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1909VDB MPL cent-highest graded by PCGS gets the
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GOLD! 
This coin is a member of the stunning McCullagh Collection of MPL cents in the PCGS Set Registry. You can view all of the coins by clicking the link below.
McCullagh MPL Cent Collection
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This coin is a member of the stunning McCullagh Collection of MPL cents in the PCGS Set Registry. You can view all of the coins by clicking the link below.
McCullagh MPL Cent Collection
Image by BluCC Photos
Brian Wagner Rare Coins, Specializing in PCGS graded, Shield, Liberty and Buffalo Nickels varieties.
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...ABSOLUTELY SUPERB!!!!!!!!
JH
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Lance.
<< <i>Was this the coin that was once in a NGC PR68 holder? >>
Seems to be.
Lance.
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MPL's - Lincolns of Color
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Some people have ALL the luck & money!!
<< <i>Incredible. Should have crossed at the same grade in the first place. I'd leave it with the "Gold" now. >>
Yeah... finest known is finest known regardless.
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
MJ
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
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Why couldn't PCGS just cross the coin? I've seen it in person, the thing walks and talks. There is not a single blemish. The colors are just out of this world.
Recipient of the coveted "You Suck" award, April 2009 for cherrypicking a 1833 CBHD LM-5, and April 2022 for a 1835 LM-12, and again in Aug 2012 for picking off a 1952 FS-902.
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Why couldn't PCGS just cross the coin? I've seen it in person, the thing walks and talks. There is not a single blemish. The colors are just out of this world.>>
Actually DaveE, I recently had the opportunity to ask David Hall the very question. He told me it doesn't matter whether it is in a PCGS 67+ or 68 holder, it is the finest MPL in existence...
While I could possibly resubmit for regrade at some point in the future, you really don't want to expose any copper coin to the elements unless absoluteely necessary.
Jonathan
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
<< <i>I'm curious - what is the provenance of this coin (if known) - do we know it's chain of ownership from issue to present? >>
From Coinfacts:
"The PCGS PR67+RB 1909 V.D.B Proof Lincoln cent is a significant coin as it is believed to have been owned by John Story Jenks. Jenks was a coin collector from 1850 (when he was 11 years old) through 1919. He collected coins passionately for 69 years. He met Henry Chapman around 1875 and bought exclusively from him thereafter. Henry Chapman was a major coin dealer in Philadelphia who bought many significant collections.
Jenks coin collection was sold in 1921, and at the time it was the largest coin auction in numismatic history. In that auction, two separate 1909 V.D.B. Matte Proof Lincoln cents sold. One of the coins originated from a minor proof set and the second from a silver proof set. After the auction, both 1909 V.D.B. Matte Proof Lincoln cents would then be untraced for 71 years, until the early 1990s, when Eric Steiner acquired the silver proof set through a private treaty Stack's sale and resold this example to Michael Ruben, a noted coin dealer from Maryland.
Sometime in 1993 or 1994, Ruben sold the coin to Evan Gale of Aspen Park Rare coins for under $10,000. In 1999, Gale sold it to a collector represented by Laura Sperber who paid $38,500 for the coin. Sperber's collector would hold on to the coin for 11 years and finally sold it to The McCullagh Collection for a record-breaking price for a regular-issue small cent as mentioned previously...."
<< <i>I'm curious - what is the provenance of this coin (if known) - do we know it's chain of ownership from issue to present? >>
John Story Jenks collection, very picky collector who bought his proof coins directly from the mint.
Graded by NGC around 1992, goes PF68RB*CAC green
Legend/BWRC broker sale March 4, 2010 for $200,000+ to BWRC customer, McCullagh Collection.
McCallagh Collection get's coin graded by PCGS as PR67+RB
coin goes back to CAC and gets the GOLD!
There is more to fill in between the gaps but this is the provenance that takes you from 1909 to date quickly.
It seems to me that NGC had it right to begin with. MJ
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
I hope this is it's final resting place. Even with the stable patina, it would be tragic if anything ever happened to that coin.
<< <i>snip..It seems to me that NGC had it right to begin with. MJ >>
How 'bout that
Your welcome,
Between Mark's and my provenance post you pretty much get the whole story about the coin.
I want to give my customer, the McCullagh Collection, one more plug,
2 of the 8 coins in the collection (we still are looking for a stunning 1911) have been awarded the CAC "GOLD label" the other 6 have GREEN. Here is the other CAC GOLD label MPL cent that is in the collection.
Simply stunning.
Knowledge is the enemy of fear
<< I'm curious - what is the provenance of this coin (if known) - do we know it's chain of ownership from issue to present? >>
From Coinfacts:
"The PCGS PR67+RB 1909 V.D.B Proof Lincoln cent is a significant coin as it is believed to have been owned by John Story Jenks. Jenks was a coin collector from 1850 (when he was 11 years old) through 1919. He collected coins passionately for 69 years. He met Henry Chapman around 1875 and bought exclusively from him thereafter. Henry Chapman was a major coin dealer in Philadelphia who bought many significant collections.
Jenks coin collection was sold in 1921, and at the time it was the largest coin auction in numismatic history. In that auction, two separate 1909 V.D.B. Matte Proof Lincoln cents sold. One of the coins originated from a minor proof set and the second from a silver proof set. After the auction, both 1909 V.D.B. Matte Proof Lincoln cents would then be untraced for 71 years, until the early 1990s, when Eric Steiner acquired the silver proof set through a private treaty Stack's sale and resold this example to Michael Ruben, a noted coin dealer from Maryland.
Sometime in 1993 or 1994, Ruben sold the coin to Evan Gale of Aspen Park Rare coins for under $10,000. In 1999, Gale sold it to a collector represented by Laura Sperber who paid $38,500 for the coin. Sperber's collector would hold on to the coin for 11 years and finally sold it to The McCullagh Collection for a record-breaking price for a regular-issue small cent as mentioned previously...."
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Mark Feld
Mark:
One slight correction (which I have to notify Coiinfacts), Laura Sperber, Legend Numismatics, did not originally purchase the VDB for a customer, but rather for her own collection. Only later did she decide to sell this coin to one of her customers. I also purchased the PCGS 1915 PR66+RB (pop 1/0), mentioned by Brian Wagner, from her and it is included in my Registry Set.
I would like to thank Kevin Flynn for his research on the provenance of the John Story Jenks VDB which is reflected in the Coinfacts story. He spent a lot of time researching this for me.
Jonathan
Great coins btw.
–adjective
1. causing, capable of causing, or liable to cause astonishment, bewilderment, or a loss of consciousness or strength: a stunning blow.
2. of striking beauty or excellence: What a stunning coin you have!
—Synonyms
1. stupefying, numbing, dumbfounding, astounding.
or just WOW!!
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<< <i>I'm curious - what is the provenance of this coin (if known) - do we know it's chain of ownership from issue to present? >>
John Story Jenks collection, very picky collector who bought his proof coins directly from the mint.
Graded by NGC around 1992, goes PF68RB*CAC green
Legend/BWRC broker sale March 4, 2010 for $200,000+ to BWRC customer, McCullagh Collection.
McCallagh Collection get's coin graded by PCGS as PR67+RB
coin goes back to CAC and gets the GOLD!
There is more to fill in between the gaps but this is the provenance that takes you from 1909 to date quickly. >>
Brian,
I have been confused about the fact that NGC has graded TWO 1909VDB MPL's as PF68's. Someone said they are BOTH the SAME coin we are discussing here. You state above that NGC graded the coin in 1992. When did NGC grade it again? And if THIS COIN is NOT the second NGC graded PF68, which one is? Thanks for your input.
Steve
My Complete PROOF Lincoln Cent with Major Varieties(1909-2015)Set Registry
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<< <i>I'm curious - what is the provenance of this coin (if known) - do we know it's chain of ownership from issue to present? >>
John Story Jenks collection, very picky collector who bought his proof coins directly from the mint.
Graded by NGC around 1992, goes PF68RB*CAC green
Legend/BWRC broker sale March 4, 2010 for $200,000+ to BWRC customer, McCullagh Collection.
McCallagh Collection get's coin graded by PCGS as PR67+RB
coin goes back to CAC and gets the GOLD!
There is more to fill in between the gaps but this is the provenance that takes you from 1909 to date quickly. >>
Brian,
I have been confused about the fact that NGC has graded TWO 1909VDB MPL's as PF68's. Someone said they are BOTH the SAME coin we are discussing here. You state above that NGC graded the coin in 1992. When did NGC grade it again? And if THIS COIN is NOT the second NGC graded PF68, which one is? Thanks for your input.
Steve
Steve,
good question,
I believe it is the same coin, allthough I have no way to 100% prove it. Another example has never showed since this one was graded in 1992. Possibly someone cracked it out, sent it back to NGC, got the same grade and kept the old tag? Possibly NGC goofed, I have helped PCGS in the past with some incorrect population figures in their reports, so I know it happens.
Brian
That is something that dreams are made of . . . .
Thanks for the pix. I think I'll retire tonight just to stare at it with a nice single malt Scotch in my hand . .
Drunner
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<< <i>Rich people SUCK! And Jonathan sucks even more. Both pop-1 '09 VDB and 1915 "Finest known"!! YOU SUCK!!
Your gonna think Jonathan sucks even more, look at his 1912 MPL PCGS PR66+RB, it's also a POP 1/0 CAC Green
<< <i>GOLD!
This coin is a member of the stunning McCullagh Collection of MPL cents in the PCGS Set Registry. You can view all of the coins by clicking the link below.
McCullagh MPL Cent Collection
Image by BluCC Photos
That is IMPOSSIBLE!!! A penny for your thoughts!!!!
Super image Todd!!!!
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<< <i>Rich people SUCK! And Jonathan sucks even more. Both pop-1 '09 VDB and 1915 "Finest known"!! YOU SUCK!!
Your gonna think Jonathan sucks even more, look at his 1912 MPL PCGS PR66+RB, it's also a POP 1/0 CAC Green
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