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Moderator
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 Beautyful coin.I am jealous.Background story please  John1  |
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Forum Dad
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Let's see your registry set.
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Pillar of the Community
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Gosh. Way to join the forum with a bang!
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Great looking example there! |
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What a superb coin! PCGS site claims that it was sold at a Sack's auction in 1995 for $18,700.
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Bedrock of the Community
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To the Forum.  |
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to the community! Wonderful coin! |
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Valued Member
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Want to trade my collection for your 1799?
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Pillar of the Community
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to CCF Looking fwd to hearing more from you! smat |
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to the CCF Thats an impressive first post! What else do you have to show us? Take a look at my other hobby ... http://www.jk-dk.art |
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I suppose your coin is pictured here. https://www.PCGS.com/coinfacts/coin...bb-156/40048I was wondering what caused the eagle's head and field of stars to look unstruck in the reverse. Interestingly 2 of three coins linked above, including yours show the wiped out reverse features, but one of the AU55 coins shown shows a sharply struck eagle's head and field of stars. Wondering if the reverse die for this variety broke down in that area at some point in the life of the striking sequence. The sharply struck example in AU55 looks like an early die state coin. The eagle's tail and wing feathers look sharpest in that coin with the bullseye edge toning. Yours is the best preserved nevertheless. Nice coin and welcome. 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
03/10/2023 12:58 pm
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Stunning! |
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I was wondering what caused the eagle's head and field of stars to look unstruck in the reverse. Poking around Heritage it's called "Bowers-Borckardt Die State III, with diagnostic die crack through the STA of STATES plus many other prominent die cracks throughout the reverse margins." Seems like perhaps the die is collapsed in that area? An expert might know. Edit - wait, here's more (from a VG8 example). "Peripheral elements are sharp, but the area near the eagle's head is well-worn, due to a buckled reverse die." So there you go! Edited by kbbpll
03/11/2023 1:06 pm
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Pursuant to the current discussion on the rainbow toning of Morgans, this coin has natural tarnishing. Lots of uneven mottled grey with hints of gold. Silver may take on rainbow colors or look blast white for a while, but this is the terminal state.
"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
Edited by thq
03/12/2023 5:04 pm
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Posted 03/09/2023 6:28 pm
