Stunning Immune Columbia in SB Auction

ambro51 · February 23, 2013 6:24AM

SPECTACULAR!

Icollecteverything · February 23, 2013 6:30AM

Heh, "supreme ugliness". Two words not often seen together. Quite a grading range too, although I would have to agree with the higher grades.

sniocsu · February 23, 2013 6:35AM

Beautiful and rare: what more can you ask for?

MidLifeCrisis · February 23, 2013 7:19AM

It's not a coin for me.

CoinRaritiesOnline · February 23, 2013 7:53AM

Nice color and surface for one of these, probably in the top 5 or 6 of the 20 examples known.

Unknown · February 23, 2013 8:06AM

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Broadstruck · February 23, 2013 8:22AM

Although I can appreciate this... I feel Stunning is a term that varies quite differently in the eyes of each collector.

ricko · February 23, 2013 8:54AM

Not being a specialty of mine, I would question the use of 'stunning', but have been wrong before....

Cheers, RickO

halfhunter · February 23, 2013 8:57AM

Kind of brings this to mind . . .

HH

ambro51 · February 23, 2013 9:27AM

The detail on the obverse dentils is amazing. Interesting to see how low relief the reverse letters are. The die buckling this issue has isn't too bad, even on a light planchet. .....put away young, you wonder if something like this is not a souvineer kept by its maker. Outta my price range for sure.

MidLifeCrisis · February 23, 2013 9:35AM

<< ....put away young, you wonder if something like this is not a souvineer kept by its maker. >>

You should get a job writing lot descriptions for an auction house.

CoinRaritiesOnline · February 23, 2013 9:38AM

<< .....put away young, you wonder if something like this is not a souvineer kept by its maker. >>

I seriously doubt that. There are much, much nicer ones out there.

ambro51 · March 14, 2013 10:42PM

Sold for 20K. Ps CRO... Can you provide links to the "much, much nicer ones out there"??

DrPete · March 14, 2013 10:58PM

As my brother Paul said, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder...ugly is in the face of the beheld."

CaptHenway · March 15, 2013 12:14AM

Nice piece.

astrorat · March 15, 2013 12:17AM

I guess adjectives are relative. Sadly ... I would pass it by in a junk box (not knowing anything about the series). Glad others find joy in the piece.

keyman64 · March 15, 2013 12:34AM

Maybe this is an example of why I don't collect the old stuff?! Much of it I can't afford and some of the stuff that I could afford would end up looking like this! Ugh! That coin is not for me.

RYK · March 15, 2013 1:05AM

I appreciate the history and rarity but not so much the aesthetics.

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johnny9434 · March 15, 2013 5:21AM

<< It's not a coin for me. >>

its not for me either.

Analyst · March 16, 2013 6:13AM

<<Lot 309. 1785 Immune Columbia Piece. Vlack 15-85NY, W-1995. Rarity-5+. George III Obverse. VF-20 (PCGS).>>

I saw it -in hand-. It is more interesting in actuality than it appears to be in online images.

I thought about discussing it. I figured that it would require too much of an explanation in an overall article on the Ted Craige Collection. It would make sense to discuss it in an article devoted to Immune Columbia pieces. Perhaps CRO could shed some more light upon it in this thread?

I did mention the Craige piece in silver in this same auction, which I regard as being much more important than the piece that is the topic of this thread.

<<Lot 308. 1785 Immune Columbia Piece. W-1985. 13 Stars. Silver. Reeded Edge. EF Details--Damage (PCGS).>>

Major Collection of Colonials To Be Auctioned

Auctions in March

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ambro51 · March 17, 2013 3:04AM

Did Eric Newman find there were TWO of the immune Columbia dies?

CoinRaritiesOnline · March 17, 2013 3:31AM

<< I don't know about everyone else but I am very pleased when I see ugly go for big bucks. >>

Well, I'm glad I could please you, though I'm not sure the sale of a rare colonial issue has much influence on the price of Seated Half Dimes.

I will write this up in detail on my site when i list it, since I was the winning bidder in the auction.

I do think my original assessment in this thread was accurate, and I stand by comment that it was not likely saved by the maker.

The finest known example of this issue is undoubtedly the Ford coin which sold in 2004 and which I owned. But that brought $29,900 way back in 2004, and considerably more that that when I sold it last year.

Baley · March 17, 2013 4:11AM

It would take a very sophisticated collector to appreciate the coin at any price;

at $20,000+, the collector would have to be extremely sophisticated-- more so than most of us here on the forum

DAVEatHLRC · March 17, 2013 6:32AM

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<< I don't know about everyone else but I am very pleased when I see ugly go for big bucks. >>

Well, I'm glad I could please you, though I'm not sure the sale of a rare colonial issue has much influence on the price of Seated Half Dimes.

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Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.

I would now pay DOUBLE for every Seated Half Dime now that that colonial coin has sold.

BTW -- congrats on the purchase of that lovely coin John. It is the third finest I have ever laid eyes on.

Stunning Immune Columbia in SB Auction

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