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I would take a VG corroded specimen any day of the week!
This coin will have a feeding frenzy of bidders giving it's limited availability and it's somewhat affordability.
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What's your guess on hammer price vermont?
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VG details my butt,,,,someone high up was shown favoritism on that piece, rare or not....
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I ain't vermontensium, but it's in my mind that it'll take at least a half-million bucks to stand a chance of taking this one home. There are some Large Fish swimming in the waters of Early Copper varieties, as evidenced by the $1.3M that a PCGS VG-10 example fetched last year.
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The 1/2 known specimen is a holed full obv brockage piece. The "only use" obv is there but the 'only use" rev isn't.) Need help here. Why would it be holed back then? A test for purity in the metal? Thanks , just a new guy on the CCF. |
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half-million bucks Ok, well I'm out  Plus it's not a morgan anyway  |
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For $500k, Cascade, imagine how many MS 1893-S Morgans you could pick up, or 1879-CC/1893-CC, or 1895's, or Zerbe proofs...
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No, I actually thought about it and I'd throw down a touch more for the jack lee 1889cc If I'm on the next season of Alone, and win the 500K purse, I'm in. I do know a few producers over at Leftfield Productions so who knows but probably not lol  Edited by Cascade
08/06/2015 5:37 pm
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Just make sure you take LOTS and LOTS of pictures for us ;)
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Oh, I'd love to have $500k of DMPL Morgans, by the way. Imagine a full-wall-length mirror made up exclusively of DMPL Morgans.
Could buy a pretty nice Chain cent collection for 500k, maybe even with a Strawberry Leaf...or not, I haven't checked prices on one in years.
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Need help here.
Why would it be holed back then? A test for purity in the metal? It almost certainly was not holed by the mint. The hole is a small one at the top of the obverse and it was most likely holed and worn as "jewelry" at some point between 1795 and the 1940's when it was recognized for what it was. |
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Makes you wonder what the most expensive coin with a hole in it is
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Massachusetts Pine Tree coinage, and territorial gold pieces, and a few other very scarce colonials and state coins bring in big bucks even with holes and repaired holes, but rarely above $500k.
For the "real" big bucks, look to the ancients and medievals, where some coins are so impossibly rare that holes don't even remotely make an impact on the value, easily busting through the $500k mark when you get into the "1 of 15" or "1 of 10" or "1 of 5" or even "1 of 2" rarities..
I can't access auction catalogs here at work or I'd go look, but I'd bet on it being a Greek or Roman coin, or possibly pre-Norman coins (Saxon/Mercian/etc.) It's hard to get accurate pricing since most of these coins in this price range are rarely, if ever, offered for sale, being held by old money, royalty, or in museums.
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The quote, "It's a thrill to handle this coin" makes me visualize a bunch of suit-wearing slobs passing it from one grubby, sweaty hand to the other as they drool uncontrollably.
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Jpsned, did you see the episode of "Strange Inheritance" on fox news channel dealing with the discovery of the 5th 1913 Liberty nickel. If not, WATCH IT and it will illustrate the your visualization. Its a little crass however to call them "suit wearing slobs" this is they're lifes devotion and they are tops in their fields. One can only aspire to be one of those "slobs"  |
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