The Prescott Collection Auction is up on the ANR site..
Longacre
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Always took candy from strangers
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
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A number of the early large cents were fantastic and worth a look even if you are not a buyer for such items.
When I saw first saw that blazing RD 1803 the word 'unfathomable' kept popping into my head. Gives you a pretty good idea what these coins looked like as they left the mint 200 years ago.
That 1801 S-254 in full mint red is ridiculous! The first thing from my lips when I saw it was an expletive. In describing it, I tried to muster a word that showed just how incredible it was: silly, stoopid, amazing, fan-freakin'-tastic, supercalifragilistickexpialidotious, but nothing worked. I think I settled on "full blazing mint red."
That large cent has two of the best pedigree lines of any coin in existence: discovery in an old New England desk with a few other bright mint red large cents, and a role at the Great Ho-Ho-Kus Pool Table Swap of 1986. Imagine, a couple of scotches, maybe some smoke, a pool table, two collectors with interesting personalities and a love of large cents, and several million bucks worth of the finest large cents on earth getting horse traded. It's the kind of scene someone should write a movie script about.
To anyone who thinks EAC grading is just stringent and not utterly different, EACers call that coin MS-67 while PCGS called it MS-64 RD. I just call it magnificent.
Betts medals, colonial coins, US Mint medals, foreign coins found in early America, and other numismatic Americana
<< <i>Imagine, a couple of scotches, maybe some smoke, a pool table, two collectors with interesting personalities and a love of large cents, and several million bucks worth of the finest large cents on earth getting horse traded. It's the kind of scene someone should write a movie script about. >>
I'm not picturing a lot of young guys bringing dates to this movie.