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Nice find NoPoMoCo

I view it as buying something for considerably less than its worth, so it all depends on how much you spent versus how much it is worth.

Very cool find Exoguy!

While it's a great feeling to make a purchase for far less than its generally perceived value, I tend to take even more pleasure in acquiring a piece that's so rarely seen that it has no established market value.

NoPoMoCo ... The Stack's piece, at the time being one of two listed for the variety, was the Terranova specimen, There are collectors who place a higher value on pedigree. This variety bears more info than Bradley's other varieties, and I suspect that was also a contributing factor. Then too, bidders often get "swept up" in the bidding process, and the top auction houses like Stack's tend to draw bidders with the deepest of pockets. Personally, I value my specimen at between $300-$400. If the host coin was a four or eight reale piece, the value could double or more.

Westcoin .... I share your enthusiasm for finding a very scarce book, catalog, etc. about coins for a nominal cost. Such scarce items are often overlooked by today's collectors. Congrats!

Gee Thanks guys! I already have a complete set of Numismatic Scrapbooks (as of December), where the original "book" study was first published, and I have a photocopy of the book from the ANA copy, but it's nice to have a real hardbound special edition finally - signed and numbered.

Wish I had a chance to get the original book cover printing plate, it sold at the Chicago Coin Club meeting for $80.00 in 2010. There is a full story in the E-Gobrecht newsletter Vol. 6 No. 12 of you can see it here;
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_e...tml#article8
Now that is really cool!

For those that don't know 1873-1873 is all about U.S.coins dated 1873 and the various varieties mostly having to do with the open and closed 3 in the date.