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Valued Member
Canada
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Thank you for your explanations and for sharing your knowledge. It's always a pleasure to read you. The first ICCS certified Far 6 cannot be longer classified as a unique variety because of the many possibilities discovered over the years. Nonetheless, there's still a premium ($) when a seller and a buyer agreed when a 1896 1-cent coin is one of the Far 6 possibilities.
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I think that you, lightw4re, misunderstand the meaning of a "numismatic variety" ..which is any coin struck from a good die, with a good planchet, and with the machinery and operating pressures correct. Every coin struck from that specific working die with the exact anomalies and markers is what constitutes a "variety". The ONLY 1896 far 6 that has ANY published and accepted price is the exact variety that ICCS first certified almost 15 years ago. It is also the only coin that is referenced in Trends .. the accepted, published variety. All of the other ones that you mention and that you provided photos for are just "wider gap" 1896's .. not "far 6's". There is no such thing as "far 6 possibilities" and that's one of the problems that I have with CaC and the god-awful attributes found on ebay and CCCS holders. People are paying big bucks for common coins, just bacause someone says that it a "far 6". |
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Edited by canadian-varieties
06/09/2017 2:06 pm
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I should have wrote: The first ICCS certified Far 6 cannot be longer classified as a the only distinguishable far 6 variety.
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United States
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Same die pair, not designated by PCGS as Far 6 (submitted many years ago). PCGS MS-64RB.  |
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Beauty! Die crack between D and E in DEI
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Canada
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Thank you lightw4re for including some new info/facts from this thread on to the CaC pricing/info page. It may help some of the more uninformed or newbies from paying too much for coins that don't meet the proper parameters. Did you get the old QX-5 microscope photos that I sent you? http://www.coinsandcanada.com/coins...nt-1876-1901Edited by okiecoiner
06/10/2017 04:44 am
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Valued Member
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Bosox what an amazing coin you have  . I have not seen better then yours. Puts ever other coin to shame up against it. Thanks for sharing. |
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United States
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Funny thing. I bought this coin from a mail bid auction held by Chuck Moore in about 1982. Might have paid $50 for it. Who knew about far 6's back then?
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06/10/2017 6:28 pm
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I was going to see if anyone saw the different font. I've seen the coin(I think) over a few brews. A nice eye-popper.
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Fabulous example bosox...(as expected)
There certainly were deals to be had back in the early and mid 80's.
Some of my nice ones were also raw and not identified..and not graded except for being called "gems" or choice uncs by the auctioneer, and I knew nothing about RP's or rarities..
I was just bidding because they were nice and shiny..
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United States
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 I found this yesterday metal detecting in Pennsylvania. I believe it is the far 6 variety. Pretty cool find even if it isn't. I'm sort of thinking about leaving the dirt on, or gently picking it off with a toothpick. |
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Give it an acetone soak to remove most of the green. See if you can find a hawthorne tree or have a friend with one in the yard .. those thorns are infinitely better than toothpicks to clean coins. You must live close to the border.
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06/11/2017 2:18 pm
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