1912-D and 1912-S Liberty Nickels from an old collection
rhedden
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I'm updating some photos of coins in my collection, and I thought I would post these two Liberty nickels that I bought out of an old collection that was put together in the 1930s to about 1960. The coins were submitted to PCGS in 1989; the 1912-s graded MS63, and the 1912-D graded MS65. The 1912-D was regraded in 2006 or so when I bought the coin from the previous owner, and it came back MS65 again. The 1912-S still resides in the 1989 OGH. Neither one has been sent to CAC because I do not have submission privileges. I guess there is no point to my post whatsoever, but your thoughts are still appreciated.
Edited to add some photos with different camera/lighting. Neither photo set is very good, but I don't have a DSLR or a macro lens, so I'll have to be satisfied with these.
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Nice pair of nickels!
Have you examined the spots on the 12-S?
Might just be my monitor but the top spot looks slightly green.
The 1912-s could be sent for spot review. Some of the nickels in this set had small green spots that were removed by PCGS when I sent them back. However, I will lose the 1989 OGH if I pursue that avenue, and PCGS may not be able to do anything about the spots. I think it's still a MS63 with the spots.
The point to your post is those coins are Sweet!
** I bought out of an old collection that was put together in the 1930s to about 1960. **
When the story line has a statement like this, you don't need any other points to your post....thanks for sharing with us.
Not sure what is going on with the reverse of the 12 S. I've seen one in MS 66 with one spot like the one on your coin. If it is very flashy, it might be an MS 64, but you'd lose your OGH, so I'd probably leave it alone. The obverse surfaces are very clean for an MS 63.
I'd leave the 12 D alone, though I have seen less attractive coins in new MS 66 holders. Thanks for sharing.
"Seu cabra da peste,
"Sou Mangueira......."
Nice coins.
Notice how soft the detail is on the face on the 12-S? This is typical of the issue, and I have no good explanation why.
Gorgeous
Those are nice coins. I have thought about getting the 1912-S and D nickels because they marked the introduction of the five cent coinage to the branch mint system. They are the counterparts to the 1908-S Indian Cent which is a historic mintage in its own right.
Assume you mean nickel five cent coinage to the branch mints
Those are very nice nickels.... I assume you do not want to lose the OGH due to the sales potential... other than that, I would have the spots checked... they could get worse... (not saying they will).... Cheers, RickO
I found some old photos of the 1912-S from 2009 on my computer, and I'm happy to report that the spots haven't changed a bit. Also, there are not any new spots. So I think the right move is to leave that one in the OGH. If they had increased in size even a little bit, I'd send it to PCGS for conservation. I think 8 years in between photos is long enough to say they're stable.
I wish I could say the same for some of the red copper I have. I looked through some of my Lincoln wheat cents from the 1930s-1950s last week, and several have developed horrible carbon spots in their cardboard 2x2s over the past 7-8 years. Thankfully, these are mostly $1 to $5 coins that have turned into 10 cent coins, so there isn't much in the way of financial loss.
The old collection I bought had been stored in a safe deposit box since 1986, when the original collector passed away, and my friend (a jewelry dealer) purchased the estate. I was in Junior High at the time, so I wasn't exactly a player in the sale. I'll never forget the blazing red (raw) 1851 large cent I found in there when I started going through the coins with him in 2002. My friend's records indicated a purchase price in excess of $3,000, and they had graded it MS67 RD. When we opened the paper envelope, it had a single carbon spot on it that was the size of a pencil eraser!
After much moaning and groaning, I paid him $300 for it and promptly sold it for half of that amount, only because I was buying out the entire collection and got a good deal on the rest. If only that coin had been slabbed by PCGS in 1989 with the other high grade coins in the collection, as he should have done, perhaps that spot would not have been there.
OMG - sounds like it was a moose of a large cent!
I wonder how it was stored all those decades that kept it blazing red, only to develop the spot after 1989?
"Whoa, what a blazer!!!!" (inadvertently spitting on coin).