Are Pistareens all relatively inexpensive for their rarity, age, and quality?
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I was taking a look at the website of an excessively prominent coin dealering outfit. I found the item linked below, and was shocked at how dirt, dirt cheap the item was.
Does anyone know if Pistareens are all so inexpensive, particularly ones that are so old and in such high grade? Or is this coin a relatively common Pistareen? Is this an unexplored area of numismatics, or one that is about as lively as Ike dollars?
Here is the link. Perhaps somone can post the picture for reference for me. Coin link
Does anyone know if Pistareens are all so inexpensive, particularly ones that are so old and in such high grade? Or is this coin a relatively common Pistareen? Is this an unexplored area of numismatics, or one that is about as lively as Ike dollars?
Here is the link. Perhaps somone can post the picture for reference for me. Coin link
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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Blasphemy!
Wow! How often do these turn up? In that grade?
That one just won't quite fit in my type collection.
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Just beware of the 19.5% buyers fee. And of course the fact that there are no photos on the lots, so unless you live in SoCal, you are out of luck.
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<< <i>plenty available in mint state also. >>
Please post some images of original mint state Pistareens.
<< <i>That isn't an exceptionally high grade and that is a reguar retail price. It's a nice coin no doubt, but on the high-ish (but not out of line) end of what you would expect to pay for them, plenty available in mint state also. Remember the Spanish were awash in silver from plundering the new world at that time, and the entire world used or accepted Spanish Reales. Sort of the 18th C. equivelent of Morgan Dollars as far as mintages although there are some very scarce dates and mints. >>
A coin from 1719 in AU 55. High grade in my book.
Never seen one in mint state, where would you find one?
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<< <i>Please post some images of original mint state Pistareens. >>
I personally don't collect them so don't have any images, but I have seen plenty of them over the years. Not to get into a pissing contest but my definition of plentiful is probably far different than yours, and I really don't have the inclination to argue what "original" means to you. If 1-2 come up every year at auction or in shows that's plentiful and collectible to me, if you have to wait to find one every 5 years or so then that is a tough coin. Have a look at the NYINC show in January, there will most likely be some there, although I'll be looking at German States proof minors and British stuff myself.
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I have seen a lot of 18th century Mexican silver, and most of it looks like it was salvaged from the Atrocious.
Was that the gold and slave galleon owned by the Spanish Inquisition? I read that it sank during hurricane Perfidy in the 18th century.