Stewart Blays copper!

RIP Stewart

Yeah he’ll go down as the Lincoln King forever. Really missing talking to him every other day. Life hasn’t been the same since.

RIP Stu

Some of these cents are almost beyond belief. The 1919-P MS68 doesn't look real. Amazing!

Thanks for the link.
This would certainly qualify as a 'Great Collection'.
The detail on some of these examples is extraordinary.
Wow.

@Meltdown said:

I’ve always thought that coin is simply remarkable! And it’s still in the OGH, But apparently true viewed through the slab. I’d keep it as is!

@DMWJR said:
There are others that watch the boards that know more than I do. But my understanding of the 1919 is that there was a monster roll that came up for sale, and from this roll the MS69 was made along with most of the MS68's. If I recall, there were 15 or so MS68's made from the roll.

Wow! That must have been one helluva roll!

Stewart was without doubt the master of Red Copper.

And I will add this........even Stewart's Red Copper will diminish over time. Might be a hundred or two hundred years but they will no be as red as they are now. The TPG'd slab these coins with slabs that will expose these coins to oxidants, such as oxygen in our atmosphere. They should be maintained in slabs that have even less porosity than the current version of plastic they use and they should be contained by a inert gas such as Argon. Stewart's RD coins should be conserved with much better technology than is currently employed by the TPG's.

OINK

@thebigeng said:
@ianrussell Stewart bought the roll (it was two shotgun rolls) for this one coin. And you're right, the group had 10+ of the finest 1919 Lincolns known including this monster.

How did he know that coin was in there? Where these original rolls from a bank?

I don’t think he knew a ms69 was in there. But probably knew most in the roll were high grade mint state

Red copper....Meh.
I like my copper brown,

Let me just say that the 1919 roll was probably not an original mint roll. But a collection of raw 1919 MS Lincolns that were assembled at one time by an astute dealer or collector for investment purposes.

The kind of money these are going for they should have been reholdered with his pedigree on the label. Preserve the history.

@JimTyler said:
The kind of money these are going for they should have been reholdered with his pedigree on the label. Preserve the history.

We are able to arrange for the winning bidders if they would like "Red Copper" added to the label. As there were so many old green holders, we didn't want to do this automatically.

• Ian

@OldIndianNutKase said:
Let me just say that the 1919 roll was probably not an original mint roll. But a collection of raw 1919 MS Lincolns that were assembled at one time by an astute dealer or collector for investment purposes.

^^^^ likely this!

@ianrussell said:

@JimTyler said:
The kind of money these are going for they should have been reholdered with his pedigree on the label. Preserve the history.

We are able to arrange for the winning bidders if they would like "Red Copper" added to the label. As there were so many old green holders, we didn't want to do this automatically.

• Ian

Should have been honored with his name as pedigree along with Red Copper IMO

@ianrussell said:

@JimTyler said:

@ianrussell said:

@JimTyler said:
The kind of money these are going for they should have been reholdered with his pedigree on the label. Preserve the history.

We are able to arrange for the winning bidders if they would like "Red Copper" added to the label. As there were so many old green holders, we didn't want to do this automatically.

• Ian

Should have been honored with his name as pedigree along with Red Copper IMO

It would be confusing if half were prepared that way for the auction and the other half were not. This way, the new owner is in control. Stewart didn't even want us to regrade all of the coins - instead wanting them offered as they are - he said "the coins speak for themselves". Some might even like their purchases put in PCGS's rarity holders (which we can look into for the winning bidders).

• Ian

PCGS should label the provenance externally on the slab. That way the new owner can remove the reference without resubmitting the coin. And of course this would avoid cracking an OGH.

@winesteven said:

@ianrussell said:

@JimTyler said:
The kind of money these are going for they should have been reholdered with his pedigree on the label. Preserve the history.

We are able to arrange for the winning bidders if they would like "Red Copper" added to the label. As there were so many old green holders, we didn't want to do this automatically.

• Ian

If we request this after being high bidder on a lot, can PCGS preserve the same cert number? This will help in TWO ways:

1. The cert number will still tie to the coin in this auction.
2. This makes it simple to get the CAC sticker AUTOMATICALLY REAPPLIED if the cert number remains unchanged.

Yes - that would be our request too - we had some other coins pedigreed to Elite recently and the cert #s did not change.

• Ian

@Chevyrose said:
Those auction prices went crazy
$375,000 plus the juice for 1919 ms69 rd
$307,000 plus juice for 09 s vdb

Stew is looking down and he’s happy

Amazing! Nice to see Lincoln cents going strong!

Miss him on the forums.

The 09 S VDB, 19, and the 22 no d brought nearly one million. Deep pockets came out for this sale. Stewart would have been pleased others treasured these Lincolns as he did.

I like to think stew found the best Lincoln’s of all time
I don’t think there is an ms70 wheat cent in existence
Or a 1926s in 66 rd

It’s probable that coins from this sale, in the next 20-30 years will be the first million dollar Lincolns