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NEWP Elgin... what do you think?

Bob13Bob13 Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited August 3, 2018 9:22PM in U.S. Coin Forum

I've had trouble finding one of these that I thought looked exciting. Got this from Mike Printz @FinallyHere HJB. He sold a pretty nice commem set - not too high grade but with sweet eye appeal - in I think 6 seconds flat, and this was one of those pieces.

Share your Elgin, or if anyone got another coin from this set.

Pics by Mike. Thanks!


My current "Box of 20"

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  • rainbowroosierainbowroosie Posts: 4,875 ✭✭✭✭

    Attractive 66

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  • CoinCrazyPACoinCrazyPA Posts: 2,899 ✭✭✭✭

    @rainbowroosie said:
    Attractive 66

    +1

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  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Really nice. Congrats! Great seller

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  • BGBG Posts: 1,762 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Luv it!

    1936 Mintage of 20,015 - 15 examples for assay, 5,000 returned for melting. Designed and modeled by Trygve A. Rovelstad and distributed by the Elgin Centennial Monumental Committee, through L.W. Hoffecker of El Paso, Texas, at $1.50 each.

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I looked for one of those (in the OP) years ago at coin shows in Seattle... saw a couple, but none that I liked.... I should look around again, I like the reverse design. Cheers, RickO

  • CommemDudeCommemDude Posts: 2,344 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like your coin's toning....hard to find these with vivid colors

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  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,824 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That is a keeper. Love bullseye toning.

  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congrats... It's a tough issue color wise as others have stated. It's even worse when atop toning your strike continuous. Thanks to the internet I have seen a few EDS with a well struck baby Virginia Dare, but then something else on the coin surface wise was a detraction.

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  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like it.

  • EagleguyEagleguy Posts: 2,264 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Mike knows his commemoratives. Nice coin!

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,292 ✭✭✭✭✭

    nice commem. i like :)

  • CommemKingCommemKing Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Love it. If I would have seen in it would have been mine.

  • Bob13Bob13 Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks all.

    @Broadstruck - is that Virginia Dare on the Elgin, too? Not just on the Roanoke? How many other people were on more than 1 commen?

    @BG - is that Vermont from the same collection?

    My current "Box of 20"

  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Suhweeeet

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  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,824 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 4, 2018 7:46PM

    @Bob13 said:
    Thanks all.

    @Broadstruck - is that Virginia Dare on the Elgin, too? Not just on the Roanoke? How many other people were on more than 1 commen?

    @BG - is that Vermont from the same collection?

    Robert E. Lee. Don't think that is Virginia Dare in Elgin.

  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 5, 2018 8:02AM

    @Bob13 said:
    Thanks all.

    @Broadstruck - is that Virginia Dare on the Elgin, too? Not just on the Roanoke? How many other people were on more than 1 commen?

    Ha... No that just shows my brain doesn't function that early prior to 2 cups of coffee "SMACK" :dizzy:

    It's just a pioneer woman holding a baby on the Elgin.

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  • BGBG Posts: 1,762 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Bob13 said:
    Thanks all.

    @Broadstruck - is that Virginia Dare on the Elgin, too? Not just on the Roanoke? How many other people were on more than 1 commen?

    @BG - is that Vermont from the same collection?

    I do not believe it is.

  • BGBG Posts: 1,762 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 5, 2018 9:00AM

    Design:

    Obverse: A bearded male head, with fur cap. Above, the word, in widely-spaced Roman letters: PIONEER Below, the commemorative dates: 1673 – 1936 At left and right of head, in small Gothic letters: IN GOD WE TRUST In field, below beard, in relief, the artist’s initials in monogram: TR.

    Reverse: Group of five pioneers. At left, a man with gun held horizontally. At right, woman with child in arms, and a standing boy holding stick. In background, a young man. (The head shown upon the obverse is taken from the figure at the left of the group.) Above group, in faint Gothic letters widely spaced: LIBERTY Paralleled above, around outer border, in larger Roman letters: UNITED – STATES – OF – AMERICA At left, below leveled gun, in small Gothic letters: PIONEER / MEMORIAL At right, beside upright stick, in similar type: ELGIN / ILLINOIS In exergue, in large Roman letters: HALF – DOLLAR and paralleled above in smaller Gothic letters: E – PLURIBUS – UNUM.

  • mommam17mommam17 Posts: 971 ✭✭✭

    Great coin, Congrats. Love the color!

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,771 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice!

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  • JJSingletonJJSingleton Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The Elgin is a truly uninspired design. But your example is quite appealing. Mike is a go to guy for pleasing Commems.

    Here is one I added to my set many years ago. Your post made me go find it as it has been a long time since I have taken a look.

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  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 9,270 ✭✭✭✭✭

    New to me, something different to look for. Thanks. Peace Roy

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  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,755 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sweet! I like the toning and the luster.

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