Forum member MS68 was kind enough to let me hold his PCGS MS67FH 1919-S SLQ, shortly after he recovered it after it had been stolen and also his incredibly toned Oregon Trail commem. I had to try very hard not to drool all over them.
1907 Ultra High Relief - I actually held 2 of them in my hands at an ANA show several years ago - those were the most awesome coins I've had the pleasure of fondling - Also, held both varieties of Stellas, Coiled Hair and Flowing Hair, the Amazon Gold pattern set, and maybe the most expensive was the Eliasberg 1870-S $3 Gold - truly a unique coin.
Collecting eye-appealing Proof and MS Indian Head Cents, 1858 Flying Eagle and IHC patterns and beautiful toned coins.
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<< <i>Forum member MS68 was kind enough to let me hold his PCGS MS67FH 1919-S SLQ, shortly after he recovered it after it had been stolen and also his incredibly toned Oregon Trail commem. I had to try very hard not to drool all over them. >>
Dave put me in "charge" of 4 of his toned Comms (including the Oregon) at our 1st Toned Coin Collectors Society meeting at the Pittsburgh ANA - He had to leave the meeting early & asked if I would deliver them back to his table - I did, but I had to go and buy a roll of paper towels to wipe up all the drool on those coins - When I delivered them he asked "What took you so long" - I told him I was looking for some Jewel luster - but unfortunately I couldn't find any so they were still "tarnished"! - He actually looked at them BEFORE he laughed!
Collecting eye-appealing Proof and MS Indian Head Cents, 1858 Flying Eagle and IHC patterns and beautiful toned coins.
“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.” Mark Twain Newmismatist
No actually......it would probably be an 1857 Flying eagle in I believe PR66Cam or it could have been an 1877 IHC MS66RB...both coins I believe belonged to Brian Wagner of BWRC
Hmmmmm, My 1939 D Buffulo Nickel, well ok its a MS Paint modified 38 D Screensaver, a Full Head 1927s SLQ Strong Strike and perfect trully a GEM as well as raw, But the most Valuable Coin I ever held in my Hot Little Hands is a 1964 D Kennedy Half DDO that my Father gave me a few Months after President Kennedy was assasinated, when I was 5 years old and told me not to spend, in fact I'm holding it right now. Funny thing is it was only a few years ago I discovered it was a DDO.
Steve Eastside
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I have been fortunate and profoundly grateful in my professional career as a reporter and later on "The Dark Side of the Force" (PR) to have personally held the following items:
Farouk/Fenton 1933 Double Eagle
Neil/Carter/Contursi 1794 $1 Eliasberg 1804 dollar Child's 1804 dollar Dexter 1804 dollar
King of Siam set
Bebee/McDermott 1913 Liberty nickel Eliasberg/Manley/Lee 1913 Liberty nickel Walton 1913 Liberty nickel
unique punchmark on eagle's breast 1787 Brasher doubloon
specimen 1854 Kellogg $20
a bunch of coins and mighty big ingots from the S.S. Central America, although I could not lift the huge "Eureka" bar.
And the nice folks at the BEP have let me carefully handle the uncut 12-note specimen sheets of $100,000 Series 1934 notes when we're doing on-site news media interviews over the years.
I've been a very lucky coin weenie!
-donn-
"If it happens in numismatics, it's news to me....
According to my Dad, I held a 1913 Liberty nickel some 30+ years ago, ( I was about 5) at a little tiny coin club in Oneida N.Y. Be honest with you, I remember holding a V nickel, couldn't say the date. Dad had said it was a big-time dealer/collector at the time was invited to our little club.
Art Kagin's 1891-O/s dime, a presentation piece. He was asking 30K for it. I can still see that tiny perfect "s" surrounded by the "O." Awesome coin. Art didn't care if it sold or not.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
I'm definitely in the minor leagues here. I think the most expensive coin I've actually held is one of my own -- probably my Lafayette dollar. I've seen some pricey coins -- but I never actually pick them up.
Seen up close the collection at the Smithsonian. Brasher dabloon, etc.
Held in my hand is not so great. It was about 13 years ago. I was looking over some stuff at my local coin shop. A well-dressed couple came in to see a coin my dealer had on hold for them. It was an early dollar, I'm pretty sure it was a 1794. It was in a slab, seems like it was white like NGC, but I'm not sure.
Anyway, I'd just closed on my first rental property. A 3-bedroom, 2 storey house. It was in a rough neighborhood, but I was rehabbing it and the house was coming together nicely. I had paid $12,500 for the house. My dealer was asking $15,000 for the dollar. Holding that dollar in my hand while I still had paint under my nails from the house was intense. All the nails, the screws, the pipes, boards. The attic, the basement, the furnace. The windows and doors. Carpet, paint, and flooring. Stairs, closets, door knobs and switch plates. All of it, all the tons and tons of bricks and boards and shingles, couldn't add up to that little disc of metal in that little plastic case.
We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last. --Severian the Lame
I held an MS67 1792 Half Disme worth 1.7 Million, an MS67 1794 Half Dime that was worth an undisclosed amount, and in 1992, while it was not a coin and I couldn't hold it in my hand, I worked as a contractor for the US Treasury and I got to go on the printing floor at the BEP in Washington. This allowed me to stand right next to a seven or eight foot high pallet of $100 sheets of currency. I figure it was right around $40-60 Million Dollars. I also saw a check for this incredibly large amount in the director of Financial Management Services' office. I can't remember the exact amount but I do remember something close. It was like $1,762,567,435.65 // The cool part was that the check had the line where you write out the amount and it actually took TWO lines of text to write out "One-Billion seven-hundred sixty-two million five-hundred sixty-seven thousand four-hundred thirty-five dollars and 65/100-----------------
Ash Harrison
Ash Harrison
President, Society of Silver Dollar Collectors Governor, National Silver Dollar Roundtable President, Ashmore Rare Coins
Mine was a proof morgan, but the other day...when I was looking at my friends mothers collection (She had no idea what they were). I pulled out an amazing UNc 1850-c $5 gold piece. I almost lost it. I told her a conservative price was about 10k if it was authentic. It looked good to me, but im no gold expert. I was stunned at how pristen it looked.
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shortly after he recovered it after it had been stolen and also his incredibly toned
Oregon Trail commem. I had to try very hard not to drool all over them.
U.S. Nickels Complete Set with Major Varieties, Circulation Strikes
U.S. Dimes Complete Set with Major Varieties, Circulation Strikes
-Daniel
-Aristotle
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-Horace
President, Racine Numismatic Society 2013-2014; Variety Resource Dimes; See 6/8/12 CDN for my article on Winged Liberty Dimes; Ebay
“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.” Mark Twain
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<< <i>Forum member MS68 was kind enough to let me hold his PCGS MS67FH 1919-S SLQ,
shortly after he recovered it after it had been stolen and also his incredibly toned
Oregon Trail commem. I had to try very hard not to drool all over them.
Dave put me in "charge" of 4 of his toned Comms (including the Oregon) at our 1st Toned Coin Collectors Society meeting at the Pittsburgh ANA - He had to leave the meeting early & asked if I would deliver them back to his table - I did, but I had to go and buy a roll of paper towels to wipe up all the drool on those coins - When I delivered them he asked "What took you so long" - I told him I was looking for some Jewel luster - but unfortunately I couldn't find any so they were still "tarnished"! - He actually looked at them BEFORE he laughed!
“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.” Mark Twain
Newmismatist
<< <i>APN seems to be rather enthusiastic about this thread
<< <i>1792 Half Disme. Well, I didn't actually hold the coin but I held the NGC slab that the coin was in
This was going to be my answer too. I've held a couple of them at various grades.
No actually......it would probably be an 1857 Flying eagle in I believe PR66Cam or it could have been an 1877 IHC MS66RB...both coins I believe belonged to Brian Wagner of BWRC
<< <i>Ten 1964 Peace dollars.
<< <i>a 1964 Franklin half
You two are bad!
Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.
Steve
Eastside
Farouk/Fenton 1933 Double Eagle
Neil/Carter/Contursi 1794 $1
Eliasberg 1804 dollar
Child's 1804 dollar
Dexter 1804 dollar
King of Siam set
Bebee/McDermott 1913 Liberty nickel
Eliasberg/Manley/Lee 1913 Liberty nickel
Walton 1913 Liberty nickel
unique punchmark on eagle's breast 1787 Brasher doubloon
specimen 1854 Kellogg $20
a bunch of coins and mighty big ingots from the S.S. Central America, although I could not lift the huge "Eureka" bar.
And the nice folks at the BEP have let me carefully handle the uncut 12-note specimen sheets of $100,000 Series 1934 notes when we're doing on-site news media interviews over the years.
I've been a very lucky coin weenie!
-donn-
A 1916 SLQ MS-66 or 67 FH.
<< <i>MS64BN Fugio Cent and a MS64RB S-VDB (Should've been 65!)
-Daniel >>
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Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
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Held in my hand is not so great. It was about 13 years ago. I was looking over some stuff at my local coin shop. A well-dressed couple came in to see a coin my dealer had on hold for them. It was an early dollar, I'm pretty sure it was a 1794. It was in a slab, seems like it was white like NGC, but I'm not sure.
Anyway, I'd just closed on my first rental property. A 3-bedroom, 2 storey house. It was in a rough neighborhood, but I was rehabbing it and the house was coming together nicely. I had paid $12,500 for the house. My dealer was asking $15,000 for the dollar. Holding that dollar in my hand while I still had paint under my nails from the house was intense. All the nails, the screws, the pipes, boards. The attic, the basement, the furnace. The windows and doors. Carpet, paint, and flooring. Stairs, closets, door knobs and switch plates. All of it, all the tons and tons of bricks and boards and shingles, couldn't add up to that little disc of metal in that little plastic case.
--Severian the Lame
Ash Harrison
President, Society of Silver Dollar Collectors
Governor, National Silver Dollar Roundtable
President, Ashmore Rare Coins
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-Daniel
-Aristotle
Dum loquimur fugerit invida aetas. Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero.
-Horace
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PS- at the same table, I was allowed to hold an AU raw Pan-Pac $50 octagonal. Wow. Talk about heavy.