My First Gold!!

Lovely coin ... congratulations on your first gold coin acquisition.

David

Thanks for the flgreat comments everyone, and yes, it is definitly a great feeling! Local "con" shop.. That's hilarious... product of auto correct spelling on my phone. Thats funny 8 didnt even notice the spelling weror until now. Actually my go to coin shop is anything but a con shop, I trust my guy to the T, with grading and price.

Kelly- honestly I had this one at EF-AU and was being conserveitive by saying EF, I wasn't really sure.. I really have no experience with grading these but I could see it as an AU also... That would definite be nice. I paid just about $440 for this one so I'm quite happy with it.

-Mathew, thats a very nice one you have there also, I'd say its definitely possible for yours to pull an AU also, although again I really have little experience with these..

I have the money to grab the 1882 today... But with the half foot-foot of snow we got last night I don't know if I'll be making the trip down there today... Hopefully though... I want it bad... Gold fever.. Lol. So I I do get it ill try to get pics up asap. Thanks again everyone!

NathanASE,
First of all let me say congratulations on your first gold coin. Gold coins were, and still are hard to grade!

My first gold coin was on a charm bracelet my wife and I bought at a local auction. She wanted the bracelet and gold charms and I wanted the 1880 $5 gold piece.

We bought the bracelet for $200.00 (many years ago) and it was the start of a "minor" love affair with gold after that.

I still have that coin and perhaps 6 or 8 more gold coins but the 1880 is still one of my favorites.

With minting of over 3 million it is one of the least desirable but at that time $200.00 was real money to us so I won't forget that purchase.

Get out in the snow and go deal with your coin shop!! He may just give you a better price just because nobody else wants to make it out!

Anyway good luck with future purchases and God bless you and yours... rcordell