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Great Collections' Auction of the Jack Lee-Coronet 1893-S Morgan

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  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 36,898 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @coinkat said:
    @jmlanzaf

    Okay its not a picture... but is that the dark chocolate or milk chocolate variety?

    Not even that tasty. It's an artist rendition. They are always terrible. I hate them and don't put any stock in them. The coins always look flat and lifeless, even some of their better designs.

    All comments reflect the opinion of the author, evn when irrefutably accurate.

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

    @ColonelJessup Eliasberg was on a different collector mission as I always felt Sunnywood put one of the best matched Morgan sets together. It was the perfect "turn key" set which IMHO Simpson should have just left intact and not tried to improve upon for registry points.

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  • CatbertCatbert Posts: 7,649 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Broadstruck said:
    I'd also much rather have the ex: Sunnywood MS65 as the Jack Lee MS67 doesn't have the same swoon factor.

    No Morgan, no matter how rare, has a swoon factor! >:)

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  • ColonelJessupColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 25, 2021 9:57AM

    @Broadstruck said:
    @ColonelJessup Eliasberg was on a different collector mission as I always felt Sunnywood put one of the best matched Morgan sets together. It was the perfect "turn key" set which IMHO Simpson should have just left intact and not tried to improve upon for registry points.

    Eliasberg = numismatic giant (couldn't grade, never consulted a Redbook)
    Sunnywood = sweet man with an excellent eye for color admired by a dozen people who aren't exclusively chatroom chimps

    I consider your taxonomy and hagiography and the prevalence of its attendant devotees to be a major impetus in the continuing exit and depletion of institutional Forum knowledge

    @Catbert said:

    No Morgan, no matter how rare, has a swoon factor! >:)

    Speaking for @cnncoins and myself, that's funny :#

    @Broadstruck said:
    Sunnywood MS65

    That's not :'(

    Edited without permission of the author:

    I'd also much rather have the ex: Eliasberg MS65 as the Vermeule-Jack Lee MS67 doesn't have the same swoon factor.

    inarguable. You've got a over-amped overly-orange-toned and better-than-lifelike MS65 image and a marginally-acceptable under-lit counter-glamor shot of the 67.

    But some others have expressed that preference after having seen both in-hand :)

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  • Not sure I think it went for 1.85$ million?

  • orevilleoreville Posts: 12,159 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 30, 2021 10:30PM

    the only opinion that I cared to hear from was from Jack Lee himself. I never got to hear which Morgan silver dollar Jack thought was his favorite. But Jack told me he loved his 1921-P walker most of all his walkers. That is why I had to own it.

    i bought this back in the 1990”s. Received a CAC sticker many years later and never even bothered to try to upgrade this slab.

    A Collectors Universe poster since 1997!
  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Catbert said:

    @Broadstruck said:
    I'd also much rather have the ex: Sunnywood MS65 as the Jack Lee MS67 doesn't have the same swoon factor.

    No Morgan, no matter how rare, has a swoon factor! >:)

    I'm sure George Morgan thought Lady Morgan was swoon-worthy!

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