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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Wow, that is the best looking chain cent I have ever seen. Amazed at how well it was kept.
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Rest in Peace
United States
5375 Posts |
Yeah, that's huge...I'm aspiring to own a $20000 coin some day, but I doubt I'll ever get to 1 million!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1432 Posts |
Quote: Gotta be a strawberry leaf Amida: not a strawberry leaf but probably the finest specimen known of our avatars - could possibly be the coin CCF got the avatar picture from   
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Rest in Peace
United States
10625 Posts |
That coin is so mint fresh it doesn't look right. I've never seen one with that much detail. Wow. 
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Valued Member
United States
126 Posts |
holy crapola, what a beauty.
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Valued Member
United States
489 Posts |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8904 Posts |
WOW!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10045 Posts |
 Amazing! While the CAC sticker makes total sense, it looks so cheap on that slab.
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Moderator
 United States
16679 Posts |
I might have to peel it off. It does look shabby.
swcoin.ecrater.com
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Rest in Peace
United States
10625 Posts |
Nice score VT. 
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Pillar of the Community
United States
870 Posts |
Yeah, S-4 the "Chain - Periods" variety. =)
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Moderator
 United States
16679 Posts |
Hold for 5 years, give it back to Heritage, see what you realize :) Where would you store this coin! I would be too afraid to own it!
swcoin.ecrater.com
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1801 Posts |
I believe it was the Eliasberg specimen.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
9796 Posts |
Yep it was an Elliasberg coin it was graded MS64 in that auction. Sometime between May 1996 and July 2004, this specimen was certified MS65 Brown PCGS, and today it remains in a green-label holder.
Copied from HA description;
Just three examples of S-4 exist with claims to Mint State status. The finest piece is sometimes called "The Coin" and is the example illustrated in Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins. "The Coin" is certified Specimen 67 Brown PCGS and carries a provenance back to Joseph Mickley who may have received it from the Mint Cabinet in trade for other numismatic items. Dr. Sheldon called the Mickley piece "possibly the most perfect Chain cent in existence." The second finest example is the Parmelee coin that was illustrated in the 1991 Noyes Photo book. Although later opinions are lower, Dr. Sheldon called the Parmelee cent MS65 in the 1949 publication of Early American Cents. The Eliasberg 1793 S-4 With Periods Chain cent, the second finest PCGS certified example, is considered the third finest of the S-4 cents, and carries a provenance back to 1864. In Early American Cents, Sheldon discussed the "recent sales" of examples that traded hands in the 1940s. This piece appeared in B. Max Mehl's sale of the Atwater Collection in 1946 but was overlooked by Sheldon in that discussion.
"Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Now picture an entire collection of those and all in that grade, up to 1857 and all varieties.
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