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Does anyone know the history of this 1894-S dime after 2005?
cmerlo1
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Just trying to figure out if it still resides in the same collection or if it has traded hands since this Heritage auction. I did not see it in any registry sets:
https://coins.ha.com/itm/proof-barber-dimes/1894-s-10c-pr65-pcgs/a/360-30164.s
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According to a January 2016 auction description of a different coin, the coin above is
in the Simpson Collection, in an NGC PR66 holder.
https://coins.ha.com/itm/a/1231-5317.s
I used:
pcgs.com/auctionprices/details.aspx?r=4805&v=&dv=1894-s&pf=pr&c=702&g=0
Edit to add:
It is shown in Simpson's set on the NGC site, last updated 9/2013.
Exactly what I needed to know. Thank you!
Huh???? If this coin is indeed in the Simpson collection as an unstickered NGC PF66 (formerly PCGS PF65) that's a major deviation from the norm. How many "hot topics" and "market reports" have we read over the past 5-8 years about ensuring all of your coins are solid for the assigned graded, and ideally stickered. As we've been lectured to for years, you don't want a lower end coin or mis-graded one dragging down the rest of your set. It's supposedly a big negative. Seems to me someone may not be walking their own talk.
Not walking their own talk? You ever try to tell a billionaire what to do? He does what he wants
It's a Barber Proof set; all the coins in it are NGC. So internally consistent at least.
Then such an "exception" should be included in some future "hot topics." I can appreciate a top collector doing their own thing. And it's refreshing to see someone not drinking the Koolaid.
Someone listed it for sale on my site for $1.5 million, with partial payment via PayPal and the rest via wire transfer (red flag #1). They photoshopped the 2005 Heritage images onto a cheap 2X2 plastic holder (red flag #2) and said in the description it had been in their grandfather's collection for years (red flag #3). When I confronted them with the images and provenance, they insisted the images they used were different and that they did in fact have the coin. I cancelled both the listing and the seller account. I figured its whereabouts were known and I wanted to be extra sure before I hit the dump button. Thanks again for the info.
The first red flag was this not being consigned at a major national auction sale with tons of advance publicity....or being handled for private treaty by one of the nation's top dealers. Next red flag was the $1.5 MILL ask price which seems way below major rarity (2nd finest) price status.