1851-C $1 - update 18 months later (May 31, 2012)!

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• GoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭

  January 11, 2011 8:55AM

  choice AU, assuming there aren't problems that don't show in the photos.

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• Weiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 11, 2011 8:57AM

  Thanks, goldeneye. How distracting is that ding at 6:00? That's a pretty accurate likeness--remember this is about 100x actual size

  We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
  --Severian the Lame
  

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• PerryHall Posts: 46,640 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 11, 2011 9:02AM

  Check the edge. Many small gold coins have had loops expertly removed since they were popular for jewelry. From what I can see in your pics, it appears to be a nice AU50 and well worth the expense to get it slabbed.

  Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
  "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
  "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 11, 2011 9:09AM

  Very nice acquisition.... Cheers, RickO

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• GoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭

  January 11, 2011 9:09AM

  
  
  << <i>Thanks, goldeneye. How distracting is that ding at 6:00? That's a pretty accurate likeness--remember this is about 100x actual size >>
  
  
  
  it appears to be a small strike-thru. I wouldn't worry about it.

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• Weiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 11, 2011 9:15AM

  Thanks, guys. My dealer got it from a walk-in a few minutes before I got there. An old woman selling her mother's collection. He said she almost cried when he explained what the "C" meant, both in terms of mintmark and value. She assumed it was worth very little because of its size. He paid her well and offered to send it in for me with his next submission. I might just do that.

  We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
  --Severian the Lame
  

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• crazyhounddog Posts: 14,029 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 11, 2011 9:16AM

  Looks okay by the imaging, and this little bugger is quite rare. Go for what ya know....

  The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.

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• ambro51 Posts: 13,923 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 11, 2011 9:51AM

  I like it a whole lot and I'm grading it MS61 based on no visible wear on the extreme high points of the hair both by the headband and on the actual highest point if the hair on the bottom curl at the base of the bust

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• pakasmom Posts: 1,920 ✭

  January 11, 2011 9:56AM

  
  
  << <i> He said she almost cried when he explained what the "C" meant, both in terms of mintmark and value. She assumed it was worth very little because of its size. He paid her well and offered to send it in for me with his next submission. >>
  
  
  
  Nice coin and an even nicer dealer. Congrats on both counts.

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• BillJones Posts: 34,617 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 11, 2011 9:57AM

  So long as there is nothing on the edge that indicates a mount, you did fine. It looks like an AU-50 to me.
  
  I recently bought the same date in PCGS MS-63. Your coin is an eariler die state than my piece which is a plus for your coin. Here's a picture of my piece.
  
  

  Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?

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• Weiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 11, 2011 10:05AM

  Wow! That's a beauty, Bill!
  
  Trade?

  We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
  --Severian the Lame
  

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• ambro51 Posts: 13,923 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 11, 2011 12:03PM

  Heres mine, PCGS AU55 CAC
  
  

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• renman95 Posts: 7,037 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 11, 2011 12:10PM

  
  
  << <i>Buying raw gold is like anonymous casual sex without a condom.
  
  But when you have an addiction...
  
  ///
  
  Are we still talking coins?
  
  Nice "pick up."

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• Frankcoins Posts: 4,571 ✭✭✭

  January 11, 2011 2:57PM

  
  
  << <i>I like it a whole lot and I'm grading it MS61 based on no visible wear on the extreme high points of the hair both by the headband and on the actual highest point if the hair on the bottom curl at the base of the bust >>
  
  
  
  Technically EF45 but it should grade AU50, maybe AU53. Lots of rub shows in the photo.

  Frank Provasek - PCGS Authorized Dealer, Life Member ANA, Member TNA. www.frankcoins.com

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• lordmarcovan Posts: 43,673 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 11, 2011 3:33PM

  Here's mine.
  
  
  
  
  PS- looks like a nice pickup, Weiss.
  
  I'm still more impressed with your avatar, though.

  
  
  

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• BillJones Posts: 34,617 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 11, 2011 11:33PM

  
  
  << <i>Here's mine.
  
  
  
  
  PS- looks like a nice pickup, Weiss.
  
  I'm still more impressed with your avatar, though. >>
  
  
  
  It's a good thing they didn't put the hole a little further to the left!

  Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?

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• ColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 12, 2011 6:35AM

  crusty 53-55

  "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Geo. Orwell

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• Weiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 31, 2012 7:33AM

  I decided a few months back to concentrate on a box of 20 rather than my 40-years of hodge-podge collecting. In so doing I decided it was time to send in my very first submission to a TPG. I chose across the street because I had some GSA dollars I wanted to submit prior to sale and I liked the band style better.
  
  So with baited breath I submitted my first stack a few weeks back. And was absolutely stoked over the results:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Again, I bought this raw for a few hundred dollars. Coinfacts says fewer than 600 pieces survive across all grades.
  
  I didn't acetone it before I submitted it, and the images within the slab give a better idea of the crustiness the coin has vs. my raw shots with too much light on them. You can also see some of the coin's luster. And remember, these shots show the coin the size of a CD ROM. In real life it's the size of your pinky finger.
  
  I hadn't noticed the die rotation, either. I think that's kinda cool.
  
  
  I submitted another gold coin I'd gotten raw that I'd show on the boards almost two years ago to the day:
  
  
  
  1914 $20 Saint grade revealed

  We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
  --Severian the Lame
  

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• VMRCC Posts: 79

  May 31, 2012 9:01AM

  
  
  << <i> was absolutely stoked over the results:
  
  
  Again, I bought this raw for a few hundred dollars. >>
  
  
  
  
  I'd be absolutely stoked too! Congrats!

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• dizzyfoxx Posts: 9,823 ✭✭✭

  May 31, 2012 9:16AM

  Excellent. Nice score! I guess buying raw vintage gold isn't always like juggling pin-pulled hand grenades.

  ...There's always time for coin collecting.

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• coinkat Posts: 23,682 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 31, 2012 9:47AM

  congrats

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• steveben Posts: 4,624 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 31, 2012 10:20AM

  nice coin!

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