My very first piece of southern gold!!!

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• bolivarshagnasty Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 10:38AM

  I like it! Congrats!

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• asheland Posts: 23,735 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 10:49AM

  Thank you!

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• Gazes Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 10:49AM

  very nice---I especially like the reverse. Congrats

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• Yorkshireman Posts: 4,584 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 10:53AM

  Nice original piece!

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• Boosibri Posts: 12,398 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 10:55AM

  Careful, southern gold is a slippery and expensive slope to fall down.

  Congrats

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• tommy44 Posts: 2,319 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 10:56AM

  Southern gold is always good. This one looks especially nice for the assigned grade. I like it a lot.

  it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide

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• jonruns Posts: 1,197 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 11:04AM

  The stories it could tell...

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• pocketpiececommems Posts: 6,050 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 11:27AM

  I like it too. I have no Southern gold. Some day I would like to acquire an AG03 example.

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• carabonnair Posts: 1,445 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 11:36AM

  What's not to like? Are you going to get one from every mint?

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• Smudge Posts: 9,817 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 11:45AM

  I love any Southern gold. Now you gotta have a Charlotte piece. The values seem to hold up well no matter what. Addictive stuff. That one has some nice original patina.

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• divecchia Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 12:02PM

  It's gold, what's not to like.

  Congrats on your first Southern gold piece.

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• asheland Posts: 23,735 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 12:07PM

  @carabonnair said:
  What's not to like? Are you going to get one from every mint?

  I would love that, perhaps in time! I'm near where the Bechtlers were and about two hours from Charlotte. I'd love examples from each. I'm cool with low grade, I just want original straight graded examples. The reverse under "America" show some significant scratches, I'm ok with them, but I'd bet they are the absolute limit allowed for being "problem free"
  What do you guys think?

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• Desert Moon Posts: 5,989 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 12:09PM

  A lot of history in that thar piece!

  Best, SH

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• Smudge Posts: 9,817 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 12:11PM

  You are also gonna need a pre Civil War New Orleans piece and some Confederate bills to photograph them on.

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• carabonnair Posts: 1,445 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 12:11PM

  I think the scratches are "allowed for the grade" in VG. Probably the only thing keeping it from a VG10 or F12.

  Gawain
  
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• asheland Posts: 23,735 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 12:16PM

  Here’s the scratches. They don’t always show. Only certain angles but they are moderately deep:
  This is a picture at their worst:
  

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• Treashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 12:20PM edited November 13, 2018 12:20PM

  How the heck did that clean grade?

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• tommy44 Posts: 2,319 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 12:23PM

  @carabonnair said:
  What's not to like? Are you going to get one from every mint?

  It's the only denomination made at all the mints, even including West Point in you want to toss a modern commemorative in the mix.

  it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide

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• cheezhed Posts: 5,999 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 12:23PM

  I love it.

  Many happy BST transactions

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• Swampboy Posts: 13,105 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 12:26PM

  @cheezhed said:
  I love it.

  Agree

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• asheland Posts: 23,735 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 12:30PM

  That picture is the very worst angle making the light show them. Normal, causal viewing without a loupe, you can miss them:

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• asheland Posts: 23,735 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 12:32PM

  You see?
  
  

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• asheland Posts: 23,735 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 12:32PM

  They don’t bother me, but I’m curious about opinions, good or bad...

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• coinsarefun Posts: 21,757 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 12:38PM

  I like it very much!!

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• OldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 12:40PM

  Congrats, its been around long enough where it bound to get a scrape or scratch or two, They don't bother me, probably scratched by some river boat gambler on the Mississippi back in 18 snickerty 2 to see if it was real gold I LIKE IT

  Steve

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• tommy44 Posts: 2,319 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 12:41PM

  I still like it a lot.

  it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide

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• asheland Posts: 23,735 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 12:45PM

  @OldEastside said:
  Congrats, its been around long enough where it bound to get a scrape or scratch or two, They don't bother me, probably scratched by some river boat gambler on the Mississippi back in 18 snickerty 2 to see if it was real gold I LIKE IT

  Steve

  That's probably a lot of the reason that they don't bother me, is the story they could tell! They are old scratches after all.

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• jwitten Posts: 5,232 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 12:46PM

  Love it!

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• johnny9434 Posts: 29,203 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 12:52PM

  i like it. its got a tale all of its own in that grade. cooool pick up

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• asheland Posts: 23,735 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 12:56PM

  Thanks everybody!

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• Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2018 10:59PM

  I like it, congratulations !!!

  Timbuk3

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• Hemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 14, 2018 5:42AM

  Gold is always good. Love gold!

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• TwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,574 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 14, 2018 6:13AM

  If one doesn't start humbly, he typically ends that way.

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• Wahoo554 Posts: 1,145 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 14, 2018 6:39AM

  I love circulated gold. Imagine how many transactions it was involved in and how many different hands it had to pass through in order to obtain that level of wear. It would be a fun experiment to purchase a common/problem uncirculated half eagle at melt and track how many times you would have to handle it in a consistent manner in order to bring it down to XF to VF and so on (notwithstanding all the other variables that could contribute to wear in commerce).

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 14, 2018 7:42AM

  Very nice old gold... The big 'D' on the reverse makes it special...Southern gold can be addicting... So we will look forward to your next piece with a C or an O... Cheers, RickO

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• asheland Posts: 23,735 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 14, 2018 10:20AM

  @ricko said:
  Very nice old gold... The big 'D' on the reverse makes it special...Southern gold can be addicting... So we will look forward to your next piece with a C or an O... Cheers, RickO

  I've wanted an O, C and Bechtler too. One of these days perhaps...

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• Paradisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 14, 2018 10:53AM

  Southern Belle .... how beautiful in her own right Congrats!

  I couldn't wait so see the upcoming O, C and Bechtler too

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• REALGATOR Posts: 2,642 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 14, 2018 10:59AM

  Graders will forgive light flaws such as scratches in the lower grades.

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• Kkathyl Posts: 3,762 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 14, 2018 11:30AM

  Very nice. The one dent above arrows looks like a southern tooth check. Yup its gold!

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• Namvet69 Posts: 9,253 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 14, 2018 1:37PM

  Congrats! A lot of strong detail in that well used gold piece. Looks good in that holder too. Peace Roy

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• Cameonut Posts: 7,379 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 14, 2018 3:13PM

  Very nice southern gold. Love it.
  Now that I'm living in NC, I am partial to the Charlotte pieces, but the other branch mints are OK too.

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• CharlotteDude Posts: 3,165 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 14, 2018 7:45PM

  Cool piece of history there.

  Got Crust....y gold?

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• shinywhite Posts: 346 ✭✭✭

  November 14, 2018 7:49PM

  Very nice piece.

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• kaz Posts: 9,265 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 14, 2018 7:49PM

  Very nice! both my C and D mint pieces are in Vf grades. I like to think how they moved around in the backcountry and sealed many a deal.

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• Smudge Posts: 9,817 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 14, 2018 7:54PM

  If anyone doubts the allure of Southern gold, note how much attention an 08 gets.

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• Walkerfan Posts: 9,734 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 14, 2018 8:31PM

  looks nice to me, especially for the grade.

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• asheland Posts: 23,735 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 15, 2018 11:57AM

  @Namvet69 said:
  Congrats! A lot of strong detail in that well used gold piece. Looks good in that holder too. Peace Roy

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• asheland Posts: 23,735 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 15, 2018 11:58AM

  @BillJones Do you have this date? I'd love to see it if so... Or one close to it, 1843.45, etc...

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• BillJones Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 15, 2018 2:05PM

  @asheland said:
  @BillJones Do you have this date? I'd love to see it if so... Or one close to it, 1843.45, etc...

  No, I don't have an 1844-D half eagle. I really only have a type set of southern gold plus many of the gold dollars and few other coins. Here are the closest dates I have to what you have.

  1839-D

  
  

  1853-D - This is the most common Dahlonega $5 gold date.

  
  

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• lkenefic Posts: 8,559 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 15, 2018 3:04PM

  I like it. That's a well used piece that bought a bunch of supplies! If she could only speak!!

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