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Was at my LCS and picked up this tough date yesterday.I saw it and had to have it even though it's not close to MS like the rest of them I have been trying to collect.It seems to me it has a lot of history and character anyway.Like who had it in their pocket and what was it used for.Could have even been in Vegas in the 1950's in slot machine possibly before someone eventually saved it from further damage.Someday I might find a better one I can afford but as you know they get pricey real fast in higher grades.   |
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Very nice!  |
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Thank you jbuck for all your positive and encouraging comments.
On my Bucket list is to visit the Carson City Mint and Virginia City someday.I have already visited many mining and ghost towns in Nevada already.I really get a thrill out of Carson City dollars for some reason.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Tough date - congrasts! She's a looker. It's always fun to have a scarce date CC Morgan. IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Handsome specimen indeed.
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Pillar of the Community
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Nice coin! Usually see these looking like they were beat with a heavy chain for some reason.
"Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 |
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Virginia City. The Comstock Lode is about 4 blocks down the hill directly underneath F Street. Comstock's original mining claim at the north end of F is now occupied by the Storey County municipal pool in Miner's Park. It is striking how close the miners lived to the mines. The Pioneer Saloon, three blocks up the hill from F Street, connects directly to mine tunnels. Sadly there is nothing left of the mining companies,tailings dumps, smelters and headrigs that once crowded F Street.  Ride the Virginia and Truckee Railroad up from Carson City if you go. https://www.virginiatruckee.com/schedule-fares/"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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04/21/2022 6:20 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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Any CC coin is a great piece of history. Liking the looks of this one |
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Nice honest coin, congrats!
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Three more coins and the front half of the Morgan collection is complete.The 1885-CC,1889-CC and the 1890-CC.The only one I see being a problem is the 1889. Outstanding! |
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My great-great grandmother was Emma Goldsmith a rather well known worker and proprietor in the underground scenes of Virginia City and Carson City before settling up in Bodie, California, one of the wildest of the wild Wild Western boom towns in the 1890s. Before finding its way into a Vegas casino in the 1950s, this coin may have passed through the pockets of illicit affairs and been at the heart of saloon gambling and brawls. Emma is recorded as getting into a street fight with another worker, and somehow I'm sure money played a role in that tussel. Later she fired three rounds at a horse racer and gambler in a saloon in Bodie, but missed him and thankfully eveyone else as the bullets landed in the street outside.
A future in-law of Emma's, if she had lived long enough, was the 6th husband of another great-great grandmother of mine. In the 1920s in southern Utah, at the age of 70, he shot and killed his son-in-law over a longstanding money dispute, although he claimed self-defense in his old age. There were probably a few CC dollars involved in that one too.
The newspapers back then in the west proved that truth was stranger than fiction. But those old silver dollars out of CC that travelled around saw some incredibly crazy stuff even before the casinos popped up! I'd gladly argue that an eye appealing specimen like yours lived a much fuller life than a shiny MS example that sat in a bag, oblivious to all the action going.
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Thanks for sharing your wonderful family history. IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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That is very interesting. |
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