Ok who's going to fork out 24K for this 1859 1C die cap?

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• GoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭

  October 23, 2006 11:43AM

  that thing is cool as hell

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• Lakesammman Posts: 17,461 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 23, 2006 11:47AM

  I guess error collectors are a different breed - doesn't do much for me.

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• Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭

  October 23, 2006 12:16PM

  Heritage call it remarkable. What an understatement!

  Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.

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• yellowjacket Posts: 1,809 ✭

  October 23, 2006 12:44PM

  Well, it hasn't reached the reserve yet. It may not sell.
  
  Garrow

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• CaptHenway Posts: 32,789 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 23, 2006 12:47PM

  How many times has that thing appeared at auction in the past thirty years or so?

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• 291fifth Posts: 24,709 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 23, 2006 1:13PM

  
  
  << <i>I guess error collectors are a different breed - doesn't do much for me. >>
  
  
  
  Just a manufacturing error from a factory that makes coins. Doesn't do much for me either.

  All glory is fleeting.

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• Byers Posts: 1,766 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 23, 2006 1:31PM

  Recently a 1862 Indian Cent Obverse Die Cap sold in a different Heritage Auction for $51,750.
  
  
  1862 1C Indian Cent--Obverse Die Cap--MS67 NGC

  mikebyers.com Dealer in Major Mint Errors, Die Trials & Patterns - Author of NLG Best World Coin Book World's Greatest Mint Errors - Publisher & Editor of minterrornews.com.

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