Early Dollar....What a mess!

MGLICKER · January 11, 2014 11:34AM

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lostincoins · January 11, 2014 11:36AM

it's a zombie look out run it wants to eat your brains........

MGLICKER · January 11, 2014 11:37AM

<< it's a zombie look out run it wants to eat your brains........ >>

It already did...I am considering a bid.

123cents · January 11, 2014 11:45AM

Looks about as bad as a AU-50 details coin can look.

MGLICKER · January 11, 2014 11:48AM

<< Looks about as bad as a AU-50 details coin can look.

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Yes, but those denticles!

At least in the undamaged area!

lostincoins · January 11, 2014 12:12PM

well if you collect holders with as many problems as possible on them this is your coin.

MGLICKER · January 11, 2014 12:13PM

Can't find any putty on the thing!

AMRC · January 11, 2014 12:20PM

I actually like the way they made all the problems fit on the insert!

FullStrike · January 11, 2014 12:25PM

I got a Chinese Counterfeit thats gorgeous when compared to that thing.

A big plus is that its not in an ANACS slab.

MGLICKER · January 11, 2014 12:26PM

Closed at $1057 with the vigorish.

lostincoins · January 11, 2014 12:35PM

as always to each their own, was that your bid?

DAM · January 11, 2014 12:42PM

I actually like the way they made all the problems fit on the insert!

Good thing that's all that was wrong with it. There wasn't much room left to list anything else.

bolivarshagnasty · January 11, 2014 12:56PM

Looks like a good candidate for a hobo dollar.

MGLICKER · January 11, 2014 1:00PM

<< as always to each their own, was that your bid? >>

No. Coin was at about $650 with the juice before it hit the live auction. Proxies took it to what was the final realized price.

I would have bid $700 all in, but did not get the chance.

Broadstruck · January 11, 2014 1:03PM

I'd pass on that even if I was shopping for a belt buckle

MGLICKER · January 11, 2014 1:09PM

<< I'd pass on that even if I was shopping for a belt buckle

>>

Would have made a lousy looking buckle.

I have never met an Early Dollar that I would not buy...at the right price.

keyman64 · January 11, 2014 1:42PM

...not for me.

BryceM · January 11, 2014 1:46PM

She went a few too many rounds in the ring.

Nasty. The only useful purpose for that coin would be as a pocket piece. About the time it hit AG, it would be nice enough.

The holder couldn't contain the entire description:

"Plugged, tooled, corroded, polished, run over by dumptruck twice, shot and left for dead, drug through swamp, snakebit, tarred & feathered, used as doorstop, and found between the seats of a wrecked, burned-out 1975 El Camino."

Constantine · January 11, 2014 1:52PM

Ugly or not, it's still dated 1799 which is pretty darn cool.

jmcu12 · January 11, 2014 2:24PM

I had the bid going into the live event. I was going to add it to my holed collection.

The price that it brought, IMO, is crazy money....and I have paid my fair share of crazy money on problem coins.

WildIdea · January 11, 2014 2:31PM

<< Looks like a good candidate for a hobo dollar.

>>

That's funny!

It just reminds me that for every coin there is a collection somewhere that it would probably fit nicely.

CoinZealot · January 11, 2014 2:46PM

Wouldn't be surprised to see this as a "problem free" - possibly even "near gem" on the bay!

Elcontador · January 11, 2014 5:11PM

Yet another numismatic abortion.

ricko · January 12, 2014 2:01AM

Dang that is nasty.... amazing that someone paid that much for it... Yes, it is old, but there are limits ...... correction, I have limits...

Cheers, RickO

BillJones · January 12, 2014 10:33AM

The prices that coins with major problems bring these days truly amazes me.

It is also surprising that such pieces show up so much in major auctions.

MGLICKER · January 12, 2014 2:20PM

<< Dang that is nasty.... amazing that someone paid that much for it... Yes, it is old, but there are limits ...... correction, I have limits...

Cheers, RickO >>

To paraphrase Laura, $1000 is the new $100.

A better one may be "add a digit to buy a widget".

Treashunt · January 13, 2014 10:02PM

would look better if cracked out, and kept in pocket change for a year or two

ambro51 · January 13, 2014 10:55PM

At least it's not AT.

MGLICKER · January 13, 2014 10:56PM

<< would look better if cracked out, and kept in pocket change for a year or two >>

A couple of decades would be more like it.

droopyd · January 14, 2014 1:00AM

Would this constitute a "cull" as described in another thread? I don't think I'd go that far with this one.

Early Dollar....What a mess!

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