Thank you all for the compliments and kind words.
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Beautiful acquisitions indeed!
Love the toning on the 1882-O Morgan and the cockatoo coin.
We had a goffin named Boo-Boo but he died a few years back.
He was quite a character. They are so full of personality!
Sorry to hear you lost him a few years ago.. I'm sure it wasn't easy especially with these birds being lifelong companions..Yes my birdy is quite the character and has quite the personality to go with it.. His name is lucky and he is an umbrella cockatoo and only 18yrs old now so he has a very long life ahead of him I hope. I have a picture on this forum of him somewhere with him helping me take the wrappers off the half dollar rolls while hunting for silver
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The Australian Cockatoo coin is the 1990 White Cockatoo piedfort coin by your description at 40g
That's 100% spot on description, thank you
... it was very late and was frustrated with the picture rotation problem I was having so just gave a generic description off the top of my head at 2am or whatever ridiculous time it was.
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Those old small white ANACS were graded pretty strict. I have seen many cross with a few even getting a bump in grade. I like finding those holders as they don't pull PCGS prices.
That's good information to know and I had heard the old holders were graded stricter but wasn't sure if it was fact or opinion but going based off of some of the coins I have seen in these old holders it seems to be spot on, Thank You...Kinda got very lucky when I bought this coin as it was at a coin show and I happened to spot it and loved the toning and the old holder and asked him how much?.. Dealer replies with $70 so I told him I would be right back and went and checked with my reputable dealer (who also specializes in morgans) at another table and we both did some quick research on pricing and turns out it was a conditional rarity anything above ms-64 and current pricing on it from fair market value on numismedia had it listed for a lot more so I rushed back to table didn't even bother to try n get it cheaper.. Gave him the $70 and walked away smiling.. Dealer oversight on a typical common date but apparently didn't research into it enough to realize what he had...Here is the price breakdown as of right now on numismedia. MS-64= $140, MS-65= $1,100, and MS-66= $5,440 which is why I'm thinking about tryiong to cross it over.. However I did get a bit confused as to the last part of your response in the post so if you could ellaborate more I would greatly appreciate it :-)
Posted 10/05/2016 02:33 am
