Walker Proof Digital Album 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......
The ying ... It is truly amazing how expensive Chain Cents have become ...
And the Yang ...
I've always had a "thing" for the first and last large cents. I've owned at least one example of a Chain cent since I was in undergraduate school. My first one was a Chain AMERI. (S-1) in Poor-1. Some might have called it Fair-2, but the date had been given a little "help" to make it readable. There was no doubt that it was a genuine Chain Cent however. I sold it many years ago for $475, whcih was probably too cheep even than.
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 ... ?
The Chain you posted was one of my favorites I ever catalogued, with a provenance as long as my arm.
Benjamin Collins, who owned that piece from 1891 to 1919, probably wouldn't have liked your 1857 cent all that much though. His stated color preference? "Any fixed color, light olive preferred, though black or dark very acceptable. Red secondary which, though beautiful, will not stay put."
Congrats on the beautiful bookends!
(and PS: I hope you do better someday than Henry Beckwith did when he sold that Chain cent in 1923. He lost $70 on it! Given what a certain Sheldon-4 just brought, I think you're safe ...)
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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......
And the Yang ...
I've always had a "thing" for the first and last large cents. I've owned at least one example of a Chain cent since I was in undergraduate school. My first one was a Chain AMERI. (S-1) in Poor-1. Some might have called it Fair-2, but the date had been given a little "help" to make it readable. There was no doubt that it was a genuine Chain Cent however. I sold it many years ago for $475, whcih was probably too cheep even than.
1797 No Stems, S-131:
1796 "Liherty" S-103:
The Chain you posted was one of my favorites I ever catalogued, with a provenance as long as my arm.
Benjamin Collins, who owned that piece from 1891 to 1919, probably wouldn't have liked your 1857 cent all that much though. His stated color preference? "Any fixed color, light olive preferred, though black or dark very acceptable. Red secondary which, though beautiful, will not stay put."
Congrats on the beautiful bookends!
(and PS: I hope you do better someday than Henry Beckwith did when he sold that Chain cent in 1923. He lost $70 on it! Given what a certain Sheldon-4 just brought, I think you're safe ...)
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There is some amazing copper in this thread.
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<< <i>For Bill, here are my first and last large cents (both previously from the Naftzger Collection:
I don't think anyone could grow tired of looking over that chain. NICE!
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