significant history are interesting. I have often wondered about the conditions endured while creating the canal...Accounts I have read told some really gruesome stories. Cheers, RickO

Rick,

As I understand it, if you were a skilled machine operator you did very well and your health and well-being were looked after. You were difficult to replace. Ordinary ditch-diggers were regarded as expendable and suffered the consequences of disease and industrial injuries. It did get pretty nasty.

Cheers

Bob

northcoin

Thanks for posting. For the story of both the California Exposition in San Diego and the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco head over to my thread linked below which contains information and photos on the two competing and simultaneously held expositions there in California commemorating the completion of the Panama Canal in 1915.

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/comment/11947287#Comment_11947287

Outhaul

@northcoin said:
Thanks for posting. For the story of both the California Exposition in San Diego and the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco head over to my thread linked below which contains information and photos on the two competing and simultaneously held expositions there in California commemorating the completion of the Panama Canal in 1915.

Thanks!

northcoin

@northcoin said:
Thanks for posting. For the story of both the California Exposition in San Diego and the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco head over to my thread linked below which contains information and photos on the two competing and simultaneously held expositions there in California commemorating the completion of the Panama Canal in 1915.

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/comment/11947287#Comment_11947287

Link added:

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/comment/11947287#Comment_11947287

ricko

@Outhaul ....Yes... I agree Bob...I read accounts of the time and got the same impression. Cheers, RickO

BuffaloIronTail

@Outhaul said:

@Zoins said:
Great examples Bob! Looks like lots of red on the raw one.

I'm very fond of this design and also circulated So-Called Dollars. I've actually been thinking of starting a low-ball / circulated So-Called Dollar collection.

Huge luster on the raw one. Some rub on Uncle Sam’s trousers and the bow of the ship, but otherwise brilliant.

The rub gives the coin a certain "character". I like stuff like that.

Pete

Paradisefound

I like both of them...just keep them or maybe you'll find one in between for threesome