Have you ever seen a PL Isabella 25c?

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• ss350camaro Posts: 4,529

  April 26, 2005 7:46AM

  
  
  << <i>1893 ISABELLA QUARTER ANACS CERTIFIED GEM PROOFLIKE BU
  
  This doesn't really look PL, but I'll defer to ANACS on it >>
  
  
  
  
  
  I thought MS65 and above was considered "Gem" ? or is it any MS grade ?
  
  
  

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• Russ Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭

  April 26, 2005 7:49AM

  This seller is a slimeball who's on his way to a NARU.
  
  Russ, NCNE

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• flaminio Posts: 5,664 ✭✭✭

  April 26, 2005 7:50AM

  Bad scans. Scanners are crap for imaging shiny coins -- and I should know, as I've used my scanner lots, and they all look bad in comparison to the Real Thing.
  
  That said, MS62 is not such a great grade for Izzies, and I'd seek out a 64 or better.

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• relayer Posts: 10,570 ✭

  April 26, 2005 7:52AM

  These were, btw, the first US coins to be minted soley for collectors
  
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  Quoting from Uncle John's Ahh-Inspiring Bathroom Reader
  
  Coin collecting was so popular in the late 19th century that the U.S. Government issued two coins just for collectors: the Columbian half-dollar of 1892 and the Isabella quarter of 1893. Both coins marked the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus. The portrait of Queen Isabella of Spain was the first foreign Monarch on an American coin
  
  I knew there was some kind of first in there
  
  It was however, the first Business Strike minted just for collectors

  
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• dorkkarl Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭

  April 26, 2005 9:05PM

  there are numerous pl examples of the isabella in my experience.
  
  K S

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• mozin Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭

  April 27, 2005 5:07AM

  Contrary to what this finderskeepersofomaha seller says this is where he bought it http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3956164324
  
  The many PLs I bought from the original eBay seller Tashaercole were very nice, but they were all NGC. This ANACS coin could also be just fine for the grade listed based on Tashaercole's description but I think the coin likely worth around $500, well below the current reserve. The price jump to MS63PL is double. In my opinion NGC's grading of early commems in PL is more inconsistent than non-PL grades. One of my Isabella MS63PLs blows away even my MS64PL.
  
  Personally, I would not bid on anything from finderskeepersofomaha based on what I have seen on eBay, unanswered email, and what has been said on this forum.

  I collect Capped Bust series by variety in PCGS AU/MS grades.

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• dougwtx Posts: 566 ✭✭

  April 27, 2005 5:16AM

  Mike Billy had this one also on eBay. He is now NARU'd for some reason.
  NGC MS61PL Isabella
  

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• flaminio Posts: 5,664 ✭✭✭

  April 27, 2005 5:41AM

  
  
  << <i>Contrary to what this finderskeepersofomaha seller says this is where he bought it http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3956164324 >>
  
  Nice catch! Link. Bought in the 1960s, eh? I emaled finderskeepersofomaha and asked, gently, WTF? We'll see if he has the stones to reply.

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