HA Auction Lot #16731 1918-S 25c PCGS 65 FH Non CAC....
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Sold for $72,000!!! I viewed the sale last week...I must have missed something...
Anyone else view this coin? It was housed in a currently graded generation holder.
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Whaaaaat?
https://coins.ha.com/itm/standing-liberty-quarters/quarters-and-twenty-cents/1918-s-25c-ms65-full-head-pcgs/a/1261-16731.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515
Makes no sense. Technical glitch and it sold for $7,200 maybe?
wow!
BHNC #203
I watched it online live and it was no typo...
Russian spy microchip between the I and B of Liberty.
I cant wait to hear the explanation for this one
Just as good an explanation as any!
That is utter absurdity!!! At least two people with more money than brains..
Yep! At least two people had more money than brains. The bullseye spot at 11k on the obverse would have been enough to chill my "crazy bid" enthusiasm.
I'd rather have 2 1825 quarter eagles in 58+ (GC Coins from a previous thread...) with money left over than this coin at that level...LOL
I asked someone at Heritage and they are just as baffled as we are. One person did speculate that maybe some people thought it was a super late die state 1918/7-S.
cnn, its obvious your days of glory are over....u didn't see it would MS68+FH?? please..
my guess is too hard headed collectors chased it. Heritage does have a guy who I know has been looking for that date for a while. the question is, who the heck chased him? Unless a crack out guy really was using their imagination
the over date scenerio is a possibility too
I can't see the overdate after blowing it up online. The first "1' in the date is always weaker than the second "1". In this coin, that's not the case. Someone has to have one heck of an imagination to see any overdate on the coin. Either that or I really am getting old...
Specialist, a very good grader and a SLQ specialist whom we both know well, had 15k on the coin as a shot upgrade. Having 2 bidders at that level is very unusual to say the least.
What in the hell?! There needs to be a CW article about this. I bet the consignor cannot believe it!
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For a 18-S it's struck incredible well within the central region of both the obverse and reverse.
It also has a Ultimate Full Head.
I assume if a dealer bought this it will be diluted dipped and then sent repeatedly between both grading services to get into a 67 or 67+ FH holder.
cnn or the market for SLQ's are read hot!
OMG RED. oops
First is the HA coin. Second is a genuine 1918/7-S.
I don't see it.
Lance.
What will this result do to the price guide?
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I don't see it and for a fresh slab this already has dip residue turning from not being properly neutralized.
Maybe 2 bidders accidentally set nuclear high maximum bids and battled between one another?
Nothing. It will be thrown away.
Lance.
I've seen better FH's on 18-S SLQ than this one. And the shield rivets aren't complete either. The two bidders were an internet bidder and a phone bidder. I'll be curious to follow this coin if it becomes available on the market again. Either 2 VERY sharp bidders saw something others didn't see, or the underbidder is in a bar celebrating that he was not the buyer.
This is the same auction people were paying 10K for a leather coin purse that once held 1913 Nickels. Sounds like a lot of loose wallets showed up to this one.
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Yes, I tried to bid in a couple of Neumann auctions, and the results for one of the lots that interested me were double the previous all time highs. Pedigrees are worth something for some people, not that much to me. The coin comes first.
Some posts here remind me of the days when the top grade modern coins were selling for very high prices. I warned collectors that these numbers were too high, and the people who were profiting from that attacked me. Then that market melted. We see some of the same thing here. Don't get drawn in buy outlier auction results.
Edited to say I paid way too much for an 1855-D gold dollar in a Heritage auction. I love the coin, but I am buried in it. The price I paid is invalid, at least for now.
A psychiatrist, an opthomalogist and a numismatist walk into a bar........
If there is not something special that we do not see on that coin, then I think it was a testosterone fueled auction....Cheers, RickO
Two people making a mistake with a decimal point? Involving a bunch of tequila?
The irony of those situations is that when the hammer falls, the winner becomes the loser and the loser becomes the winner.
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Definitely not the overdate, and the question remains:
What was the buyer thinking?!
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"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
Another coin error. Just the error was in the price
Best place to buy !
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This items owner is proactively entertaining offers. Heh
Oh, the chatter on the thigh, the knee!
Oh, the humanity.......
Where is my old favorite, the head-slap emoji?