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Pillar of the Community
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Looks better than VF to me; I'd call it a solid AU. For a gold coin that presumably had been rattling around with other coins in a box it is surprisingly free of marks. It looks real, but you might want to check the weight if you have access to an accurate scale. Counterfeits exist of most US gold coins. A real quarter-eagle should weigh in at about 4.18 grams.
Beautiful coin, and a terrific find. Like Arthrene, I'm wondering what else was in the box?
Oh, welcome to the forum!
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Pillar of the Community
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Silly me, I keep shoes in those boxes. Jim  |
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Welcome!
Looks AU to me. Can't tell much more from photos.
Great find.
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 Looks great! Nice find |
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United States
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beautiful coin. It is conservatively, AU+. I have a 5 Dollar lib in similar condition graded by PCGS. This 2 1/2 dollar lib is valued about 250-275 dollar range..........wonderful find....congrats
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Man !.......PRETTY SWEET FIND!......  Sheeesh though, the only thing I'd find in my shoe boxes is shoes and maybe a spider or two!Congrats......bud.....that's great !  Edited by eaglefoot
03/29/2008 10:17 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Graet find, if you have any more shoeboxes laying around be sure to give them to me!
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, forgot to include this in the last response |
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Pillar of the Community
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Although that coin has a great big "WOW" factor,
if you weren't the one to assemble the shoebox collection,
I would be all over the other "plain" looking
coins to see what's there!
One of the worn and tarnished old coins you overlooked
could be far more valueable than the glitzy resident of the box.
You may have overlooked a 16 SLQ in fine, or something even better.
The value there would buy you MANY gold coins.
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Valued Member
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It's worth a couple cents. It's fake. *waits for you to slam the coin on the floor and curse at it* OOOOOHHHH, that coin? No, that's perfectly real, and was worth a lot before you threw it on the ground. Great find, and to the boards! |
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How, pray tell, did it end up in that shoe box? A 1921 Walking Liberty half I can understand ending up in a shoe box for a few decades, but how does an almost flawless 1906 quarter eagle end up in a shoe box with some old pocket change? What else was in the box, a couple CC morgans, and some AU Barber dimes? |
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Great coin, buy more shoe boxes!
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The dealer near my work has a similar coin for sale.
I'll check when I go there tomorrow if it's the same coin or not.
Pretty sure he's looking for 380 for it.
I'll see if he'll let me snap a few pics too... I spend enough money in there haha
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