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BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Tied for finest, ex. Milas...

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Likely the finest from a quality perspective if you exclude the processed and nasty N61 which exists (which I do!)

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Latin American Collection

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  • TopographicOceansTopographicOceans Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭✭
    It doesn't have to be mine, right?

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That 1842 is a real beauty....Cheers, RickO
  • boiler78boiler78 Posts: 3,081 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    hey Boiler, School Girl, please................even if it isn't the finest known!!image
  • boiler78boiler78 Posts: 3,081 ✭✭✭✭✭
    keets- we will have to wait for ED62 for that oneimage
  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,611 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have a few of the "Finest Known"...according to PCGS;



    1869 3CN DDR FS-801 PCGS MS64+ CAC



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    1872-S MM Below MPD FS-302 H10C CAC



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    1892-P 10C RPD FS-302 PCGS MS64 CAC



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    1892-O Clashed Dies FS-901 25C MS64 CAC



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    1892-O DDO FS-101 (007.8) 25C MS64 CAC



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    1929-S Obv Die Clash FS-401 25C MS66+ CAC



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  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,209 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    1849 MS67. The finest no motto seated dollar. Ex: Fairfield
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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,621 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice is not nice enough to describe gorgeous.... but that's what finest known is.

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  • Ed62Ed62 Posts: 857 ✭✭
    This used to be so easy.
    Ed
  • ElmerFusterpuckElmerFusterpuck Posts: 4,801 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes it's darkside, but it's the finest known for this date, PCGS MS-66 RD. Bought it raw when I visited London in 2013.



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  • Wabbit2313Wabbit2313 Posts: 7,268 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Realone: Finest known grade with CAC is enough for me to call it as such. Some junk in the NGC holders after the fatty's I would agree.

    However, since it is all we have to go on, they can still be called finest known and the auctions do call them as such.
  • Wabbit2313Wabbit2313 Posts: 7,268 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That 1849 dollar is amazing! I see CAC likes it. Yes, it is the finest known and deserves it!
  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,767 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: ElmerFusterpuck
    Yes it's darkside, but it's the finest known for this date, PCGS MS-66 RD. Bought it raw when I visited London in 2013.

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  • coinlieutenantcoinlieutenant Posts: 9,320 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This is going to be a fun thread....

    One Darkside....one U.S. from me.

    1916 PCGS MS67. Finest known for the type (likely) and the date (definitely)

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    1872 PCGS MS66. I think finest for the date and better than the Jung 1872, also in PCGS MS66

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  • dcarrdcarr Posts: 9,124 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Boyd Park Lesher with serial number, MS63:
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    While there is one of these graded MS64BN, I believe this one graded MS63+BN is actually the finest:
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    Pedley Ryan HK-828, MS66:
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    Moonlight Mint
  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,308 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This $5.00 Piece of Campbell's Creek Coal Co. Scrip is not only the finest piece known....it's the ONLY one known.

    I traded 20 raw common morgan dollars for it several years ago, and would make that trade again all day long.

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  • DCWDCW Posts: 7,628 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Love that coal company scrip, Dave!
    Here is a favorite of mine, the finest known example of a "Good for a Scent" civil war token. Just amazingly well preserved, NGC MS66+ and nearly full red. Once owned by the great Steve Tanenbaum:
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  • BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I love the 5 Franc CL!

    Latin American Collection

  • boiler78boiler78 Posts: 3,081 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Finest of two 1868 presentation setsimage
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Your collection of Colorado silver bullion SCDs is really, really enviable, DCARR. Love those pieces.

    Finest of the two known 1932 proof 10 zlotych pieces:

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  • coinlieutenantcoinlieutenant Posts: 9,320 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mark,

    Sick.

    John

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  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,949 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • EagleguyEagleguy Posts: 2,264 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: boiler78

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    Finest of two 1868 presentation setsimage




    WOW! That is so cool!
    JH

    Proof Buffalo Registry Set
    Capped Bust Quarters Registry Set
    Proof Walking Liberty Halves Registry Set
  • coinlieutenantcoinlieutenant Posts: 9,320 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My poor man's answer to TDN and his fancy schmancy finest known 1849. image
    PCGS MS66. Finest known for the date and perhaps the type although there is an 1851 graded in 67 that I would love to get my hands on!

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    And...my poor man's answer to Boiler. This little jewel was cherry picked from a five piece presentation set of 1850 coinage in a very similar felt lined box like Marks. PCGS MS68!!

    And...I'm spent. image

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  • AblinkyAblinky Posts: 628 ✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: Eagleguy

    Originally posted by: boiler78

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    Finest of two 1868 presentation setsimage




    WOW! That is so cool!




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  • YorkshiremanYorkshireman Posts: 4,585 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: TopographicOceans

    It doesn't have to be mine, right?



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    I love it!!
    Yorkshireman,Obsessed collector of round, metallic pieces of history.Hunting for Latin American colonial portraits plus cool US & British coins.
  • BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭✭
    John, you are making me want to collect Swiss. I cannot start another set!

    Latin American Collection

  • coinlieutenantcoinlieutenant Posts: 9,320 ✭✭✭✭✭
    John, you are making me want to collect Swiss. I cannot start another set!


    Swiss and French are very very tempting. Only coins in the world that rival that of American coinage. Why not try French type? Sower, Hercules, Rooster and some of the centimes are AMAZING.

    I forgot that I had this finest known, or at least tied.

    PCGS MS67 OGH.

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  • boiler78boiler78 Posts: 3,081 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hopefully ED62 won't mind....... Here is his Schoolgirl Dollar which also happens to be my personal favorite pattern coin of alltime. I've been trying to buy it from him from the moment I first saw it........ Ed if your listening..........image



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    The image doesn't do the coin justice but you can get a general idea from it. There is no trace of haze in the fields and it is truly spectacular!!
  • Wabbit2313Wabbit2313 Posts: 7,268 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Boiler78. That is really cool! Those are aluminum proofs?

  • yosclimberyosclimber Posts: 5,061 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow, ED62's schoolgirl is very dramatic; and we know the photo is limited in what it can show.
    Thanks for sharing the amazing coins.
  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,856 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How about among the finest graded?

    Seems finest known is too broad

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  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,209 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,842 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    This 1838-D half eagle is tied for the finest known. Doug Winter likes it better than the other one that is graded MS-63.

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    This 1800 Bolender 20 Bust Dollar is also tied for the finest known for the variety, but I've seen the other one, and it's been dipped. So I prefer this one.

    Of course as the late Roger Cohen to me years ago, "Ownership adds 5 points to the grade."image
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  • boiler78boiler78 Posts: 3,081 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • NicNic Posts: 3,415 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: coinlieutenant

    John, you are making me want to collect Swiss. I cannot start another set!




    Swiss and French are very very tempting. Only coins in the world that rival that of American coinage. Why not try French type? Sower, Hercules, Rooster and some of the centimes are AMAZING.



    I forgot that I had this finest known, or at least tied.



    PCGS MS67 OGH.



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    That coin is sweet John. Post it again next Friday!



    My 1866 Philly Mint Set

  • BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That coin is sweet John. Post it again next Friday!




    I don't think you can do this post every Friday lest the same coins are posted again and again (which I guess might not be a bad thing)!

    Latin American Collection

  • david3142david3142 Posts: 3,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not that you've never posted that 1842 half eagle before. image
  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,209 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Early Dollar Set
  • coinlieutenantcoinlieutenant Posts: 9,320 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Im still drooling over the Schoolgirl Pattern. What a coin.

    I really only NEED two patterns....a schoolgirl and a washlady. On my long term wantlist...

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  • coinlieutenantcoinlieutenant Posts: 9,320 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Boiler...want to post the washlady while you are at it?

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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,856 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Among the finest graded

    Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.

  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,856 ✭✭✭✭✭
    finest graded by our Hostimage

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  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,863 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There are some phenomenal coins in this thread. The 1872 Seated Half would make me smile each time I looked at it.



    I enjoy collecting classic coins in high grades but I don't have any top-pops, even in my primary set of Peace Dollars. They have a pesky habit of being worth multiples of the next lower grade, and lesser coins have a pesky habit of being promoted upward over time. To this point it has always seemed reasonable to put those collecting dollars elsewhere. Designated grades aside, there are a few in my collection that are finest known by my own assessment (even a higher graded coin wouldn't be "better".) In more modern issues, I have several that are tied for first with fairly large pops, but they can't really compete here.
  • cardinalcardinal Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,863 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Oh good golly!
  • gonzergonzer Posts: 3,053 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This post is why God invented this forum. Truly outstanding coins!!!
  • JJSingletonJJSingleton Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Joseph J. Singleton - First Superintendent of the U.S. Branch Mint in Dahlonega Georgia

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