I’m lagging badly today (except for the coffee). I hope to hookup in OKC next week with all the participants here that may be attending! Here’s another new RD in my IHC “hoard” (my missus’
term):
I sold my 67RD example recently. While I liked it, others made it controversial. It’s one of only 3 graded 67RD’s but it got to be the subject of too much criticism & I just got tired of it. Today’s NEWP is a stunning beauty - a full on 66+ RD that’s essentially mark free & with great eye appeal. Not to mention the coveted double stickers (a nod there to my friend @winesteven).
@pursuitofliberty . Thank you for posting my 1807 coin pic, truly appreciated. @Catbert . Thank you for your kind words. Speaking of other "treasure", I assume you are also the Catbert with the wonderful article in the Gorbrecht Journal. I keep this issue by my side of the sofa just so i can admire your New Orleans coins on a regular basis. james
I hope everyone is enjoying their Saturday morning... I'm in the throes of moving my girlfriend in this weekend... her house is closing in a couple of weeks. Away from coins for the day...
Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;
Hi Guys! Back from my travels just in time to go to Oklahoma! I love August!
Anyway, I was a guest speaker at Witter University instructing the teens all about Bust Coinage. I discussed how to buy and sell and make money along with the many technical aspect of Early American Coinage. To ensure that the students were going to enjoy the talk, I gave away a sample slab that CAC helped me with. These students love sample slabs and everyone participated and I thought the talk was great. Thank you to Witter Coins for making me a guest speaker as well as to CAC for getting the slab completed in very short order and most importantly the students and hope they got alot out of the 1 week long class. Going for a coffee drink - Bye for now!
Hope y'all don't mind but it's been a very long week (Why i don't care about pic quality tonight, either) so I'm going to put my spin on this Thread Title and call it Saturday Evening CORONA w Coins... I'll be back to coffee in the morning.
Was able to open my mail after work today and take a look at these three... down to one last release in this series and it's all over..
Back to the “grind” (haha - get it?) on this beautiful SF Bay Area Saturday! While my trip to the WFOM in OKC was brief, it was my first one in 20 years! Here’s my big buy:
This is a VERY RARE Copper 1856 S-1 PR. It’s one of only two known (there’s a third that’s a S-5 formerly in the Simpson collection). I won’t muddy up the thread with the details about this coin; suffice to say back in the day it was thought all these PR FE’s were copper. Time & analysis proved that to be incorrect - most all are of copper nickel composition.
I’ll pause here to take a bow & offer a backpat, fist bump & hand shake to fellow member Matt Chapman (renomedphys) for making this available.
EEPS & CAC. I do have a housekeeping chore to have CAC move the bean so the S-1 is uncovered.
Happy Sat Guys! In honor of the upcoming James Stack auction, I thought I would post his 1901-o (a rare date) This one was originally auctioned off in 1975 for $650.00 bucks! Wish I was there....!
Here's a new purchase. Society of Medalists, "World Unity or Oblivion" by Berthold Nebel in 1945. A striking design of a mushroom cloud in front a sea of bodies haunts the reverse, while an American GI offers water to his wounded comrade on the obverse die.
Happy Saturday to you all
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
@Copperindian said:
Back to the “grind” (haha - get it?) on this beautiful SF Bay Area Saturday! While my trip to the WFOM in OKC was brief, it was my first one in 20 years! Here’s my big buy:
Man, oh man, that is a moose of a coin… what a great pickup!!
My favorite coin from the show, a 35 O-109, came from the early cents auction of the Hall of Fame collection. The coin was from the Birchers collection in previously in George Ramona’s collection. George Ramont sold a lot of his collection to Jules reiver, which is a pretty cool provenance . The true views don’t do it justice. It sat in its original flip for almost 50 years in a safe and has an iridescent blue and Rose toning throughout. The surfaces are flawless
Back from Oklahoma -
Drinking alot of coffee keeping me up. These luster bombs really woke me up in Oklahoma so i brought them home with me. Not in my wheel house but fell in love with them!
Sorry I missed everyone yesterday. I was up early and over at HA for the last of my lot viewing and a little walk around before four of us Nuts met back at the Hotel and caught an Uber to the Airport. We also had lunch and a beer there and enjoyed some conversation before we headed our separate ways.
And WOW! Great coins yesterday too!! I miss one Saturday morning and you guys all break out the big guns!!!
I started to write a show report on my flight home, and may finish it up and post it later in a show thread, but the overall take home from the show is all in the image below. It was a great time seeing and hanging out with friends. Wonderful seeing you @EastonCollection Next time I'll need to make sure we are anticipating so many people and get one of the banquet rooms so we can have a more free flowing dinner conversation.
Thanks to David Kahn (and Melissa, Josh and Dick Graham), Phil Hinkleman at Eye Appealing Coins, Steve Herrman, and especially our own Alan B. @Desert Moon (more on that coin later) for the coins, and also a new acquaintance (and very sharp young man) for the paper - A.J. at Dempsey & Baxter.
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“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
@EastonCollection said:
Back from Oklahoma -
Drinking alot of coffee keeping me up. These luster bombs really woke me up in Oklahoma so i brought them home with me. Not in my wheel house but fell in love with them!
@EastonCollection said: @Eldorado9 - the 1858 FE is a really luster bomb - It was love at first sight. PS - She gave me a kiss last night, she is that good looking.
Enjoying some coffee and this NEWP on a beautiful Labor Day weekend!
Love the color, originality and lack of damage… don’t mind at all the low grade, matter of fact I love this type of original and well circulated early type coin - she’s a beautiful and historic relic of our founding.
Sorry about the photos, I do realize that my crude phone pics are about as bad as it gets….
She’ll now join my family of little half sisters!
I have been looking for an upgrade to my 1822 Bust Quarter. In Oklahoma, I mentioned my desire to a dealer and coincidentally he had one and was willing to part it with me. Its a "WOW" coin and just fantastic. Super happy about this newps. Happy to share it with you Saturday coffee and coin folks.. The True View color is slightly off but when I can get find a good coin photographer, then I will get a better picture. Happy Saturday!
Trying something new today - a Nespresso double espresso! Strong just how I like it - a great way to start off Saturday on this fabulous thread.
Along with the new today I have something old (from my collecting days gone by). Many years ago I bought (& sold) mostly MS Morgan dollars. I saw the coin below in last Sunday’s GC auction & was lucky to win it:
Back in those days one of the dates I never owned was the 1893-CC; it’s still very tough today. I note these whenever I see one & I rarely see a MS64 cross the auction block. Not only that, but one with a CAC bean is almost never seen at that grade level. This one’s a really nice, solid white piece perfectly graded & with a pedigree. Who is “Green”? The famous Colonel Green? I’m going with that until proven otherwise!
I'm moving a little slow this morning. Tried to wreck my back last night.
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Well, of course, last week was the ANA in OKC, and I had a great time. I even wrote a rambling show report, which most of you probably saw.
Here's one on my newp's from the show, and there's a bit of an interesting story behind it.
One of those, "Did I find that coin, or did it find me?!"
.
Preparing for the ANA this year I had agreed to do a presentation for the BHNC, and one of the parts I tried to incorporate was some favorite Die Marriages with a lot of cracks. Very Late Die State (VLDS) stuff.
I chose the 13-107a for one of those coins, even though I had never owned one. The amount of die cracking and then small chipping that happens in the progression, as well as the clashing present on these ... in addition to the always present "fading" eagles beak (a Die striking condition) just make this a fascinating issue from a date I love to love anyway.
And while I had finished that portion of the presentation a couple weeks before the show, the more I looked at this Die Marriage and Late Die State, the more it was growing as a "coin to find".
.
One thing I try to do is check Dealer sites that I suspect will be at the show for potential newp's they have (and things I may have missed) so I can stop by and look in person.
Over the weekend before I left, I happened upon a ... what? What the heck?!! I know this Die Marriage! In my exact favorite grade, graded at our host, with nice surfaces, a pretty good look and original(ish) dusky color and a bean to boot ... and definitely a VLDS coin!! Oh man!
Now, other than a little banter here on the Board, I didn't know Al with @Desert Moon (yet), although he was long someone I wanted to say Hi to face-to-face.
I put in my notes that I needed to make that stop, as that was a coin to go see ... and crossed my fingers she might be waiting for me.
And low and behold, in the back right corner of his case, she was! Hell I didn't even try negotiate too much!!
While this isn't a tough DM or tough Die State, it's a coin that checked every box for me, and Al graciously allowed me to lighten my cash flow to take her home with me.
.
These are Al's images, which he was gracious enough to share with me. I cropped out the coin images as that's how I like to view them. As many know, Al is a talented photographer here, and also has a unique format for his "Al View" production images.
Anyway, thank you for looking, and thank you again Al for letting me be next up with this one.
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“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
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I’m lagging badly today (except for the coffee). I hope to hookup in OKC next week with all the participants here that may be attending! Here’s another new RD in my IHC “hoard” (my missus’
term):
I sold my 67RD example recently. While I liked it, others made it controversial. It’s one of only 3 graded 67RD’s but it got to be the subject of too much criticism & I just got tired of it. Today’s NEWP is a stunning beauty - a full on 66+ RD that’s essentially mark free & with great eye appeal. Not to mention the coveted double stickers (a nod there to my friend @winesteven).
“The thrill of the hunt never gets old”
PCGS Registry: Screaming Eagles
Copperindian
Retired sets: Soaring Eagles
Copperindian
Nickelodeon
@pursuitofliberty . Thank you for posting my 1807 coin pic, truly appreciated.
@Catbert . Thank you for your kind words. Speaking of other "treasure", I assume you are also the Catbert with the wonderful article in the Gorbrecht Journal. I keep this issue by my side of the sofa just so i can admire your New Orleans coins on a regular basis. james
I hope everyone is enjoying their Saturday morning... I'm in the throes of moving my girlfriend in this weekend... her house is closing in a couple of weeks. Away from coins for the day...
Successful BST transactions with: SilverEagles92; Ahrensdad; Smitty; GregHansen; Lablade; Mercury10c; copperflopper; whatsup; KISHU1; scrapman1077, crispy, canadanz, smallchange, robkool, Mission16, ranshdow, ibzman350, Fallguy, Collectorcoins, SurfinxHI, jwitten, Walkerguy21D, dsessom.
Finally got this bit that I missed 11 years ago.
2014 (D):
Well, just Love coins, period.
Hi Guys! Back from my travels just in time to go to Oklahoma! I love August!
Anyway, I was a guest speaker at Witter University instructing the teens all about Bust Coinage. I discussed how to buy and sell and make money along with the many technical aspect of Early American Coinage. To ensure that the students were going to enjoy the talk, I gave away a sample slab that CAC helped me with. These students love sample slabs and everyone participated and I thought the talk was great. Thank you to Witter Coins for making me a guest speaker as well as to CAC for getting the slab completed in very short order and most importantly the students and hope they got alot out of the 1 week long class. Going for a coffee drink - Bye for now!
Hope y'all don't mind but it's been a very long week (Why i don't care about pic quality tonight, either) so I'm going to put my spin on this Thread Title and call it Saturday Evening CORONA w Coins... I'll be back to coffee in the morning.
Was able to open my mail after work today and take a look at these three... down to one last release in this series and it's all over..
Bending the rules, I had these out yesterday, both types for the 1991 Libertad:
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Beautiful late summer Saturday morning, cup of Dunkin’ and a CBH from the 50th anniversary of our great country! Doesn’t get any better!
My morning has been busy with considering coins I can hopefully see in hand in two weeks' time...
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Back to the “grind” (haha - get it?) on this beautiful SF Bay Area Saturday! While my trip to the WFOM in OKC was brief, it was my first one in 20 years! Here’s my big buy:
This is a VERY RARE Copper 1856 S-1 PR. It’s one of only two known (there’s a third that’s a S-5 formerly in the Simpson collection). I won’t muddy up the thread with the details about this coin; suffice to say back in the day it was thought all these PR FE’s were copper. Time & analysis proved that to be incorrect - most all are of copper nickel composition.
I’ll pause here to take a bow & offer a backpat, fist bump & hand shake to fellow member Matt Chapman (renomedphys) for making this available.
EEPS & CAC. I do have a housekeeping chore to have CAC move the bean so the S-1 is uncovered.
“The thrill of the hunt never gets old”
PCGS Registry: Screaming Eagles
Copperindian
Retired sets: Soaring Eagles
Copperindian
Nickelodeon
Getting caffeinated before heading to lab... Last weekend before the Fall Semester begins...
Successful BST transactions with: SilverEagles92; Ahrensdad; Smitty; GregHansen; Lablade; Mercury10c; copperflopper; whatsup; KISHU1; scrapman1077, crispy, canadanz, smallchange, robkool, Mission16, ranshdow, ibzman350, Fallguy, Collectorcoins, SurfinxHI, jwitten, Walkerguy21D, dsessom.
Happy Sat Guys! In honor of the upcoming James Stack auction, I thought I would post his 1901-o (a rare date) This one was originally auctioned off in 1975 for $650.00 bucks! Wish I was there....!
Having coffee with the latest addition to my Miss Liberty harem.
Does the material give rise to the immaterial, or vice versa?
Good morning collectors!
USN & USAF retired 1971-1993
Successful Transactions with more than 100 Members
Here's a new purchase. Society of Medalists, "World Unity or Oblivion" by Berthold Nebel in 1945. A striking design of a mushroom cloud in front a sea of bodies haunts the reverse, while an American GI offers water to his wounded comrade on the obverse die.
Happy Saturday to you all
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
Man, oh man, that is a moose of a coin… what a great pickup!!
Great coins this week everyone! This thread never disappoints.
Not much time for coins today, but I did gander at these lovelies this morning.
Glad to be home drinking a nice espresso.
My favorite coin from the show, a 35 O-109, came from the early cents auction of the Hall of Fame collection. The coin was from the Birchers collection in previously in George Ramona’s collection. George Ramont sold a lot of his collection to Jules reiver, which is a pretty cool provenance . The true views don’t do it justice. It sat in its original flip for almost 50 years in a safe and has an iridescent blue and Rose toning throughout. The surfaces are flawless
BHNC #248 … 130 and counting.
@Pnies20: ORIGINAL! CRUSTY! BEAUTIFUL!
“The thrill of the hunt never gets old”
PCGS Registry: Screaming Eagles
Copperindian
Retired sets: Soaring Eagles
Copperindian
Nickelodeon
Back from Oklahoma -
Drinking alot of coffee keeping me up. These luster bombs really woke me up in Oklahoma so i brought them home with me. Not in my wheel house but fell in love with them!
Enjoyed having dinner with @pursuitofliberty on Thursday.
Sorry I missed everyone yesterday. I was up early and over at HA for the last of my lot viewing and a little walk around before four of us Nuts met back at the Hotel and caught an Uber to the Airport. We also had lunch and a beer there and enjoyed some conversation before we headed our separate ways.
And WOW! Great coins yesterday too!! I miss one Saturday morning and you guys all break out the big guns!!!
I started to write a show report on my flight home, and may finish it up and post it later in a show thread, but the overall take home from the show is all in the image below. It was a great time seeing and hanging out with friends. Wonderful seeing you @EastonCollection Next time I'll need to make sure we are anticipating so many people and get one of the banquet rooms so we can have a more free flowing dinner conversation.
Thanks to David Kahn (and Melissa, Josh and Dick Graham), Phil Hinkleman at Eye Appealing Coins, Steve Herrman, and especially our own Alan B. @Desert Moon (more on that coin later) for the coins, and also a new acquaintance (and very sharp young man) for the paper - A.J. at Dempsey & Baxter.
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“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
Todd - BHNC #242
@EastonCollection Glad you like that stunning 1858 FE! She is a beauty...I will miss her.
@pursuitofliberty What a Haul Buddy! Looks like you nabbed some beauties there!
Great coins @pursuitofliberty Congrats. Wish I could have been there.
Successful BST with drddm, BustDMs, Pnies20, lkeigwin, pursuitofliberty, Bullsitter, felinfoel, SPalladino
$5 Type Set https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/u-s-coins/type-sets/half-eagle-type-set-circulation-strikes-1795-1929/album/344192
CBH Set https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/everyman-collections/everyman-half-dollars/everyman-capped-bust-half-dollars-1807-1839/album/345572
Some shots I took of the 1858, feel free to use them if you'd like. I can also email the files to you.
@Eldorado9 - the 1858 FE is a really luster bomb - It was love at first sight. PS - She gave me a kiss last night, she is that good looking.
I think I'm jealous!
Enjoying some coffee and this NEWP on a beautiful Labor Day weekend!
Love the color, originality and lack of damage… don’t mind at all the low grade, matter of fact I love this type of original and well circulated early type coin - she’s a beautiful and historic relic of our founding.
Sorry about the photos, I do realize that my crude phone pics are about as bad as it gets….
She’ll now join my family of little half sisters!
I have been looking for an upgrade to my 1822 Bust Quarter. In Oklahoma, I mentioned my desire to a dealer and coincidentally he had one and was willing to part it with me. Its a "WOW" coin and just fantastic. Super happy about this newps. Happy to share it with you Saturday coffee and coin folks.. The True View color is slightly off but when I can get find a good coin photographer, then I will get a better picture. Happy Saturday!
USN & USAF retired 1971-1993
Successful Transactions with more than 100 Members
Trying something new today - a Nespresso double espresso! Strong just how I like it - a great way to start off Saturday on this fabulous thread.
Along with the new today I have something old (from my collecting days gone by). Many years ago I bought (& sold) mostly MS Morgan dollars. I saw the coin below in last Sunday’s GC auction & was lucky to win it:
Back in those days one of the dates I never owned was the 1893-CC; it’s still very tough today. I note these whenever I see one & I rarely see a MS64 cross the auction block. Not only that, but one with a CAC bean is almost never seen at that grade level. This one’s a really nice, solid white piece perfectly graded & with a pedigree. Who is “Green”? The famous Colonel Green? I’m going with that until proven otherwise!
“The thrill of the hunt never gets old”
PCGS Registry: Screaming Eagles
Copperindian
Retired sets: Soaring Eagles
Copperindian
Nickelodeon
@EastonCollection Damn nice large sized Capped Bust quarter! Wowza....That thing is a stunner!
Here's an Eldo Box of 10 for everyone to enjoy.....Happy Sat Gents!
Good Morning and Happy Caffeine!! Tough acts to follow this AM!
Successful BST transactions with: SilverEagles92; Ahrensdad; Smitty; GregHansen; Lablade; Mercury10c; copperflopper; whatsup; KISHU1; scrapman1077, crispy, canadanz, smallchange, robkool, Mission16, ranshdow, ibzman350, Fallguy, Collectorcoins, SurfinxHI, jwitten, Walkerguy21D, dsessom.
Great coins this morning guys, as always!
I'm moving a little slow this morning. Tried to wreck my back last night.
.
Well, of course, last week was the ANA in OKC, and I had a great time. I even wrote a rambling show report, which most of you probably saw.
Here's one on my newp's from the show, and there's a bit of an interesting story behind it.
One of those, "Did I find that coin, or did it find me?!"
.
Preparing for the ANA this year I had agreed to do a presentation for the BHNC, and one of the parts I tried to incorporate was some favorite Die Marriages with a lot of cracks. Very Late Die State (VLDS) stuff.
I chose the 13-107a for one of those coins, even though I had never owned one. The amount of die cracking and then small chipping that happens in the progression, as well as the clashing present on these ... in addition to the always present "fading" eagles beak (a Die striking condition) just make this a fascinating issue from a date I love to love anyway.
And while I had finished that portion of the presentation a couple weeks before the show, the more I looked at this Die Marriage and Late Die State, the more it was growing as a "coin to find".
.
One thing I try to do is check Dealer sites that I suspect will be at the show for potential newp's they have (and things I may have missed) so I can stop by and look in person.
Over the weekend before I left, I happened upon a ... what? What the heck?!! I know this Die Marriage! In my exact favorite grade, graded at our host, with nice surfaces, a pretty good look and original(ish) dusky color and a bean to boot ... and definitely a VLDS coin!! Oh man!
Now, other than a little banter here on the Board, I didn't know Al with @Desert Moon (yet), although he was long someone I wanted to say Hi to face-to-face.
I put in my notes that I needed to make that stop, as that was a coin to go see ... and crossed my fingers she might be waiting for me.
And low and behold, in the back right corner of his case, she was! Hell I didn't even try negotiate too much!!
While this isn't a tough DM or tough Die State, it's a coin that checked every box for me, and Al graciously allowed me to lighten my cash flow to take her home with me.
.
These are Al's images, which he was gracious enough to share with me. I cropped out the coin images as that's how I like to view them. As many know, Al is a talented photographer here, and also has a unique format for his "Al View" production images.
Anyway, thank you for looking, and thank you again Al for letting me be next up with this one.
.
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
Todd - BHNC #242
Received these two coins back from our host yesterday. Quite frosty.
Good weekend to all!!! You guys have some amazing coins!!!
The coins are scattered on the beach 😆
https://www.autismforums.com/media/albums/acrylic-colors-by-rocco.291/