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1938-S Mercury Dime That Eclipsed $360,000

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 Posted 12/31/2019  2:52 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add dave700x to your friends list
Just wow! It looks like it and the '31-S mentioned in the same article ended up in the D.L. Hansen registry set....
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 Posted 12/31/2019  2:52 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add oriole to your friends list
$600 in MS67, and $360,000 in MS68!

That prices make no sense to me, but one person is happy to pay that much. To each their own.
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 Posted 12/31/2019  2:56 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add T-BOP to your friends list
Wow ,unbelievable . Just Carl probably has 3 of those .
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 Posted 12/31/2019  3:11 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Daves Errors to your friends list
Must have been a Bidding War between two Richie Richie's. The winner is now drunk and crying asking himself, WHAT DID I JUST DO My wife is gonna kill me when she finds out. Wife's gonna be like Hubby's gonna be like
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 Posted 12/31/2019  3:24 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Greasy Fingers to your friends list
Well, google has DL Hansens net worth at 4 billion dollars, so what is 360k to him? Off my head I'm thinking less than 1/2 of 1 percent
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 Posted 12/31/2019  4:56 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add edweather to your friends list
How much was the toning worth?
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 Posted 12/31/2019  9:56 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add basebal21 to your friends list

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How much was the toning worth?


It's hard to say, the price was getting run up on him so if you remove him from the bidding it's hard to see that getting that price again. Happened on another one too which I think was also in that sale.
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 Posted 01/01/2020  08:40 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add just carl to your friends list
If that thing sold for that much, my #1 set of those should be worth Billions of dollars.
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 Posted 01/01/2020  09:36 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add edweather to your friends list
Any way to find out if the winner actually paid? The article was written only 6 days after auction end.
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 Posted 01/01/2020  12:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add basebal21 to your friends list

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Any way to find out if the winner actually paid? The article was written only 6 days after auction end.


There's no fake sales at Legend auctions and you have to be vetted to bid to that level.

He got run up as has been discussed on various forums/blogs for months
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 Posted 01/01/2020  1:38 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add macmercury to your friends list
@justcarl,

Looking through PCGS pop report, there's only one that graded MS 68+FB, and twenty graded at MS 68 FB. I would say some just want to have the number 1 in his collection.
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 Posted 01/01/2020  1:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add just carl to your friends list

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Looking through PCGS pop report, there's only one that graded MS 68+FB, and twenty graded at MS 68 FB

Means nothing. I've seen many, many Mercury dimes in really high grades and not in a slab so PCGS doesn't even know they exist. I really don't think anyone is going to spend that much on that coin.
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 Posted 01/01/2020  8:15 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add edweather to your friends list

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There's no fake sales at Legend auctions and you have to be vetted to bid to that level.

He got run up as has been discussed on various forums/blogs for months


Ok, thanks. Guess I'm a little behind the curve. "Run up" is the biggest understatement since Noah said, "It looks like rain."
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 Posted 01/02/2020  11:49 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add basebal21 to your friends list

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"Run up" is the biggest understatement since Noah said, "It looks like rain."


Haha yea pretty much. If I remember right there were multiple bidders for a lot higher than the estimate and that most people would think, but since the links can't be posted here
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