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  I bought this on ebay for $28 the day before yesterday. The seller thought it was dateless, but it is a 1797, rev of 1795. In addition, it is the S-121 variety. However, there are two sub-varieties of the S-121: the plain edge and the gripped edge. If this coin is the plain edge, it is easily a $500+ coin, and an R-6+. If it is a gripped edge, it's an R-3, and still a good buy, seeing as a PCGS AG3 sold at auction in 2015 for $142.  It should arrive around the first of February. Let's hope for a plain edge...  Edited by Omegaraptor
01/27/2018 9:01 pm
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Rest in Peace
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Looks like chocolate to me.  |
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Rest in Peace
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Sweet chocolate. An excellent example of your research knowledge paying dividends. Congratulations.
Let us know when you get it please.
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Pillar of the Community
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Nice find!!  Update us when you get it, please! |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Fingers crossed!  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Better pictures when it arrives please, out of the holder. From those images I can tell it is a 1797, but I can't confirm the rev of 95 type.
If it IS the 121a, it isn't an R-6+ anymore. It is somewhere around a 6- or a 5+, I believe there are at least around 25 of them now. Still a rare and popular variety though.
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Oh wow, that many have been found in the past few years? Wow.
And better pictures, as will as pictures of the edge, will come when I get the coin.
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It just arrived! Aaaand... *suspense* The edge is gripped. Although not the best case, I did mention that a professionally graded AG3 sold for $142 at auction in 2015. So this find still deserves some dancing fruit.    Although it kinda boggles my mind that the seller thought it was dateless, yet failed to notice the obvious grip marks on the edge that can be attributed to one and only one date. Ah well. A Sheldon 121b - still a good find! For $28, I'll gladly take it. Edited by Omegaraptor
01/29/2018 7:59 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Not a home run but a bunt single maybe.
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Oh wow, that many have been found in the past few years? Wow. I don't know when the count on the Coinfact's site was made, but I suspect it was old data even then. When I found mine over 20 years ago it was either number 16 or 18. Since then I have confirmed two more specimens that others have found and I know that at least a few more have been found. 25 or so is probably a pretty safe guess. There are 18 listed in the The Score (Early date large cent census) and it doesn't list all of them that exist. |
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