An amazing opportunity to kick my collection up a notch!
TwoKopeiki
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I was recently approached by a fellow numismatist about an opportunity to acquire some of his coins and I knew I had to act. His collection is world-class, full of amazing coins that define both quality and beauty. If all goes well, I should have the coins in 5 days, so I decided to do a reveal thread to keep things a bit more interesting and suspenseful around here 
We ended up agreeing on 5 coins. All 5 are amazing and there's no way i can pick any kind of order of preference, so i'm just going to go incrementally from the lowest grade to the highest, revealing one a day until Sunday night.
May 23rd: 1796 8 Reales in PCGS AU58, replacing my existing AU53 example I picked up from John @ CRO in 2012.
May 24th: 1801-FT 8 Reales in PCGS AU58. Over the years I've had a number of 1801-FT/M over-assayers varieties, but surprisingly not a regular FT. There's one graded higher at MS62 at PCGS, but nowhere near the eye-appeal of this piece.
May 25th: Nothing to say other than this is the best looking 1791 I have ever encountered. PCGS MS63 and "all there"
May 26th: Common date, very uncommon quality - 1810-HJ in MS63.
May 27th: Last but not least - 1805 8 Reales in MS64. Beautiful example of the Narow Date minor variety with nice clean fields. The strike weakness is the only minor downside to an otherwise amazing coin. Not to mention it's my first MS64 in this series ever.
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nice! I wish I had the chance to do this with Thai coins but noone here collects thai coins! hmph!
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oh this is a neat idea
This will be fun and thanks for sharing with us! Congrats
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
This is going to be awesome. What a wonderful opportunity taken to grab five coins you liked or needed all at once from a world class collection. Good job!!
My eyes hurt.
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Such a tease....
Very nice, congrats !!!
Gotta act when the opportunity arises
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8 reales madness!
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I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
Today's coin has been unscrambled in the original post.
8 Reales Madness Collection
Awesome coins!!!
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So far they look great.
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May 25th coin is up!
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Cool and Congrats
Steve
Very very nice.
Great coins! I too have benefited by supping on some of the crumbs that occasionally cascadeth from @TwoKopeiki 's table.
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George
They just keep getting better.
May 26th is unscrambled. It's a lovely 1810-HJ in 63
8 Reales Madness Collection
Each one of these is a work of art. So many new “babies” in your life
Congrats Roman - very nice selection!
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Madness !!
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
The last coin is up!
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Fantastic coins all!
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
@TwoKopeiki these are amazing. And I cannot but congratulate you on the great idea on how to present them! Nice, very nice. You made me check every day to see the coin of the day...
They are all extremely eye appealing. Nice job.
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Thanks, everyone - i think i might be done for the rest of the year now
8 Reales Madness Collection
Wow. those are five awesome coins. If you could only buy 5 coins for the year you could do worse. The hard part was picking the top of the five. Think I ended with the 1791, but it took sometime.