IHC found at Santa Clara
Lakesammman
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Found this beauty at a dealer who looked like he specialized in silver spoons, political buttons and Christamas 1 oz silver "rounds". What the coin was doing there is a mystery - sure made it easy to spot. I rescued it ASAP...not much else there in the way of beautiful IHC's....fortunately he didn't know how to properly price IHC's
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I also had a great IHC find last week. Found a PCGS 1906 MS66RD in David Lawrence's inventory. A couple of small specksized planchet defects on the obverse and a small toning spot on the reverse ribbon are the only minor problems I could find. It was also mispriced at least as far as I could tell from comparing recent auction prices for the date. Definitely not as nice as yours, though with a 10/1 pop I was elated.
How was the MS65 1888 at Santa Clara? Heritage, for once, had a nice image and it looked better than the 66 that didn't sell.
Lovely!
PS- I hope the dealer you got it from does not frequent these forums...
The 8-O'clock stuff is plastic from the holder. The rev. area near the T in CENT is a minor planchet flaw that shows well due to the reflectivity around it. He did a poor job of shaving - sort of a shallow, linear contact mark on the chin....only a few, widely scattered tiny spots. Over all a pleasing coin, PCGS 66R.
No, I don't think the dealer even knows what a computer is - hopefully there isn't a paper version of the forum!
Toothpuller - any chance of posting a pic of the 1906?? That is a tough one..wold love to see it!!
If anyone is interested, I listed the former hole filler, another nice 1900MS66R, on ebay tonight. If it doesn't sell this week, the price will drop the following week.
Toothpuller -- I also noticed the 1888 65RD appeared to have a cleaner look than the 66RD. I believe both were offered on Ebay a couple of months ago by the same seller ("wabdbe"). Before that the 66 was in the Kamauff registry collection that sold in Superior's June Long Beach, and I remember it listed in Legend's inventory a couple of years ago. That crescent shaped spot on the reverse rim is an easy to remember hallmark.
Lakes that coin Christmas tree on eBay is neat. Even called my wife to look at it. Almost as neat as Paul's collages. You call that old 1900 for sale a filler - not!
Go ahead and send that 1906 out....you don't really want to keep it, do you??
Congrads it a awsome find
I hate it when you see my post before I can edit the spelling.
Always looking for nice type coins
my local dealer
Looks like a real prize - nice work!
David Hall has an 1893 MS66 in his inventory at $3250. Don't know if you need to fill that hole or not
Its a little woodgrainy [maybe learning RB, they call it golden-red], but otherwise its spotless and looks pretty decent. pop 19/0
Thought I'd call you attention to the 93, in case you missed it, but figured you would not like it. I actually like my own 1893 65RD better.
I greatly appreciate the heads up....but, the coin isn't for me. Future tips would be appreciated, though...
Shylock - great eyes - looks the same, eh?? I wonder if it was ever owned by a Las Vegas coin dealer????
Lakesammmon -- Funny thing is I very recently posted here that I've been keeping my eye out for that coin but it never resurfaced. Hopefully Mr. Hall will read this post and decide for himself. I'm curious if it has mellowed a bit since it was last listed -- it appears to have but that could just be the imaging. I should also say it's certainly possible this coin was imaged very dark by Heritage in the first place and it was incredibly undergraded. But another scenerio, like a Las Vegas pit stop, seems more likely.
If the coin is "mellowing," then that coin is a great lesson of the pitfalls of AT, or in this case, removal of legitimate toning. As I recall thinking while reading your thread about whether coin doctors were now able to convert a RB coin to a RD coin (the thread from about a year or so ago) I thought the major drawback to this process was the chance that the coin would darken rather quickly. After all, if a coin doctor can permanently remove the brown from a RB coin, there doesn't seem to me as much harm as when the brown removal is only temporary.
Of course, as you correctly mention, it's very hard to determine what is truly going on with that coin because the pictures are from three different sources. But that poor IH might be a classic example of better living through chemistry.
Mark