So after the slab cracked it sat for a short while and developed a tone on the reverse. I sent it back to have it holdered again. This is how it resides now.
I dig it..
Ken, the original coin, as you may already know, is a 26-110 ... which was what I started to what to share with you on Saturday.
The mistaken reverse image was a little more difficult to identify, but I am certain it is a 1817 O-112a ... and showing with quite a bit more clashing and of a later state than any of the images I have referenced for that DM/DS. And frankly, it took me a little bit of sleuthing to find that reverse crack.
For those interested ... the first tell on the image mismatch? 1826's do not have the type of logotype for "50 C." on the reverse as the original images had shown, so once I realized that was what looked off, I knew there was something wrong.
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 ) "Formerly OAKSTAR with 8,777 posts"
Still out & about traveling with the missus, but feel fortunate to have saved a draft to post here in my favorite thread today. And, the coffee’s good & strong too.
This Saturday’s edition:
The Blue Hill Collection was primarily comprised of New Orleans gold in all denominations minted there. Some 64 pieces were auctioned/sold through Doug Winter in 2019 (exception being the double eagles, which were sold the following year).
As far as the QE’s, DW rates the 1846-O as #6 in his rarity listings, but the story doesn’t stop there. That year, the war with Mexico was in full swing. New Orleans was the center of this effort, with troops & supplies going through the city. The mint was in full swing to support the commerce & the army’s needs.
Mintage of the 1846-O QE was pretty low (62000) & the striking quality was below average. Most survivors today are heavily abraided & show strike weakness in the center of both obv & rev. A low MS graded example like this coin is rare, especially with the quality this piece shows. There are no serious or grade limiting abrasions, plus the coin is a lustrous orange gold with nice eye appeal. Noteworthy, too, is the CAC approval.
Next Saturday, I’ll be winding up the trip, but still hope to have an entry for the thread. Still missing college football - they don’t care much about that in the places we’re traveling.
I don't have a coin to share but this is one of my favorite threads; so here is a coffee factoid. It takes 10 to 12 years for a human being to develop the digestive system necessary to drink coffee. I know this because 3 time in my life, doctors shut down my entire digestive system and nuked all the enzymes that previously existed.
I have been a devoted Tea drinker since the mid 1990's; but I admire everyone who can still drink coffee. I won't even get started on booze........James
Like @seatedlib3991 I also don't have a coin to share this week but this is my favorite thread and I am enjoying my coffee so I'll share one brief anecdote from this week.
I texted a dealer I know fairly well to see if he was planning to bring any coins to the upcoming Baltimore show that might match my wantlist. He responded that he would be bringing a particular coin that would probably sell in the mid-to-upper six figures. I let him know I’d love to have a look, but that it was a bit out of my price range.
He then mentioned that my ~$300k coin was still at CAC but should be back shortly. I let him know that, unfortunately, that wasn’t my coin, at which point he revealed that he was ill and had mixed me up with another client with the same first name.
It made for a good laugh. Have a great Halloween everybody!
Good morning, and Happy Halloween Saturday Morning with Coins Crew!
This morning Im drinking my cappuccino with a token (or metallic check as they were called) from Old Boston. Tremont House Cafe (circa 1890) rev "1"
Aug 26, 1879, The Boston Globe:
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
Well, it isn't Saturday morning anymore, but it's still Saturday, and now that I'm home I just read through today's posts.
This thread, as many probably know, is absolutely my favorite recurring thread, and I hate to miss it in the morning.
But today my morning was a little different ... even if I did eventually have coffee and I was thinking about coins.
.
But let me start yesterday, when after some errands out in town and then inland in Olympia, I drove down to Portland to see my daughter for Taco Friday night (which was also a late celebration with her for my birthday a little over a week ago). Great dinner, great company (a couple of her friends that I have known for quite some tike came over) and just a nice time. After the friends left, my daughter and I traded blows playing Boggle, and she came out on top.
This morning we visited some more, walked the dog, and I finally made it to a Starbucks, which I hungerly sipped as I made my way up the PNNA show.
Well attended and a gorgeous venue, I looked around half the floor before I made it over to @2windy2fish 's table, which he was sharing with two others. @Meltdown was one, and for the life of me I can't remember the other guys handle here on the board. It was the first time I remember meeting him.
Anyway Daryl @2windy2fish had told me a few weeks back that he was bringing a coin for me, and so I was intrigued and wanted to see what he was giving me "first shot" at. Low and behold he had sent me an image prior, and I attributed it, but I didn't put two and two together.
Oh my. Just a lovely original looking, lightly colored dirty girl ... and a DM I didn't already have. Spoiler alert ... I do now!!
Thank you so much Daryl! You're awesome.
Then Brian @Meltdown bought a couple of small cents I had in the for sale box, and we all talked coins (and fishing) for a while before a couple of the Nuts that were at the show found me. In all there were five of us there, but I never got a chance to say Hi to Gawain @carabonnair . I saw him across the room, briefly, but that was it.
Anyway, the other four of us Nuts eventually made it to lunch but not before Daryl called me back to the table to discuss a nice circulated 1812 O-106a that he was offering for sale to another customer, and then Brian pulled out two well worn CBH's.
Both of those were nice, but maybe just AG in grade, yet wholesome, unmolested examples. The first was an 1811 (I think), and the second was an 1832. When I picked up the 1832, I thought to myself, Wouldn't that be cool if it was a O-101? And I'll be! When I flipped it over it was obvious, even if the crack was only discernable due to the way it protected the field in the "armpit of the wing" with a sharp ridge. Anyway, it was quite fantastic and I should have taken a picture because it is certainly the lowest grade 32-101 I have ever seen, and was really cool as such.
Lunch was good, and each of the four of us had a new coin to bring home ... so the show, in that respect, was a rousing success. One also brough a box of show and tell, and I was floored. Well, not really because he has awesome coins, but still. Original, old school kraft envelope grey-russet-tan dirt P58cac's (mostly) in very difficult dates and DM's. Just wonderful.
More coffee on the way home to keep me going, and here I am rambling away ... as much of a Show Report as a Saturday Morning Coffee with Coins bent ... but alas, I'm late ... and this is what you get!
.
Oh, yeah ... that coin Daryl saved for me?
An 1824 O-116 with a lovely doubled profile and quite attractive surfaces. I'll get closeups later, but that isn't happening tonight.
.
Hope you all had a great Saturday!!
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
Then Brian @Meltdown bought a couple of small cents I had in the for sale box, and we all talked coins (and fishing) for a while before a couple of the Nuts that were at the show found me. In all there were five of us there, but I never got a chance to say Hi to Gawain @carabonnair . I saw him across the room, briefly, but that was it.
...
Yep, I talked to a couple other "nuts" - sorry I missed chatting with you. A productive show for me, but it took a day and a half to even visit all the tables! Forgot to get a photo of coffee at the hotel restaurant where you could meet most of the PNNA dealers at breakfast.
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I have nothing to post today. Next Saturday I hope to have some eye candy to share with the forum.
Having my afternoon coffee and enjoying college football. All recent additions:
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Hey! Ken!! @Copperindian
This bothered me yesterday because as I was trying to attribute your coin, and it didn't make sense.
But my Brother and Sister in Law were on their way and I put it down to I was having a brain-f*** and I'd come back to it later.
That is NOT the reverse of your wonderful looking 1826 CBH in the P63cac OGH.
I don't know if you mixed it up, or if the seller to you did, or maybe this is a trick Halloween trick? ... but that reverse isn't from an 1826.
“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
@pursuitofliberty: hey Todd - I must have mixed it up; I’ll check my pics!
Ken
“The thrill of the hunt never gets old”
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@lermish Yeah, I found the 2020 sale, so I knew. Yesterday I just knew it wasn't a '26 reverse.
For various reasons I wanted to make sure Ken knew, but didn't feel like it was mine to post.
“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
Oops, edited. Good point.
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@pursuitofliberty: OK Todd, how about this one?
I mixed it up with another OGH rev in my inventory too!
Can you tell what the date is on the one I posted erroneously? (my bet would be yes).
Anyway, nice catch
Ken
“The thrill of the hunt never gets old”
PCGS Registry: Screaming Eagles
Copperindian
Copperindian II
Indy Eagles
Gold Rush
Bust Caps
Retired sets: Soaring Eagles
Copperindian
Nickelodeon
Early Walkers
Successful transactions: Eagle Eye, redraider, winesteven, renomedphys, splitaces, oreville, ajaan, Cent1225, onlyroosies, justindan, blitzdude, DesertMoon, johnnyb, Heubschgold, SunshineRareCoins, ParadimeCoins, ndeagles, Southern_Knights, pcgsregistrycollector
So after the slab cracked it sat for a short while and developed a tone on the reverse. I sent it back to have it holdered again. This is how it resides now.
I dig it..
Ken, the original coin, as you may already know, is a 26-110 ... which was what I started to what to share with you on Saturday.
The mistaken reverse image was a little more difficult to identify, but I am certain it is a 1817 O-112a ... and showing with quite a bit more clashing and of a later state than any of the images I have referenced for that DM/DS. And frankly, it took me a little bit of sleuthing to find that reverse crack.
For those interested ... the first tell on the image mismatch? 1826's do not have the type of logotype for "50 C." on the reverse as the original images had shown, so once I realized that was what looked off, I knew there was something wrong.
“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
@pursuitofliberty:
Hi Todd - I just knew you would know! Awesome analysis!
Here’s the other side of my erroneous reverse from the original post (the other side of the coin)
:
For those who may have missed it, I posted the correct reverse in an earlier post above.
Ken (with apologies for my error, but Todd to the rescue)
“The thrill of the hunt never gets old”
PCGS Registry: Screaming Eagles
Copperindian
Copperindian II
Indy Eagles
Gold Rush
Bust Caps
Retired sets: Soaring Eagles
Copperindian
Nickelodeon
Early Walkers
Successful transactions: Eagle Eye, redraider, winesteven, renomedphys, splitaces, oreville, ajaan, Cent1225, onlyroosies, justindan, blitzdude, DesertMoon, johnnyb, Heubschgold, SunshineRareCoins, ParadimeCoins, ndeagles, Southern_Knights, pcgsregistrycollector
Love the toning on this one
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 ) "Formerly OAKSTAR with 8,777 posts"
Still out & about traveling with the missus, but feel fortunate to have saved a draft to post here in my favorite thread today. And, the coffee’s good & strong too.
This Saturday’s edition:
The Blue Hill Collection was primarily comprised of New Orleans gold in all denominations minted there. Some 64 pieces were auctioned/sold through Doug Winter in 2019 (exception being the double eagles, which were sold the following year).
As far as the QE’s, DW rates the 1846-O as #6 in his rarity listings, but the story doesn’t stop there. That year, the war with Mexico was in full swing. New Orleans was the center of this effort, with troops & supplies going through the city. The mint was in full swing to support the commerce & the army’s needs.
Mintage of the 1846-O QE was pretty low (62000) & the striking quality was below average. Most survivors today are heavily abraided & show strike weakness in the center of both obv & rev. A low MS graded example like this coin is rare, especially with the quality this piece shows. There are no serious or grade limiting abrasions, plus the coin is a lustrous orange gold with nice eye appeal. Noteworthy, too, is the CAC approval.
Next Saturday, I’ll be winding up the trip, but still hope to have an entry for the thread. Still missing college football - they don’t care much about that in the places we’re traveling.
“The thrill of the hunt never gets old”
PCGS Registry: Screaming Eagles
Copperindian
Copperindian II
Indy Eagles
Gold Rush
Bust Caps
Retired sets: Soaring Eagles
Copperindian
Nickelodeon
Early Walkers
Successful transactions: Eagle Eye, redraider, winesteven, renomedphys, splitaces, oreville, ajaan, Cent1225, onlyroosies, justindan, blitzdude, DesertMoon, johnnyb, Heubschgold, SunshineRareCoins, ParadimeCoins, ndeagles, Southern_Knights, pcgsregistrycollector
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I don't have a coin to share but this is one of my favorite threads; so here is a coffee factoid. It takes 10 to 12 years for a human being to develop the digestive system necessary to drink coffee. I know this because 3 time in my life, doctors shut down my entire digestive system and nuked all the enzymes that previously existed.
I have been a devoted Tea drinker since the mid 1990's; but I admire everyone who can still drink coffee. I won't even get started on booze........James
Like @seatedlib3991 I also don't have a coin to share this week but this is my favorite thread and I am enjoying my coffee so I'll share one brief anecdote from this week.
I texted a dealer I know fairly well to see if he was planning to bring any coins to the upcoming Baltimore show that might match my wantlist. He responded that he would be bringing a particular coin that would probably sell in the mid-to-upper six figures. I let him know I’d love to have a look, but that it was a bit out of my price range.
He then mentioned that my ~$300k coin was still at CAC but should be back shortly. I let him know that, unfortunately, that wasn’t my coin, at which point he revealed that he was ill and had mixed me up with another client with the same first name.
It made for a good laugh. Have a great Halloween everybody!
chopmarkedtradedollars.com
Newly graded.
Looking for PCGS AU58 Washington's, 32-63.
Greek coin and ring
Good morning, and Happy Halloween Saturday Morning with Coins Crew!
This morning Im drinking my cappuccino with a token (or metallic check as they were called) from Old Boston.
Tremont House Cafe (circa 1890) rev "1"
Aug 26, 1879, The Boston Globe:
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
Have a good weekend all
Happy Sat Gents!
1926 took me one step closer this week to finishing Peace dollar set in MS62 - MS65 CAC.
Just got...
fka renman95, Sep 2005, 7,000 posts
Well, it isn't Saturday morning anymore, but it's still Saturday, and now that I'm home I just read through today's posts.
This thread, as many probably know, is absolutely my favorite recurring thread, and I hate to miss it in the morning.
But today my morning was a little different ... even if I did eventually have coffee and I was thinking about coins.
.
But let me start yesterday, when after some errands out in town and then inland in Olympia, I drove down to Portland to see my daughter for Taco Friday night (which was also a late celebration with her for my birthday a little over a week ago). Great dinner, great company (a couple of her friends that I have known for quite some tike came over) and just a nice time. After the friends left, my daughter and I traded blows playing Boggle, and she came out on top.
This morning we visited some more, walked the dog, and I finally made it to a Starbucks, which I hungerly sipped as I made my way up the PNNA show.
Well attended and a gorgeous venue, I looked around half the floor before I made it over to @2windy2fish 's table, which he was sharing with two others. @Meltdown was one, and for the life of me I can't remember the other guys handle here on the board. It was the first time I remember meeting him.
Anyway Daryl @2windy2fish had told me a few weeks back that he was bringing a coin for me, and so I was intrigued and wanted to see what he was giving me "first shot" at. Low and behold he had sent me an image prior, and I attributed it, but I didn't put two and two together.
Oh my. Just a lovely original looking, lightly colored dirty girl ... and a DM I didn't already have. Spoiler alert ... I do now!!
Thank you so much Daryl! You're awesome.
Then Brian @Meltdown bought a couple of small cents I had in the for sale box, and we all talked coins (and fishing) for a while before a couple of the Nuts that were at the show found me. In all there were five of us there, but I never got a chance to say Hi to Gawain @carabonnair . I saw him across the room, briefly, but that was it.
Anyway, the other four of us Nuts eventually made it to lunch but not before Daryl called me back to the table to discuss a nice circulated 1812 O-106a that he was offering for sale to another customer, and then Brian pulled out two well worn CBH's.
Both of those were nice, but maybe just AG in grade, yet wholesome, unmolested examples. The first was an 1811 (I think), and the second was an 1832. When I picked up the 1832, I thought to myself, Wouldn't that be cool if it was a O-101? And I'll be! When I flipped it over it was obvious, even if the crack was only discernable due to the way it protected the field in the "armpit of the wing" with a sharp ridge. Anyway, it was quite fantastic and I should have taken a picture because it is certainly the lowest grade 32-101 I have ever seen, and was really cool as such.
Lunch was good, and each of the four of us had a new coin to bring home ... so the show, in that respect, was a rousing success. One also brough a box of show and tell, and I was floored. Well, not really because he has awesome coins, but still. Original, old school kraft envelope grey-russet-tan dirt P58cac's (mostly) in very difficult dates and DM's. Just wonderful.
More coffee on the way home to keep me going, and here I am rambling away ... as much of a Show Report as a Saturday Morning Coffee with Coins bent ... but alas, I'm late ... and this is what you get!
.
Oh, yeah ... that coin Daryl saved for me?
An 1824 O-116 with a lovely doubled profile and quite attractive surfaces. I'll get closeups later, but that isn't happening tonight.
.
Hope you all had a great Saturday!!
“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
Busy day today and I didn't get to check in this morning... hoping everyone had a great day with coffee coins and Halloween candy...
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missed Saturday - oh well - see ya next week....
Missed Saturday.....
my cointribution for Sunday
Very fitting!
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Yep, I talked to a couple other "nuts" - sorry I missed chatting with you. A productive show for me, but it took a day and a half to even visit all the tables! Forgot to get a photo of coffee at the hotel restaurant where you could meet most of the PNNA dealers at breakfast.
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