Share an off-Market coin that you want to improve your set
Clio
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Just as the title says what is a coin that is not available on the market, but you are waiting patiently to come back around or just wish was available for a set and why.
I continue to struggle to find an upgrade for my William and Mary in my monarch set. It's been incredibly difficult to find in high grade and I am stuck at the moment. Looking at past auctions there's a few examples that have come and gone but I have to reach back to 2001 to find one I really feel like would solidify the slot in my set.
Sold by HA in 2001 ungraded for $632. I would happily pay $5k for this coin today. Potentially more. 
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Latin American Collection
But why? Can't say I know anything about the coin in question.
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@SimonW Is that the only known example with the IL?
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Unique 1866. 1867 was the regular issue. There is one reported in a museum in Chile, but it disappeared. Wonder where it is?
Latin American Collection
The only one I’m aware of. I have a feeling it would sell for more today. I think the first time around was such a surprise, the newness of it made people question the legitimacy of it. That and not many people care about Bolivian Republic.
I would assume there’s more, I’ve looked, haven’t seen one.
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1827 R Brazil 960 Reis
Why is that? Is that a year with overstrikes?
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960R are generally all over struck on host coins.
1827 R is one of the lower mintages in the series and, while not at all “rare” by the standards of this board (mintage of 18k, which is about 17,995 more than what I often see posted here), still doesn’t surface for sale with regularity like most of the dates in the series tend to. Some of the later Bahia dates are also in that ballpark of “hard to find” but they all come up once every few years.
I’m just working on a registry set and the 1827 R is one of the tougher open slots. Set doesn’t include the real tough ones like the later Bahia dates or the crazy tough 1816 M. Those are coins I can fantasize about.
Very cool! Do you have a link to the set by chance?
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https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/alltimeset/403671
Great looking set. Seems you've only been working on it since November??? that's great progress. Very impressive.
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Thanks. I bought a really nice 1817 R from CRO at Baltimore in November, then bought David Andre Levy’s book, then started getting hooked.
There are many, but this is a neat one.
1813 Argentina 2s.
If I could conjure a coin to fill a hole in my collection, right now it is this: 1769 Guatemala 8 Reales, large flan, ex Stuart.
I bought nine coins from that auction. It was the first live auction from which I bought, or else I would have bought more. I had a dealer represent me which was actually unnecessary, especially since he failed to bid on one. (I subsequently bought a similar coin a few years later.)
The Whittier collection (this auction) was the largest and most comprehensive collection of Bolivia Republic I've ever seen, by far.
1771 Peru 4R which sold the same day in March 2002 I bought my 1770 Bolivia 4R. Coins looked essentially identical. I should have bought both.
Another would be a 1756 or 1758 Peru 4R described as AU (ex-Patterson I recall) also on eBay a few months later, but the ask was $1750 which was far more than I spent on a single coin at the time.
$632?! No way!