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Pillar of the Community
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If you have 1 put a hand up.  If you have 2, 2 hands up.  3 or more hands in the air.  I got one so, . Feel free to include pictures. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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 I didn't know there was any. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have quite a few of them, however they are all business strikes from Philly, not the proof ones from SanFran, which are the rare ones. :(
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Feel free to include pictures. You first  John1  |
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Pillar of the Community
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I would love to see one.
Please do post pics.
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I would love to see one.
Please do post pics.   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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and yes, I also have a few also...but not the rare proof strike w/no S |
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I actually "discovered" it back in 1990. I was buying five new proof sets a year from the mint($11. each back in those days) Got my sets, opened them, and found one set was missing the "S" on the penny. I wanted to keep it as low as a mintage as possible, so called the mint, hoping if there were any still there, they would destroy them and keep the mintage low. I talked with a few people there who assured me I didn't have what I said I had, but I'm sure they knew it existed as they offered to replace the set for another if I wasn't happy with it! I then contacted Alan Herbert at Numismatic News, told him what I had. We talked a few times, asked me to send him the set to document, but I was to hesitant to ship it out, not anything with him, but with USPS. He told me he thought there might be anywhere up to 2000 examples, but I think less than 200 are known. At the time, I asked him what he thought it could be worth over time. He said give it 10 years and it could fetch upwards of $10,000. Don't think it ever approached that though. He talked with another person who got one a few days later, and then it was a cover story in NN the following week. Its my claim to fame in coin history, lol |
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Wish it was mine...  Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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To the Forum. |
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New Member
United States
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A bit of coin collectors luck I'd say. As the old saying goes (rather be lucky than good any day), LOL Nice find.
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New Member
United States
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The US 2018 Coin Guide has this coin (if still in the original packaging) as part of the whole mint set listed with a value of $4,250 and if you were real lucky and purchased one of the Prestige sets the value would then be $4,750. Awesome!
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crusherjc, congratulations! That's quite a story. Maybe someday I'll have a claim to numismatic fame.  Do you still have it? Edited by Numisma
05/02/2018 08:16 am
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Pillar of the Community
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Pictures won't be available till Friday. (Need to go to safety deposit.) I got mine without a proof set. Bought a penny box a few months back and it was a collection dump of wheats and proof's and I got mine from that box. Sadly had some circulation PMD. :( |
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I have two:   When it rains, it pours! Kind regards, George |
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