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WOW Adrian! Now THIS is an amazing coin...! How can something have stayed so nice for so long?!

TheLiberatorTheLiberator Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭
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Drool......

Link to the cleanest proof barber you have ever seen!

Original color or not, I would take this is a heartbeat!

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  • ss350camaross350camaro Posts: 4,529 ✭
    AMAZING !!!

  • NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 11,036 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow that is one very sweet proof barber half.
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 45,020 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>How can something have stayed so nice for so long?! >>



    Not that long.

    He struck it in his basement last week. image

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

  • rmossrmoss Posts: 644
    Astolutely amazing.

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    Oscar Wilde

    Collect for the love of the hobby, the beauty of the coins, and enjoy the ride.

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  • rcmlgm89rcmlgm89 Posts: 546
    Very niceimageI would buy it in a second if it were only a 1898image


    My 1898 set
    martin25
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    [IMG]">1898 Proof Set
  • ccexccex Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Drool......

    Link to the cleanest proof barber you have ever seen!

    Original color or not, I would take this is a heartbeat! >>



    Thus seller made me drool for couple of years with a lengthy and oft-repeated eBay description of a proof Barber Half, in which he made us imagine a convention of all graded proof Barber Halves, enumerating the number of tables of PR-65, PR-66 etc. until one made it to the small display case of coins comparable to his.

    Now that he has hired someone to write more concise (and less entertaining) descriptions of his droolworthy coins, I wonder if it would be less expensive to buy this or to pay a group of doctors to keep my heartbeat pounding regularly after I've agreed to put my money where why drooling mouth was before I mortgaged away my wife's nest egg.
    "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity" - Hanlon's Razor
  • USCUSC Posts: 183
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    WOW. I would love to see this one in person.

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  • MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,192 ✭✭✭✭
    If I had a million dollars to spend on coins...

    Anaconda would get most of it.

    Wow, what a coin. The rest of his inventory aren't slouches either.

    Have fun...Mike
    Collector of Large Cents, US Type, and modern pocket change.
  • NewmismatistNewmismatist Posts: 1,802 ✭✭


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    WOW. I would love to see this one in person. >>



    Held it in my hand in Chicago 2 weeks ago - got to compare it with a PCGS 1897 PF68DCam - the NGC coin was just a touch better - I think they came off the dies 1, then the other - Phenominal coin!
    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
  • MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    It's a shame that only rich people get to enjoy coins like that....... image
    My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable !
  • TheLiberatorTheLiberator Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭
    Yeah, I know what you mean! image
  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,277 ✭✭✭
    WOW!

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  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    According to Russ, if it's not in a PCGS holder it MUST be grossly overgraded!!!

    Great looking coin!!!
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>According to Russ, if it's not in a PCGS holder it MUST be grossly overgraded!!! >>



    That's only the stuff you submit.

    Russ, NCNE
    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
  • AccentonCoinsAccentonCoins Posts: 40
    If it were not in a slab i would not beleive it, stunning coin!
    Owner of Acccent on Coins, located in Everett, Washington. ANA #R3120661
  • BowTieCoins2BowTieCoins2 Posts: 637
    Wow!
  • KurtHornKurtHorn Posts: 1,382 ✭
    Anaconda always has great stuff. Bravo Brandon and Adrian!
    "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." - William Faulkner
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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 35,779 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great coin, but a price of $88,500, will keep most all of the riff-faff out of the neighborhood.
    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • TahoeDaleTahoeDale Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭
    NGC has graded several Barber halves in Proof 69, but this may be the only Ultra cameo.

    Does anyone know if the other 69's have sold at auction, and the price realized?

    We are in no man's land on grade, and the market for such a great coin is limited to a few collectors who really have the bucks and ego to go with their bucks.

    But it may be worth as much as a 1909-SVDB in 67 !!!!!!

    Edit: Hugon's 1901 in 69 Cameo * hammered for $37,500 in Jan 2005.
    TahoeDale
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 35,779 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes, if I had a choice between the 1909-S-VDB and this Barber half dollar, I'd take the half dollar in a heartbeat. image
    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Same here..And that coin leaves me ..breathless.
    Al
  • TorinoCobra71TorinoCobra71 Posts: 8,093 ✭✭✭
    Where's my DROOL bucket!?!?!? That is one lovely coin!!

    TorinoCobra71

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  • FatManFatMan Posts: 8,977 ✭
    That Miss Liberty sure is one ugly guy. But that aside, sweet coin.image
  • NGENhunterNGENhunter Posts: 16
    Thats not only a great coin but wonderful photography as well. I long for the day when my pics look even close to that.
    Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
    - Groucho Marx
  • ROBERTBROBERTB Posts: 1,016
    OMG!! I think I speak for most of us when I say that that's a dream coin any of us would take in a minutw if we were millionaires.
    Everything I write is my opinion.

    Looking for alot of crap.
  • prooflikeprooflike Posts: 3,879 ✭✭
    That is really nice & exceptional.

    Amazing... all these years and no marks!
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  • razorface1027razorface1027 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭
    It's just too damn gorgeous to be real. Stunning, simply stunning!image



    Tom
    What is money, in reality, but dirty pieces of paper and metal upon which privilege is stamped?

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