@Abuelo said:
This year has been a bit of an oddity for my. After seven and a half months, I just bought my first coin. And this one comes from a fellow member of the board! Thank you very much @FistFullOfDollars for this magnificent coin! This is a really rare issue.
I got this pattern centavo in tonight’s Briggs & Bustos sale. It wasn’t cheap, but quality never is. Finest graded with glossy surfaces. I LOVE nice copper!
During the Heritage ANA auction, a friend offered me this very rare 1849 Popayan proof pattern 10 Reales. There are three documented with this being the finest of the three. It took very little time to link this coin back to the 1964 Schulman sale of the Virgil Brand estate. In recent times, the coin was in the Eldorado sale and then Cape Coral. This piece is graded SP65 with the Norweb coin graded SP64 and the Restrepo plate a lower grade.
The 1849 Bogota pattern is noted in the Norweb sale as being made by William Wyon. The designs are very close aside from the obvious Bogota/Popayan naming. A potential link to Wyon and the location of production (likely London) is in the research plan for this piece.
@pruebas said:
I got this pattern centavo in tonight’s Briggs & Bustos sale. It wasn’t cheap, but quality never is. Finest graded with glossy surfaces. I LOVE nice copper!
Great pickup, pruebas! I was watching the bids go back and forth on that lot and hoped it went to you, glad to see it did!
Some really impressive rarities @pruebas and @boosibri. Extremely impressive eye appeal as well. Congrats on some really cool additions.
In my much more common, eye appeal focused realm……..it came in a pretty beat up holder so I sent in for reholdering and got a TV while I was at it. This one came out very well and pretty much nails the in hand look.
AU 58
I snagged this one from CRO in Pittsburgh. Another AU 58. Unsurprisingly, he had a very impressive assortment of CAR 8Rs. at that show that included a couple of 58+s. After studying each of them I liked this one the most.
I also picked up this medal (sorry, not a coin) after a horrible bidding war. This medal was struck to commemorate the first steam-powered coinage in San Luis Potosi. The eagle is of very high relief.
It comes in various metals but this copper one is the best I’ve ever seen. The planchets always seem to be cast due to porosity.
There was also a (supposed) silver example in the sale that was XF Details (though raw), but I let that one go at a sane price. I bid this one up to an insane price because I really, really wanted it.
You may know I collect first steam coinage medals, and I’d humbly say I have the finest collection of US first steam coinage medals. I also have 3 for Mexico (SLP, Guadalupe y Calvo, & Zacatecas) and a bunch for Bolivia.
One of those things that immediately took me from “didn’t know it existed” to “I need to own that” as soon as it was shown to me in Pittsburgh.
1972 silver Death of Roberto Clemente medal issued by the Puerto Rican Numismatic Society. Should probably be graded SP instead of MS as it is absolutely a proof, but whatever.
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Damn! Nice one!
I bought this pair of British West Indies patterns in the Stacks Bowers auction today. Among the finest graded, albeit with a few light carbon spots.
I believe these are William Wyon creations. Both from the Charles “Cheech” Litman Collection.
I got this pattern centavo in tonight’s Briggs & Bustos sale. It wasn’t cheap, but quality never is. Finest graded with glossy surfaces. I LOVE nice copper!
During the Heritage ANA auction, a friend offered me this very rare 1849 Popayan proof pattern 10 Reales. There are three documented with this being the finest of the three. It took very little time to link this coin back to the 1964 Schulman sale of the Virgil Brand estate. In recent times, the coin was in the Eldorado sale and then Cape Coral. This piece is graded SP65 with the Norweb coin graded SP64 and the Restrepo plate a lower grade.
The 1849 Bogota pattern is noted in the Norweb sale as being made by William Wyon. The designs are very close aside from the obvious Bogota/Popayan naming. A potential link to Wyon and the location of production (likely London) is in the research plan for this piece.
Latin American Collection
That was a nice one @pruebas
And here I thought you were quiting Mexican patterns...
Great pickup, pruebas! I was watching the bids go back and forth on that lot and hoped it went to you, glad to see it did!
Some really impressive rarities @pruebas and @boosibri. Extremely impressive eye appeal as well. Congrats on some really cool additions.
In my much more common, eye appeal focused realm……..it came in a pretty beat up holder so I sent in for reholdering and got a TV while I was at it. This one came out very well and pretty much nails the in hand look.
AU 58
I snagged this one from CRO in Pittsburgh. Another AU 58. Unsurprisingly, he had a very impressive assortment of CAR 8Rs. at that show that included a couple of 58+s. After studying each of them I liked this one the most.
It’s an incurable sickness. Or an addiction, depending on how you look at it.
I also picked up this medal (sorry, not a coin) after a horrible bidding war. This medal was struck to commemorate the first steam-powered coinage in San Luis Potosi. The eagle is of very high relief.
It comes in various metals but this copper one is the best I’ve ever seen. The planchets always seem to be cast due to porosity.
There was also a (supposed) silver example in the sale that was XF Details (though raw), but I let that one go at a sane price. I bid this one up to an insane price because I really, really wanted it.
You may know I collect first steam coinage medals, and I’d humbly say I have the finest collection of US first steam coinage medals. I also have 3 for Mexico (SLP, Guadalupe y Calvo, & Zacatecas) and a bunch for Bolivia.
One of those things that immediately took me from “didn’t know it existed” to “I need to own that” as soon as it was shown to me in Pittsburgh.
1972 silver Death of Roberto Clemente medal issued by the Puerto Rican Numismatic Society. Should probably be graded SP instead of MS as it is absolutely a proof, but whatever.
MS 68
Just back from PCGS:
1735/4 Mo MF 1/2 Real in AU58.
Love it!
I'm BACK!!! Used to be Billet7 on the old forum.