do you own a Wonder Coin? And, if so, what does it look like?

braddick · December 5, 2009 2:57PM

Pictures would be helpful and much appreciated!

Unknown · December 5, 2009 3:00PM

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braddick · December 5, 2009 3:09PM

True. Most Type 1 1976s are lackluster and flat. Yours has booming luster, especially evident on the obverse.

I've seen 1971-D and 1978-P Ikes with killer luster, but not your 1976.

Raybo · December 5, 2009 3:11PM

I wonder where this coin has been..........................?

wondercoin · December 5, 2009 5:36PM

Very few "Richard Green Coll" Silver Washington slabs remain as most of his set was sold privately and then later resold by Heritage (but before the coins hit the Heritage auction the RG inserts were all changed to regular blue holders for reasons unknown). I was fortunate enough to "cherry-pick" roughly (10) or so coins from the amazing set before all of the remaining coins were sold in tact. This one is technically about as nice a 1943-P quarter as I have ever seen (and much prettier in person). And, for those of you that knew RG, you know that he pursued a "blazing white" set... very unusual for him to keep a toned coin - he only kept a few of the finest he came across over the years.

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BillJones · December 5, 2009 11:03PM

Although I know that a "wonder coin" is supposed to grade MS-67 or higher, this is a wonder coin for me. It is a 1795 Plain Edge (S-76b) large cent in PCGS MS-62, brown which makes it far better than most early cents you will see. The coin is a full Unc., and it even has a trace of red showing above Ms. Liberty's head. Sheldon stated that there are many Mint State examples of this coin, but a fair number of the examples I have seen had mint caused planchet problems that caused me to say that they were less than wonderful. I also noted in the Noyes book that none of the coins that were pictured there were full red. So perhaps no full blown red "wonder coins" exist of this date.

ricko · December 6, 2009 12:02AM

"And, for those of you that knew RG, you know that he pursued a "blazing white" set... very unusual for him to keep a toned coin - he only kept a few of the finest he came across over the years. "

A very discerning collector indeed. Cheers, RickO

SDSportsFan · December 6, 2009 12:52AM

I've owned several wonder coins.

Coins that made me wonder what the hell I was thinking when I paid good money for them!

Steve

JCMhouston · December 6, 2009 2:03AM

This one is pretty wonderful, 1870 A Prussia 1 Silver Groschen in MS68, it's the only one in the entire series so far. But there are a lot of darkside coins yet to be graded.

SkyMan · December 6, 2009 2:47AM

Musky1011 · December 6, 2009 3:02AM

I wonder how wealthy you had to be to carry this around
It is about the size of a morgan dollar
It is my pocket piece

coinbuf · December 6, 2009 3:08AM

NGC ms67rd; I wonder how long this will stay red

do you own a Wonder Coin? And, if so, what does it look like?

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