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Once in a great while a "dream coin" comes along...

RYKRYK Posts: 35,801 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Coutesy of the Gold Rush Gallery with a huge assist from board member "Dahlonega".
My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132

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    ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,669 ✭✭✭
    mmm... [Homer Simpson drool]Dahlonega gold....[/Homer Simpson drool]
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    LouisLouis Posts: 3,687
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    WOW, congrats. image

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    ursabearursabear Posts: 1,888 ✭
    RYK,

    WOW. Fabulous (NGC?)

    Could you please tell me more about it. I must admit I am unschooled WRT Dahlonega mint coins. I'd sincerely like to learn more.
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    boiler78boiler78 Posts: 3,118 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow! Tough coin. Congratulations.image
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    coinguy89coinguy89 Posts: 2,151
    Nice coin, I would love to get a nice gold coin like that some day.image
    Scott Hopkins
    -YN Currently Collecting & Researching Colonial World Coins, Especially Spanish Coins, With a Great Interest in WWII Militaria.

    My Ebay!
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    WondoWondo Posts: 2,916 ✭✭✭
    Ryk,

    It's worth it!!

    Congrats! image
    Wondo

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    granddadgranddad Posts: 966 ✭
    Very nice coin. Congrats! I am waiting for my 57-D to return from PCGS. Should be here next week.

    Louis


    P.S. They must have pressed that baby just before the rebels marched in and occupied the mint.
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    puffpuff Posts: 1,475
    Congrats RYK super coin!image
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    tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,650 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Early Dollar Set
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    JrGMan2004JrGMan2004 Posts: 7,557 ✭
    Now taking bets for how long it takes for RYK's wife to beat the snot out of him!! image
    -George
    42/92
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    RYKRYK Posts: 35,801 ✭✭✭✭✭
    For those who inquired, the 1861-D is the rarest, and probably most interesting, Dahlonega half eagle. Of the 1597 coins struck by the US government, and an unknown quantity struck by the Confederate government, about 65-75 are believed to exist. At the AU level and above, there are on the order of 20-25 coins. My new coin has a typical weak strike for the date, typically abraded surfaces, but more original than most.

    My coin is an NGC-50 holder.

    Now taking bets for how long it takes for RYK's wife to beat the snot out of him!!

    JrGMan, I better just leave that at, "No comment."
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
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    ursabearursabear Posts: 1,888 ✭
    RYK,

    Thank you for the answer! That was just for what I was looking.
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    SPEEDracerSPEEDracer Posts: 207
    First, very nice coin. I am jealous! image



    << <i>Now taking bets for how long it takes for RYK's wife to beat the snot out of him!! image >>



    I don't know about RYK's wife...but mine would have a frying pan over my head the second I pressed the "Submit" button.
    "You must love soldiers in order to understand them, and understand them in order to lead them."
    -Henri Turenne


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    oldcameoproofsguyoldcameoproofsguy Posts: 3,174 ✭
    That's awesome!
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    StuartStuart Posts: 9,831 ✭✭✭✭✭
    RYK: Congratulations on your new Dahlonega Half Eagle!!

    I can relate to your excitement over a really special Gold Coin. Today I just received this coin in the mail and it has gorgeous highly lustrous nearly Semi-PL surfaces with tons of cartwheel luster.

    This is my first high grade CC $20 Liberty, so she's very special to me. She's got a lot of CC Morgans to keep her company and a few other $20 Libs & Saints image

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    Stuart

    Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal

    "Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
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    tjkilliantjkillian Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭
    That is sooo cool!!! Congratulations!! That is also my dream coin. Now that is a dream coin. Please send it to me when you are finished, preferably tonight.

    Tom
    Tom

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    MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,741 ✭✭✭✭✭
    about 65-75 are believed to exist. At the AU level and above, there are on the order of 20-25 coins

    Interesting. My impression was that fewer were known in AU and up, and more were known in lower grades. What do the pop reports say?
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
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    ms70ms70 Posts: 13,958 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congrats RYK! That is a coin purchase that warrants very big celebration!

    Enjoy it to the utmost!
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    RYKRYK Posts: 35,801 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What do the pop reports say?

    image Pop Reports? image

    On a serious note, I was using Doug Winter's updated reference on the subject and fudged the number to account for a couple of recently made pieces that I am aware of. Actually, though the 61-D is the rarest overall, it is the fourth rarest in AU/MS, so there are a disproportionately high number in higher grade.
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
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    orevilleoreville Posts: 12,310 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cool!
    A Collectors Universe poster since 1997!

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