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Pillar of the Community
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  Picked these up a few weeks ago. I have a hard time turning these down close to spot. They would probably never officially grade PO-01 due to date and mint mark clarification. |
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United States
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They would probably never officially grade PO-01 due to date and mint mark clarification. Lowballs should still be identifiable by date and mint mark. That there is almost nothing else is exactly what the aim is! I bet these get the PO-01. |
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Picked these up a few weeks ago. I have a hard time turning these down close to spot. They would probably never officially grade PO-01 due to date and mint mark clarification. Amazing!  |
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
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The one on the right looks perfectly identifiable to me. 1899-O.
I once had an opportunity to get a CC mint Morgan in only slightly better condition. Sadly the negotiations didn't work out (we couldn't figure out a payment method). I still don't have any CC mint coins (Morgans or otherwise).
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United States
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That is one smooth coin!  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Connor, you mean they would not make PO - 01 because they would be PO -005? Those coins are amazing and real classics. They look great and I love the even wear. They are collectable because they are so worn. Enough survives to say Morgan dollar and thats great. One of them is a New Orleans too, a better than average mint mostly. |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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  Maybe too much detail remains on this. The last digit of the date can be made out as a 7, making it an 1807. |
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Connor, you mean they would not make PO - 01 because they would be PO -005? I've often joked before that the grades below Good really should have a lot more subdivisions that they do - and Poor-1, in particular, is way more expansive than one might naively expect. In a particularly convenient example, 1793 chain cents come in grades all the way down to "there's a slight hint of a chain on one side", which would normally have been way below Poor had there been such an option, but the unique design makes them still identifiable even in that kind of grade, and the sheer rarity (and popularity as the first definite US coin issue, though there's some dispute about the 1792 Half Disme) means that even in that kind of grade they're still very valuable. So you end up with coins slabbed as "Poor-1" that are actually far lower. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Here are a few more lowballs I added recently. I'm going to add a picture to my lowball roll the next time I pull it out.   |
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United States
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Fantastic examples! |
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Pillar of the Community
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You guys are going to love this Australian Sixpence   You can make out its 1912 and its the size of a sixpence. Australian silver from the 1910s is seldom found in high grades at the best of times (My best pieces come in around Fine and even VG for some dates), but this is a new level of worn. It might be Poor 0.8 or 0.9 rather than 1 - because this coin is crazy! |
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United States
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Fantastic! |
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How many of these are there?
Oh.....don't answer that question. It looked like to much meat in this slab for a straight PO-1 but I guess it was. Love to have any straight PO-1 in a slab. |
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United States
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"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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