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Pillar of the Community
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If I was going to buy the coin in question, I would find a top dealer who specializes in gold coins, and have the dealer search for the coin.
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 with Slider23 for a purchase as significant as that, I would think it wise to get a top dealer to help you. |
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Money alone will not purchase that coin ... market availability is the key obstacle to overcome.
My advise is to make your interest and financial qualifications known to some top notch dealers and ask them to find the coin for you. You will pay a premium for their time ....
Prior suggestion of Heritage is a good one ... reach out to them. Also Stacks-Bowers might be of help.
I'd enjoy a photograph should you ever acquire such a coin.
David
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Pillar of the Community
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Here is a PCGS link you can check rather often to see if any examples of this coin crop up.
PCGS runs a scan of the Internet to local PCGS graded coins that dealers are offering. It also leads you to the major auctions, which you are most likely to find an item like this.
Sorry the site won't allow me to post the link for this service, which I find disturbing. Get into the PCGS registry, enter the $4 gold or "stella" area, and hit the "shop" button. Right now nothing is available, but I check this feature regularly.
PCGS "Coin Facts" states that 14 of these coins are known. Finding one will take time, even if you have the money.
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01/02/2017 2:48 pm
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Last sold 23 April 2015, PCGS PF 65 CAC = $881,250.00 via Heritage Auctions. That one is willing to accept an offer. If you have a spare million laying around I'm sure they may listen. |
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 niceguy You might get in touch with David Lawrence and have him put some feelers out for you. |
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I don't see any 1879 Coiled Hair Stellas currently available and with only 13 known to exist you will likely need to be patient. I believe billjones was going to link this page. Scroll to the middle of the page to view availability. http://www.PCGScoinfacts.com/Coin/Detail/8058 |
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Bedrock of the Community
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This is the sort of question that I wish troubled my mind. Please post pictures if you do decide to buy one!
Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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I wonder if he already has the other 3 and needs this to complete the set.
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Just to reiterate, unless you have SIGNIFICANT experience with numismatics I would work with an very experienced, reputable dealer who specializes in gold for that type of purchase. That is a huge price point to go in even semi-blindly, and the premium you'll pay for the dealers help will be worth it, in my opinion.
Maybe you have much more experience than I'm assuming, but if you're asking on a forum how to find them, my initial assumption would be that you don't have decades of experience, at least at this "level" of numismatics.
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Bedrock of the Community
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I saw a couple at my local rare coin outlet, one PR62 and a PR64, both CAC and both listed at $82,500 APMEX has 2 coiled hair stella patterns struck by the mint in copper, gilt (plated) in gold for about $82,000 each, one for each year, in PCGS plastic. You should know enough to recognize these for what they are. They are nice, but the surfaces looked grainy or rather bumpy. Having said that, they are nice, us mint issued patterns referenced in Judd and they are acceptable substitutes at one tenth the price. The gold stellas are considered patterns too. They also have one of the gilt flowing hair pattern coins, the one with the rarer date. IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.comEdited by numismatic student
01/05/2017 11:38 am
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Pillar of the Community
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I'd like to know if a "Finder's Fee" is available.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Northeast Numismatics had one in copper gilt at the FUN show. The price is less than what you would pay for one in solid gold, and they are actually rarer.
Still they are not made of the gold. The preservation is really nice.
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