2nd opinion 1865-s $20 pcgs ms61

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• RYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 26, 2012 8:37AM

  Looks nice, probably a Brother Jonathon shipwreck coin.

  My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132

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• roadrunner Posts: 28,313 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 26, 2012 11:01PM

  Seems ok for a MS61. They can be a lot worse looking that this.

  Barbarous Relic No More, LSCC -GoldSeek--shadow stats--SafeHaven--321gold

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• AngryTurtle Posts: 1,587 ✭✭✭

  January 26, 2012 11:13PM

  
  
  << <i>Looks nice, probably a Brother Jonathon shipwreck coin. >>
  
  
  
  RYK, are you saying that based on the date only, or does the look factor into it? I am interested in the shipwreck coins, and trying to learn more about them.

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• BillJones Posts: 34,782 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 26, 2012 11:42PM

  I've learned from hard experience that it's almost impossible to spot a possible crack-out from a picture. I've seen many photos of gold coins that hid or diminished the presence of marks. For example I own one of the two 1838-D $5 gold pieces that PCGS has graded MS-63. It took me a while to match my coin to one shown on the Coin Facts web site, but it is the same coin.
  
  As an MS-63 my coin does have some very light marks, but it's hard to see them in the Coin Facts photo. You need to have this coin in hand before you can make such a decision. My take is that this piece has a lot of little marks, and probably won't up-grade.

  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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• Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 27, 2012 5:24AM

  Please "BEWARE", I received an e-mail from
  jeffmfiorillo@gmail.com offering the same coin
  1865 s PCGS MS-61 8944.61/ 240533939 to me
  for $2900.00 !!!

  Timbuk3

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• RYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 27, 2012 5:36AM

  
  
  << <i>
  
  << <i>Looks nice, probably a Brother Jonathon shipwreck coin. >>
  
  
  
  RYK, are you saying that based on the date only, or does the look factor into it? I am interested in the shipwreck coins, and trying to learn more about them. >>
  
  
  Both the date and the look.

  My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132

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• g048406 Posts: 247

  January 27, 2012 5:37AM

  
  
  << <i>Please "BEWARE", I received an e-mail from
  jeffmfiorillo@gmail.com offering the same coin
  1865 s PCGS MS-61 8944.61/ 240533939 to me
  for $2900.00 !!! >>
  
  
  
  This is the same coin being discussed here:
  Would you risk this or run?
  
  Seems there's an elobarte scam here to sell this coin

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• oreville Posts: 12,139 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 27, 2012 3:57PM

  Stay away from that email.

  A Collectors Universe poster since 1997!

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