Ownership Odyssey: 1792 to current (FINISHED)!!!

Eldo is in the building!

I think I'm in the wrong thread. Can someone direct me to the steerage thread! 🤣 😉

I was encouraged to post here and it certainly didn’t take any arm-twisting.

I’ve posted this before but…

Following are the background story and pictures of the 1909-S Saint Gaudens $20 gold piece that's been in my family since 1930...

Famous coin dealer, B. Max Mehl, was my grandmother's uncle. Sadly, I never got to know him, as he passed away when I was only three years old. Still, my grandmother was delighted when she learned that beginning at a young age, I was a serious coin collector. Over the years, I've acquired several Mehl catalogs and checks, as well as a poster, from family and forum members. My most treasured remembrance of him and my grandmother is one I have posted about previously, but will do so again, now.

My grandmother was born in 1909 and when she got married in 1930, B. Max Mehl gave her a gem 1909-S Saint, along with a handwritten note of congratulations, as a wedding gift. The signed note, which contains the name of his wife, Ethel - the same name as that of my grandmother - reads:
“May your life be as bright and full of solid happiness as is the enclosed.
Dec-30-1930“

When I was a teenager, my grandmother promised me that she would give me the coin one day. Fast forward several years, when her son/my uncle informed me he had it and would be giving it to me. He also told me that my grandmother (who had apparently forgotten her promise to me) was about to have the coin made into a necklace. But he convinced her not to do so and to allow him to give it to me. Whew!

For many years, I have had the coin in an NGC holder, with a label which includes my grandmother's name.

Hopefully, it goes without saying, that I will always treasure it and the handwritten note of congratulations to my grandmother, which accompanies it.

PR67+CAM w/CAC

Steve

For 1922, the only known example of the 1922 "No D" Cent from the ANACS Die Variety #4 dies in a grade high enough to be able to be sure that the D Mint Mark has TOTALLY worn off of the die. (There are a few well worn pieces known, but I was always reluctant to confirm a new discovery from a low-grade coin.) It is graded as an AU-55 and called a "Weak D" on the slab because PCGS only recognizes Die Pair #2 as qualifying as a "No D." Only this very, very last of many different dies states does not show any trace of the D. This will be in my book.