Teamed up with illini420 for some long distance cherry pickin' in California!
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Spotted a couple of rpm possibilities in the Heritage ANA auction last month. I new that illini420 was looking for an 09-s/s FS-1501 Lincoln and I had my eye on an 11-s/s FS-501.
He was gracious enough attend the show and then call me with his findings after reviewing the coins in hand before the Heritage auction. Turns out both coins were the rpm's
we were looking for. Both were able to win our auctions and have since had them attributed. Thanks again Mike!!!
PCGS MS64RB FS-501 pop 4/0 with 0 in Red.
He was gracious enough attend the show and then call me with his findings after reviewing the coins in hand before the Heritage auction. Turns out both coins were the rpm's
we were looking for. Both were able to win our auctions and have since had them attributed. Thanks again Mike!!!
PCGS MS64RB FS-501 pop 4/0 with 0 in Red.
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Here are the Heritage photos of the coin:
Here are my pics of the coin in it's new slab (not sure why they didn't keep the same cert no.):
A few closer shots of the coin:
An attempt at a close up shot of the S/S RPM:
Definitely plan on sending it out for a professional photo one of these days
I'm very happy that Mel and I were able to each get a really tough RPM for our collections and were both able to win them at reasonable prices. It was really fun to be at the lot viewing with the Cherrypicker's guide in hand confirming both were the real deal! Even with my 10x loupe the varieties can sometimes be hard to confirm for sure, but these weren't too difficult. Might need to invest in a 20x!!
Anyways, here's the small set I'm working on now that now includes the 1909-S/S FS-1501:
United States Copper of 1909
Still need to do some work on photos and descriptions of the coins and still have a few coins to add for it to be complete, but it's a fun set to put together
Michael Kittle Rare Coins --- 1908-S Indian Head Cent Grading Set --- No. 1 1909 Mint Set --- Kittlecoins on Facebook --- Long Beach Table 448
<< <i>Illini420 is a great guy, always very nice and helpful in my experience with him. >>
Haha, you're just trying to butter me up and get me to sell you some more cool stuff
Michael Kittle Rare Coins --- 1908-S Indian Head Cent Grading Set --- No. 1 1909 Mint Set --- Kittlecoins on Facebook --- Long Beach Table 448
Well when I got the coin back the return form had my post it note stuck to it with no mention of a photo. Checked CoinFacts for the next week or so and nothing... I figured oh well, too bad for them then.
Anyways, was browsing CoinFacts today and figured I'd go check out the page for this coin, mostly to see if they updated the pop of the variety in MS64RB from 0 to 1 to reflect my coin getting attributed. To my surprise, I see a big picture of my coin on the page and a close up of the RPM, very very cool by PCGS to actually read my note and act on it. It's just too bad I wasn't made aware of it somehow, but I'll take the surprise without any further complaint
Here's a small image of the coin by PCGS (the super big version is on CoinFacts):
And here's their close up shot of the RPM which is up on CoinFacts:
Wow again, thanks PCGS!!! I really can't wait for PCGS to get quality photos like this of every variety that is out there up onto CoinFacts. Was hesitant about the monthly fee when I first subscribed, but every day it's getting better and becoming more and more of a good deal.
Michael Kittle Rare Coins --- 1908-S Indian Head Cent Grading Set --- No. 1 1909 Mint Set --- Kittlecoins on Facebook --- Long Beach Table 448