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WOW!  I'd love to find a deal like that at an estate sale! "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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Cool story....My problem would be actually selling it....I would have a hard time letting that go....just to be able to hold it whenever I wanted.....*sigh*
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My problem would be actually selling it.  What a story! Member ANA and EAC "You got to lose to know how to win". Dream On by Aerosmith |
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Wow, that's an INCREDIBLE find!
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07/10/2014 6:22 pm
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Wow ... tremendous find in an estate sale junk box.
David
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Awesome!
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One of our Brits just posted a nice Connecticut copper they found in a UK junk bin. Looks like the odd US early copper did cross the pond, and not all British coin dealers are looking carefully enough to distinguish them from their old halfpennies.
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That is so cool!  And yeah I would have a super hard time selling it! |
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Fantastic story! I am sure the lucky finder is thrilled.
In fact, it is certain that many early american coins made their way to Europe over the years, and I am not talking about US gold issues used to make commercial payments.
There are accounts of europeans visiting the US in the early 19th century, and bringing back 'local' coinage as mementoes of their visit. The Lord St. Oswald story is one such case concerning mint state 1794 cents (among other mont state coins) bought directly at the US mint in Philadelphia by a visiting British Lord, and passed on down his family until sold, if I recall, around the middle of the 20th century eventually passing onto to Mrs. H. Norweb. Another story I heard about lately of an old couple in Switzerland whose forefathers brought back a mint state 1793 (or 1794?) 1/2 cent, which they then sold to an eager US dealer visiting Switzerland dealer for a relatively small amount.
Breen also reports somebody finding a well preserved 1793 Flowing Hair cent at a flea market along the mediterranean coast!
I am sure there are many more such stories.
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07/14/2014 11:26 am
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Never was a fan of the Chain Cent design, but a find like this would sway my opinion.
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The Lord St Oswald sale was in October 1964.
I wounder why they bothered to mention the vine and bars edge? ALL chain and wreath cents have the vine and bars edge except some of the last variety of the 1793 wreath, S-11b and 11c. So if it is a chain it HAS to have a vine and bars edge. You might as well also mention that it had the word LIBERTY on it or that it had a 1/100 fraction on it.
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I would give the estate--$ 500 back at least--lol
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