1873-CC Trade dollar... you might say the price was right...
lordmarcovan
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This an old picture of my corkboard "Holey Basic 19th Century Type Set". It was taken about a year ago.
Since this picture was taken, I had all but completed it except for two coins: the Seated Dollar With Motto and the Trade dollar.
The set follows along the lines of the Dansco 7070 album type set inclusions, except I'm ignoring the 20th century portion of that. So it is just the 19th century portion of a 7070 set.
This means it also omits the Draped Bust silver coins, though it does include the Draped Bust half cent and cent. Since this is a casual endeavor and I never intended to spend much money on it, that works fine for me. Those Draped Bust silver coins can be expensive even in a holed state.
So I had it all but done except for the Seated Dollar With Motto and the Trade Dollar.
Then @LukeMarshall just up and gifted me a holey Trade dollar... out of the blue!
And not just ANY Trade dollar... it's an 1873-CC! Wow!
I imagine this would've been a $1K+ coin without the hole and other issues it has!
Now, I would certainly never let this poor, abused coin anywhere near my primary (slabbed) collection, but it's an ideal fit for the holey type set! I'm delighted to have it. That fills the second-to-last hole in the corkboard collection.
Many thanks to you, @LukeMarshall ! I greatly appreciate the kindness. 
This also happens to be the only Carson City coin in my present ownership.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
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A while back, I was working on a holey date set of Flying Eagle and Indian cents (no 1877 or S-mints), and was reasonably far along in it, but not complete. I got cold feet and decided I would rather pursue a holey Type set instead (which I have done, as you see above). So I offered the partial holey Indian cent date set for sale on the BST, with a challenge to anyone who was crazy enough to buy it and work on it. I had forgotten who I sold it to, but it turns out @LukeMarshall was that guy.
Since he's been so generous with the gift of the better-date Trade dollar above, I am going to reciprocate. (You can't stop me, Luke- I have your address on this package right here. Haha.)
Here is a better-date Indian cent (1864-L) that was my type coin in the collection above. I'm gonna send it to Luke for the Indian cent date set. He should have it. I can replace it with a more common date holey in my type set.
Luke, this one is yours now. Watch yer mailbox, and thanks again.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
Thanks for the shoutout @lordmarcovan , I can see how much this holey coin means to you and am pleased you are enjoying it.
…and I’ll say this
The collecting hobby is naturally about acquiring things…
I acquired this coin on a whim with an idea in mind to pursue similar types , but shelved the idea along with this dollar.
If you spend any time on the forums you will see that @lordmarcovan always has an active “giveaway thread” where he freely gives away his stuff.
What’s the caveat, why just give away something that you’ve collected ?
Is giving the antithesis of collecting?
Typically he will poise the question for his giveaways , “why do you want said item” and get some sort of a personalized response of what the coin/medal/etc means to that person. The winner undoubtedly gets the happiness of the win, along with the familiar feeling of adding a new piece to thier collection.
But furthermore it’s now a storied piece.
It may be a little out of my comfort zone to just give away a treasure but all things considered, even the things left unmentioned, I wanted to give @lordmarcovan something he obviously wanted , which has now become a storied piece.
It has also afforded me the ability to give freely and make someone else happy.
Not bad for a dollar…
It's all about what the people want...
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.