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Some times all the hard work and hunting pays off...

MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
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As you all know I am a proof set hound!! Well, it's been tough. Work has kept me from a lot of shows but I still get to look around sometimes. I paid bid for both sets, one as a small date, the other wasn't marked.

1831XXXX 93392 1960 1C Small Date US PR68DC
1836XXXX 93392 1960 1C Small Date US PR68DC
It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

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    STONESTONE Posts: 15,275 ✭
    Very Nice image

    What are the pops for these?
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    melvin289melvin289 Posts: 3,019 ✭
    Good pick up. Congratulations.

    Ron
    Collect for the love of the hobby, the beauty of the coins, and enjoy the ride.
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    fcloudfcloud Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭
    Congrats, Marty, do you have photos?

    President, Racine Numismatic Society 2013-2014; Variety Resource Dimes; See 6/8/12 CDN for my article on Winged Liberty Dimes; Ebay

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    ChrisRxChrisRx Posts: 5,619 ✭✭✭✭
    WHAT DOES THIS MEAN!?!?!
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    TevaTeva Posts: 830 ✭
    Nice eye! Did you pick them both up at the same time same place?
    Give the laziest man the toughest job and he will find the easiest way to get it done.
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    MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Nice eye! Did you pick them both up at the same time same place? >>



    No, one from a dealer in FLA, the other at a show here in IL. According to the pops, I made #21 and #22 (there are no 69s). So I don't know how many have been cracked out and resubmitted.
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

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    ChrisRxChrisRx Posts: 5,619 ✭✭✭✭
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    JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hey Marty
    How the heck have you been?

    That is a major major score on a really tough DCAM in that grade.
    Not one but two!
    Nice
    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
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    CoinCrazyPACoinCrazyPA Posts: 2,899 ✭✭✭✭
    Congrats's on your grades, Mike
    Positive BST transactions: agentjim007, cohodk, CharlieC, Chrischampeon, DRG, 3 x delistamps, djdilliodon, gmherps13, jmski52, Meltdown, Mesquite, 2 x nibanny, themaster, 2 x segoja, Timbuk3, ve3rules, jom, Blackhawk, hchcoin, Relaxn, pitboss, blu62vette, Jfoot13, Jinx86, jfoot13,Ronb

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    WaterSportWaterSport Posts: 7,046 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow! You DOUBLE SUCK! UFB.

    WS
    Proud recipient of the coveted PCGS Forum "You Suck" Award Thursday July 19, 2007 11:33 PM and December 30th, 2011 at 8:50 PM.
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    ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What happened to the DCAM 64 AH and DCAM 65, 66, and 67 SMS Kennedies? Did you and Russ find them all?
    *For Sale on Ebay*
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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Good score on both.... Cheers, RickO
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    MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭


    << <i>What happened to the DCAM 64 AH and DCAM 65, 66, and 67 SMS Kennedies? Did you and Russ find them all? >>



    Just finding proof sets with Cameo coins is getting harder and harder.. With silver climbing maybe it will bring more sets out of the woodwork. Problem is any sets that hit the "Cash for gold" are going to be lost forever!!!

    Now should we tell cheezhed this is how to SUCK!!! 2 sets for under $25 each and each one sells for over $3500!!
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

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    coinkid855coinkid855 Posts: 5,012 ✭✭✭
    Dang! Nice job Marty! Congrats!!




    -Paul
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    cheezhedcheezhed Posts: 6,324 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>What happened to the DCAM 64 AH and DCAM 65, 66, and 67 SMS Kennedies? Did you and Russ find them all? >>



    Just finding proof sets with Cameo coins is getting harder and harder.. With silver climbing maybe it will bring more sets out of the woodwork. Problem is any sets that hit the "Cash for gold" are going to be lost forever!!!

    Now should we tell cheezhed this is how to SUCK!!! 2 sets for under $25 each and each one sells for over $3500!! >>



    LOL

    You suck!!!

    I'm just a small time collector of very modest means and my pick got me pretty excited and am still happy about it.

    Many happy BST transactions
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    MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    Most real YOU SUCKS!! are made by small time collectors!!

    Heath buying a $5 SMS set and getting a MS68DCAM Kennedys
    Russ buying a $10 proof set with a PR68DCAM AH Kennedy

    ect...
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

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    YogiBerraFanYogiBerraFan Posts: 2,390 ✭✭
    Fruits of the hunt, great job!
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    krankykranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭
    WTG, Marty! I have great respect for you guys who put in a lot of legwork to find the gems.

    Do you ever wonder how many sets you've looked at more than once? I would imagine if you go to John Doe's table 6 months after you last checked his stuff, you have to look at everything just in case.

    New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.

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    MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭


    << <i>WTG, Marty! I have great respect for you guys who put in a lot of legwork to find the gems.

    Do you ever wonder how many sets you've looked at more than once? I would imagine if you go to John Doe's table 6 months after you last checked his stuff, you have to look at everything just in case. >>



    I have a dealer in WI who has a lot of sets, he lets me mark them so I don't keep looking though the same ones again and again. But I'm sure there are sets I have seen 3 or 4 times. Part of the hunt!!!
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

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    SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 13,039 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Marty, I am so glad that you live in the eastern half of the USA.

    If you lived in California or other parts of the Western US I would never find anything good because you would provide too much competitionimage

    Since you are not out west, that leaves a few cherries around for me to harvest [I recently picked up a 1957 proof set in OGP for $20.00 that contains a brilliant half, a quarter with a DCAM obverse and CAM reverse, a dime with a two sided Cameo appearance, a nickel with a two sided Cameo appearance and a Cameo cent].

    The quarter is the best I have ever found. It looks like the plate coin on the cover of Rick Tomaska's book on 1950-70 Cameo proof and SMS coins.
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    tmot99tmot99 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭
    Nice!
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    DD Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Most real YOU SUCKS!! are made by small time collectors!!

    Heath buying a $5 SMS set and getting a MS68DCAM Kennedys
    Russ buying a $10 proof set with a PR68DCAM AH Kennedy

    ect... >>



    What do those go for? image

    -D
    "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

    -Aristotle

    Dum loquimur fugerit invida aetas. Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero.

    -Horace
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    waltscoinswaltscoins Posts: 55
    Great pickup
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    ChangeInHistoryChangeInHistory Posts: 3,112 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice score, as always.

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