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(User: 1796nopole) Want To Buy: Laundry List Of Rarities

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 Posted 12/08/2020  6:38 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add 1796NoPole to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I'm in the market for a maximum expenditure of about $15k and have narrowed down my wish list to the following. Given how rare most of these are, I don't mind if they're fairly low grade, as long as they're not exceptionally ugly:

Willow Tree shilling or sixpence (colonial)
1776 Continental dollar
My username ( Half Cent)
1831 Half Cent original
1794 starred reverse cent (with some detail)
1795 Jefferson Head cent
1868 (pattern) large cent
1944 Steel cent, any mint
1969-S Doubled Die Obverse
1792 Half Disme
1796-97 half dollar
Capped Head Left $5, rare date (anything rarer than 1823; I'm looking at a 25/1 on ebay if this thread yields no hits)
Humbert or Wass Molitor $50 "slug"

Some of these come to auction fairly often but average more than I can afford; others I hardly ever see. But there are enough options here that maybe it's worth posting.
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 Posted 12/08/2020  9:20 pm  Show Profile   Check Zurie's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add Zurie to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
That's a pretty lofty wish list—I assume you mean to spend your whole wad on one coin. Any reason you picked these particular rarities?
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 Posted 12/08/2020  10:23 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add 1796NoPole to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Yep, just one, or maybe two on my luckiest day. As for the choices, I'm definitely an EAC guy, so that covers that end of the list, just classic EAC rarities. I believe the 1831 Half Cent is the lowest mintage US coin date/denom struck for circulation. Love colonials also, but those were the only two centerpiece types that could fall within my budget; I explored other options like the Higley that proved unobtainable even in crap condition. I have an attraction to inherently rare type coins, hence the fraction reverse halves and Capped Head Left $5. The rest are just prototypical show pieces; who wouldn't want the first US Federal coin or the largest ever gold coin? Above all, I definitely want something with high prestige; I often buy obscure and unique items with tough resale prospects, and want to go in the opposite direction for my first five-figure level item and get something everyone will know. I could add a few more, like 1793 Liberty Cap or 1856 Flying Eagle, but those seem almost too obtainable; more like "what I might get with the extra if my primary purchase doesn't cost that much" than actual primary targets.
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