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Press Manager
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 Unique 1873-S No-Arrows Half Dollar Listed on eBayView the listing here.With an minimum opening bid of $500,000, Paul Bosco, a New York dealer with tables at the 2008 ANA Convention, offered the "1873S No Arrows Discovery Coin," item number 300245146593 with a closing date of August 4, 2008. All Recent News Edited by CCFPress
08/20/2008 12:36 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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If this was the 73-S no arrow I would expect it to use the same reverse die as the with arrows coin. SO I looked at the with arrows coin and checked the position of the S. I do not see any trace of an S in that location on this coin. (There does appear to be the traces of an S but it is in a different location.) Also the 3 on this coin looks like an open 3. The 1873-S no arrows would be a closed 3. However with close observation I'm not convinced it is a 3 at all. It tends to look like a 3 because of the two small lumps on the last digit. If you ignore those and look past and between them it really looks like the left hand side of a 8 there. I strongly suspect this is an 1878 P half dollar.
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Pillar of the Community
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Without having specific knowledge of this series like Conder101, I still find it somewhat dubious how a coin in that condition can possibly be offered as a "discovery coin".  The damage is at several orders of magnitude higher than any surviving feature--how does one possibly separate "signal" from "noise"--aside from simply an expert hunch? Conder's analysis was a good read.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Sounds more like a ploy to get people to come to his tables, the way the ad reads.
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I would tend to listen to Conder on this one, his argument is sound and he know's what he's talking about. Discovery coin. Yeah, that's the ticket. Worth a cool half million. Found by my .......wife......Morgan Fairchild. Yeah, that's the ticket!  |
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Pillar of the Community
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thats the ugliest thing ive ever seen, I wouldnt even pay melt price for that, half melt maybe...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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theres no arrows because theyve fallen off with all the corrosion lol
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United States
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blech, that is quite possibly the ugliest coin I have ever seen. I wouldn't give you face value for that coin.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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yeah, just what happened to that coin anyway? Was it in a fire or something?
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Pillar of the Community
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I would pay face for that, and then melt it because in that condition, I cant hardly tell its even a coin.
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I loved this: "Offered by Paul Bosco ANA Tables 1248/50, not some nut" |
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Posted 08/20/2008 3:01 pm
