November Coin Club and some neat finds
StrikeOutXXX
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My coin club is down to about 20 folks that show up each month, 3 of us setup as dealers in the back, and we go through about 80 auction lots of member submitted coins. I usually cross off about 2/3 of them during viewing due to damage, cleaning, etc. Wishful thinking to see many BU, let alone UNC coins - most use coin club to get rid of their AG-VG stuff, so it's often slim pickings - but similar to the fishing saying - even the worst coin club meeting is better than the best day at work. Pushing 50, I'm still the youngest one there, and sadly we don't seem to be picking up many new members. The bulk are over 75, with maybe 3-4 under 60.
I won some lower grade GB Crowns (1819 & 1935), bought a few Fine type coins for the case (typically mercy bids to help the club sell some of the stuff), and a nice BU 1903 Liberty Nickel. Won 3 raffle prizes on my $5 of ticket purchase (BU '24 Peace, G 1864 CN Indian, and a BU '56 Washington Qtr) so can't complain.
If you know me at all by now, you know I like the odd stuff and varieties, and this month at least scored me a CPG variety.
I heard the chuckles when I bid and won this - think everyone just wrote it off for being too dark and crappy:
And... for the most part, they would be right. Hard to see in my pics, but do you see it?
Anyhow - here is the mintmark:
1901-O 10C O/Horiz O FS-501 (FS-010)
http://www.pcgscoinfacts.com/Coin/Detail/145523
Probably grade about F15 - PCGS calls that worth $155, which may be close to reality with the last VF20 selling for $198 about a year ago on Great Collections.
Next was more a - hey, I don't have a "Mortar Set" '47, so why not (came in a page of coins for $1 lol). This phenomenon happened mostly in the 1940's in Canada. They were chrome-plating their dies to try to get extra life out of them, but the results were the plating often had problems creating this effect on the reverse (Obverse is nothing to write home about)
This one I grabbed simply because during viewing I wrote - Strange Date on my sheet. That plus it went for $2.00. Looked it up since last night for any variety I couldn't remember off the top of my head at the meeting, and think this one is simply a case of wear and die deterioration. The date just looked taller and skinnier than it should be.
Coinfacts has 3 photos online, they all look the same, below is one example - I guess I can see how it seemed "Off" to me during viewing:
Lastly comes my "Wishful Thinking" purchases:
1962D Jefferson - Nice BU in hand despite my cruddy point-and-shoot camera shots. Simply wrote - Chance FS on my sheet, but think it will fall just short - thoughts from the FS folks?
1974 Jefferson - I wrote FS during viewing next to this one, also a nice BU with some subtle golden toning starting, and think this one should FS:
So.... that's it for this month. Coin Club is still fun for me, and I try to make the best of it as who knows how much longer we all have together there.
"You Suck Award" - February, 2015
Discoverer of 1919 Mercury Dime DDO - FS-101
Comments
Nice report and a good pickup on that O dime....Cheers, RickO
I have only cherrypicked 1 1901-O/horz O and it graded PCGS40. I found it on a well known dealers site. I already had a PCGS58 so I sold it. I look at all 1901-O's.
The 1915 and 1916 dates on Barber Dimes are really funky looking. It's like they just started using completely different looking styles of numbers in 1915.
Fun stuff and nice report.
"If I say something in the woods and my wife isn't there to hear it.....am I still wrong?"
My Washington Quarter Registry set...in progress
I'm not even close to memorizing the CPG, but have an eye for finding anything out of the ordinary, I wasn't aware of the O/Horiz-O, actually told myself it looked like an O over D at viewing, so put a * next to it and got it. Many of my picks I find the exact variety after I get it.
Anyone have an opinion on the FS Jefferson's?
"You Suck Award" - February, 2015
Discoverer of 1919 Mercury Dime DDO - FS-101
@StrikeOutXXX Thank you for the report.
Great stuff! I also love that when people are looking for full steps and post pics the letters "N T I C E" are shown. Coincidence?
Sounds like a good event! Nice report.