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Sometimes, for no reason, a coin really sings to you...

RYKRYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
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or at least it does to me. I recently bought this 1904 $10 PCGS OGH MS-61 from CRO. The thing is that I sold it to CRO about 6 weeks earlier and really missed the coin. This was exacerbated by going to a coin show, looking specifically for nice Liberty $10's in OGHs and seeing but one coin, and a nasty one at that. The 1904 $10 is a slightly lower mintage date (they were too busy minting the ubiquitous $20's) and marginally better later date coin, but my example has a razor strike, semi-prooflike appearance, and paucity of marks. The reverse looks like an easy 63. At any rate, I am not letting the coin out of my collection again so don't ask me if I will sell it. image

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In case that coin does not sing to you, I invite you to listen to a track from the iconic Grateful Dead New Year's Eve 1978 Winterland concert, a show I grew up with listening, though my high school cassette tapes had a lot more hiss than this remastered version. Enjoy, and Coinosaurus... imageimage

Sugar Magnolia
My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132

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  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,550 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • stmanstman Posts: 11,352 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The main question I have is....... did you get another hat when you bought the coin back? Heh
    Please... Save The Stories, Just Answer My Questions, And Tell Me How Much!!!!!
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The main question I have is....... did you get another hat when you bought the coin back? Heh >>


    Let's just say that if there were a hat registry, I would almost certainly be #1. This is in part because I have an R8 hat. image
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,532 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If I owned it, I would sing to it. image
    "If it's not fun, it's not worth it." - KeyMan64
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  • pursuitoflibertypursuitofliberty Posts: 7,282 ✭✭✭✭✭
    RYK,

    For a Lib $10 in 61, that IS a nice coin!

    The main question I have is....... did you get another hat when you bought the coin back? Heh

    No the bigger question is, how much did the round trip, therefore earning him a shot for another cap, actually cost him! imageimage



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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,455 ✭✭✭✭✭
    So, what did the round trip cost you?? image

    I told JA that the next major purchase needed to come with an R10 hat. image
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • ranshdowranshdow Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭✭
    As has been said, that's a heck of a coin for a 61.
  • halfcentmanhalfcentman Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭
    When coins sing to me, they sing "Eleventh Earl of Mar" by Genesis!

    This Hard Times Token did the second I bought it:

    Howell Rose Token with fully struck TOKEN. From the Howell Garden Works in NJ (Monmouth County)

    imageimage
  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,779 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Every once in awhile I become, as many others before me, a bit lethargic with coin collecting.
    When I do I simply open up a thread such as this one to again ignite the spark in me.

    peacockcoins

  • CoinRaritiesOnlineCoinRaritiesOnline Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭✭
    In the Coin Dealering community, and with no fractiousness intended, we call this phenomenon the "Reverse Boomerang Effect", and I can say, without any doubt at all, that this is preferable to its opposite brethren.
    John Agre

    Coin Rarities Online
  • SonorandesertratSonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>In the Coin Dealering community, and with no fractiousness intended, we call this phenomenon the "Reverse Boomerang Effect", and I can say, without any doubt at all, that this is preferable to its opposite brethren. >>



    Sounds like you should stock CRO boomerangs for those special clients.image
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  • MICHAELDIXONMICHAELDIXON Posts: 6,572 ✭✭✭✭✭
    When coins start singing to me, it's time to find another hobby! image
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