Your Best Cherry Pick

I had dozens - but this was a good one - at the time in Norweb no one really cared about St. Patricks Coinage in 1988 - Dan Linnett and myself went back and forth from $250 to $650. I eventually won it knowing it was tied for the finest known or just exceeded slightly by the Maris piece. Since then I have not seen a better one but never saw the Maris coin - however - to cross-verify. It brought over $10,000 ... The Griffee coin was not close ... it was personal why I mentioned his piece on my flip ticket which was transposed to the cataloging ...

John Lorenzo
Numismatist
United States



Lot 5633

http://media.stacksbowers.com/Virtu...icana_LR.pdf

The problem with communicating via a medium like this, i.e., strictly writing versus speaking to one another, is the "lost in translation". Perfect example Exo, you see an "implication" in my originating response where I did not even remotely think what I typed would invoke the reaction you had to it. It was not a thought in my mind that I was doing anything other than complimenting Germanics yet you "read" it a different way.

I will venture to say that if we were having a round table discussion face to face, the conversation would have never been steered down this path. And that is the shame of strict electronic communication.

'nuff said though.

Moving onto John's most excellent cherry pick, great coin sir.

I say keep 'em coming, I love this impromptu "show your best pick up" thread and I hope it hits 100 pages!

Here's a great error coin I picked up at a Dallas coin show for almost nothing. I thought the image of the Lincoln Memorial was a brockage from the other coin caught in the strike.

On studying the coin I could tell it was not a brockage, but the design of the reverse die showing on the obverse of the coin because it was so thin.

I posted the coin on CCF asking if I was right and the reverse die had caused the image on the obverse. I was told the ram pressure was set very high or the gap between the obverse and reverse dies was set very close, so that when the coin was struck outside of the collar with a planchet covering most of the obverse, much of the original metal was pushed to the outside of the coin and the reverse die left its impression on the obverse of the thin coin.



This photo shows how large the coin was at the top of the "Mushroom".



One of my favorite error cents ever! I use it as my avatar here on CCF.

Ben

I don't have picks, but I bought some Mercury dimes from a pawn shop awhile back for the going silver rate. There were two 1926 S's in VG condition in the lot. Not a big killing but I was happy.

Ben, awesome cent error! I love it, great photo too.

My best CPs have all been purchased for under $10 and sold for more than $1K, probably more than a dozen CPs like that over the years, mostly all VAM Morgan dollars. But since I don't have photos of them handy, (thread said photos), I will post my best CP's of the past couple months. All from ebay!


Nice little 1867 DDO bought raw and unattributed for under $13.00


1865 RPD paid about $30.00


Nice 1869 RPD early die state of the old so called 1868/9 purchased for under $25.00


Cool 3CN with large obverse lamination. paid $13.00

All ebay sellers photos, I haven't shot my own photos yet. All coins purchased cheap and with no variety designations except the 3CN, just bought cheap (IMO)!

I forgot aboutt his one. I purchased as a normal 1869. Owned it for about 10 years and was tinkering around with my coins one day and discovered it was a 9/9. What a good feeling it is.

And acloco, that second '31-s in the PCI slab looks like a 66 or better with those pictures. I think a crossover to PCGS could bring a nice bit of money.

WesternSki=================




Very Happy for your great buy from this dealer. Good for you!