Last Great Find In History

I recall a year or two back there was an ultra rare high quality half ealge or eagle that came to the market that was put up on one of the main auction houses. A family had owned it for many generations before selling it. There was also a previously unknown example of a early reeded cent that was discovered recently that only had a mere handful known, the owner purchased it from a dealer who didnt know about the variety.

Though not as recent as the ones that xavierofgreen mentions, I think maybe somewhere between 5-6 years ago someone brought out a 1854-S quarter eagle that had been in a safety deposit box for years. I think it was certified as XF-45. I forgot how much it sold for but I think it was over $200000. Another coin that I remember found in 2006, though it is a variety but a very well known one especially to bust half dollar collectors is the 1817/4 half dollar. This coin was literally found in the dirt. It later sold for more than $250000 though a more recent sale of it had it barely making 6 figures. This is the link to the most recent sale of that coin: http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleN...4&lotNo=2418
Just from googling, turned up an article of a 1856-O double eagle that was discovered last year. I have included a link to that article: http://www.coinlink.com/News/us-coi...-long-beach/
Goes to show that those rarities are still out there waiting to be discovered. I hope I will be lucky enough to discover a major rarity.

There was a thread on this sight referring to a 1915 s Panama-Pacific Exposition $50 piece. One of them would be the holy grail to my commemorative set.

That 1795 chain cent was the one I was thinking of, nice work finding the thread Saruma. I couldnt remember the date and exact details but I remembered reading about it someplace and it must have been here on the forum lol.

I wonder how all those odd type Cents that popped up so much lately would fall into those examples. Like the 1943 Copper Cents, 1974 Aluminum, 59 Wheat Back, 44 Steel Cent, etc. None would go into the hundreds of thousands but some are way up there in value.

This is the first thing that popped into my head

A few years ago a rare strawberry leave 1793 large cent showed up in maine. I think the family got around $750,000 at auction

The Strawberry leaf was not a new specimen though, just the finest one whose location had been unknown since the early 40's.

The 94-S dime is a good possibility We know 24 were made and for the most part they have been known to be rarities since the very beginning. Five were destroyed for assay purposes yet only 9 of them are known today. I'm sure some of them are still out there.