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Pillar of the Community
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Just wow. What an awesome journey. Congrats.
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Someone should do a write-up on this saga using the information and interactions from this thread.
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Valued Member
United States
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I totally joined these forums at the right time hahaha! Instant gratification!
Congrats!!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Wow! Congratulations! Too bad it took this long. I admit-I was in the "Nay" camp. Shut me up...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I remember you were a nay vote oldgrouchyguy. I was a mugwump and kept my own council. Based on owning a few grading service body bags, my biggest fear was too little evidence to authenticate.
"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
Edited by thq
07/23/2024 10:54 pm
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Wow-ee, the day has come. It seems there are 2 big takeaways -
1 - it is only one of two known examples, and the other has a hole and is at the Massachusetts Historical Society
2 - this new one was graded 45 and valued at $1.5M by PCGS. I wonder how they arrive at that number.
And it first surfaced right here in this thread. Astounding.
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Pillar of the Community
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thq: in my defense, I remember when the company that I worked for had a Birch Cent, graded by the newly-formed PCGS grading group, VF25(?). There was one very well-respected Colonial dealer who said it was NG and he didn't care what anyone thought about it. A little harsh, but, you like to have "all your ducks in a row" for something like this, out of the woodwork and all, and I guess Stack's did that. My hat's off to both the OP and Stack's, and I'll have a little Humble Pie in the meanwhile.
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Pillar of the Community
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 Be nice if this coin was eventually purchased and donated to the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian. Maybe one of the jillionaires in this Country will step up to the plate if it becomes available. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Well this is exciting if it's indeed the same OP coin. Sure looks like it.
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@jacrispies
Curious. How did you come to have those photos?
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@jacrispies Curious. How did you come to have those photos?   |
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Pillar of the Community
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I think Stack's will be making an announcement about it soon... Jadey: this picture is on the PCGS website  Edited by Oldgrouchyguy
07/24/2024 1:33 pm
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Jadey: this picture is on the PCGS website I'm guessing they're asking about the pic of the slab (which seems to have been held in someone's hand). |
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I'm guessing they're asking about the pic of the slab (which seems to have been held in someone's hand).  Quote:Looks great! It'll be written and publicized about in a month or two.   |
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