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LeeG and early commemorative collectors...behold this NGC MS67 Grant w/Star "framed by deep iri

GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 17,990 ✭✭✭✭✭
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From Stack's The Samuel Berngard and S.S. New York Collections Auction.


This coin is just crazy gorgeous and such amazing detail!!!....what say you???

LeeG, you need this coin in your collection!!!! image


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Starting Bid: $15,000.00

1922 Grant. With Star. MS-67 (NGC).

This delicate golden specimen is framed by deep iridescent mauve toning at the obverse periphery. Boldly struck, icy-smooth underlying fields and design features are almost entirely free of even the most trivial of microscopic contact marks. Examples of this "key" silver commemorative issue at the lofty grade level offered here are very rare indeed (perhaps 10 or so such specimens are extant), as even survivors at the MS-65 grade are quite challenging to acquire.

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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The coin was in a EBay Store in 2006 or 2007 for $17.5 or $19.5K as I recall image
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • edix2001edix2001 Posts: 3,388 ✭
    I had Frank Van Valen, a cataloger at Stack's, as my instructor (along with David Lange) for "Collecting US Type Coins" during ANA Summer Seminar last week. He had some humorous commentaries about cataloging, like the use of certain words and phrases to either build up or knock down an auction item. Those familiar with his writings were sure to get the message.
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  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 17,990 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The coin was on EBay in 2006 or 2007 for $19.5K >>



    Are you sure???? Samuel Berngard bought this coin on eBay??? image
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yep I'm sure you don't forget a MS67* Grant with Star! image

    I believe seller Pahrump Coins had it posted, as I sent a link to a friend of mine who has one of the top 144pc sets.
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Goldbully, is there a rule you can't buy a coin off EBay if your gonna auction off your collection and try to toss prestige and pedigree all over the place imageimage
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 17,990 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Goldbully, is there a rule you can't buy a coin off EBay if your gonna auction off your collection and try to toss prestige and pedigree all over the place imageimage >>



    Mr. Sam's got quite a nice collection of booty!!!! Mr. Sam is an eBayaholic I guess....probably stops by Russ's auctions too!!! image
  • RegistryCoinRegistryCoin Posts: 5,117 ✭✭✭✭
    Did NGC star this ms67?
  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 17,990 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Did NGC star this ms67? >>




    No mention here.

    I doubt they *'d it....there would have been mention I'm sure!!! image
  • LeeGLeeG Posts: 12,162 ✭
    Very nice example but way to rich for my blood. I have to settle for this one, MS63 (crack out from ANACS 63): image


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    Some really nice coins in this auction! image
  • jmj3esqjmj3esq Posts: 5,421 ✭
    I love it, need it, and cant afford it.image
  • sparky64sparky64 Posts: 7,048 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks for showing Goldbully.
    That one has that eye appeal thing going on.

    "If I say something in the woods and my wife isn't there to hear it.....am I still wrong?"

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  • TavernTreasuresTavernTreasures Posts: 1,262 ✭✭✭
    Grant liked his seegars. And I can almost see him smoking one.
    Advanced collector of BREWERIANA. Early beer advertising (beer cans, tap knobs, foam scrapers, trays, tin signs, lithos, paper, etc)....My first love...U.S. COINS!
  • richardshipprichardshipp Posts: 5,647 ✭✭✭
    You can almost count the whiskers... very nice but way out of my league.
  • coinsarefuncoinsarefun Posts: 21,760 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I have to settle for this one, MS63 (crack out from ANACS 63): image


    image


    Some really nice coins in this auction! image >>


















    I'd "settle" for this also Lee image


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  • jmj3esqjmj3esq Posts: 5,421 ✭
    Grant liked his seegars.

    My great, great, grandfathers brother was given a cigar from Grant after the civil war. Its on display in Johnson County, IN.
  • dizzyfoxxdizzyfoxx Posts: 9,823 ✭✭✭
    Probably just the image, but does it have the appearance of taking a dip?image
    image...There's always time for coin collecting. image
  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 17,990 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Probably just the image, but does it have the appearance of taking a dip?image >>




    Don't think so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • fcfc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭
    for some reason i cannot get past looking at the splotch of toning
    by Grant's lips... ugh.

    otherwise i think it is a nice looking coin.
  • lcoopielcoopie Posts: 8,873 ✭✭✭✭✭
    you can get 294 of Lee's coin
    for one of the OP coin



    LCoopie = Les
  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,313 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The toning appears unremarkable to me. Golden with iridescent mauve highlights falls into that category.

    roadrunner
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