1879-CC GSA $1 Original Offering
MrEureka
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Just bought a GSA 79-CC and was more excited to get the original advertising piece than the coin. Can't say I remember seeing one of these before. How rare are they?
Andy Lustig
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Wow! What a nice piece of GSA ephemera!
Gonna get me a $50 Octagonal someday. Some. Day.
I remember the 82-84CC @ $30 min bid and the mixed dates at $15 but not these. Maybe they were just sent to some mint customers?
Now that is cool!! Is that advertisement small enough to include in the box? I know that's where I would keep it if it fit.
$300 minimum bid? Seems awfully pricey for 1974. Very cool flyer.
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By the time they got my money (returned my check of $405.00) all 4,123 were gone. This amounted to .55% of all the GSA CC dollars in their sale.
A scant few.
bob
That's cool!
These invitation to bids cards are very rare.
The last one I saw several years ago was for around $500. However prices on GSA memorabilia was quite high then.
I am on the road for a few days when I get home I will check my records to see if I wrote down more info about that sale.
The 1879 cards are rare. Average prices for the invitation-to-bid cards have been around $250-300 lately.
A good companion piece to the bid card is the bid card:
The bid card is much scarcer than the invitation-to-bid card but isn't priced as high.
The complete 1879-CC order ensemble including envelopes looks like this:
It would have been nice to get the order form too, but the collector actually used it to buy a coin.
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I should have kept all my return stuff (actually don't remember what was returned). Those sure bring back memories....fun sales and too bad I had a new baby and was broke as heck.
bob
Neat information....I was out of country during this period, so missed the opportunity....I wonder what prices were actually realized in this sale? Is any information available? @RogerB may have some documentation on these sales.....Cheers, RickO
Super cool!
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Agree - super cool!
I have one of the tri-fold mailers with the color image of the miner on it from back then, but I assume those are fairly common.
I was talking to a dealer ~6/7 years ago who claimed he had 6 of the 79CC's in the original GSA holders in his personal holdings, and that he had no intention of selling anytime soon.
I agreed this is a neat memento to keep with the GSA holder. In my case (a common 84-cc), the seller includes a note by the original purchaser of how much he paid for it and on a separate piece of paper I wrote my purchase price and kept both papers with the case.
That is very cool. I wish I had one with my 1879. I have the generic sales brochures, but haven't seen that one.
I have a small stack of the brochures for one of the later sales. They were distributed in banks and post offices as I recall.