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I'm home and have new pics in hand to share! Very nice!  |
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That's a real beauty! Can't wait to see those PCGS results.
-CH27
Collector of U.S. Coins, Varieties, and Colonial Coinage
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This remains an amazing story of a potentially rare cherry pick right under the nose of a professional dealer.
Great in hand photos - I look forward to the eventual PCGS grade and attribution opinion.
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Extremely nice!! Hopefully the spots won't detail the coin. The spot on the reeding looks to be corrosion, you may want to evaluate all the spots and see what needs to be removed.
Anyway, just out of curiosity, would you sell this coin or keep it?
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I'm still between 64 and 65 with the new pics. Sounds like you are sending to PCGS. As you said, the carbon spots (or whatever they are) seem to be present on some of the other examples as well, but it might worth the cost of the restoration fee to see if they can help lessen those. Either way it's still a very strong coin.
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@jacrispies, this will stay with me for a while. I have a number of small cent patterns from the era (this is number 8) and it fits that small collection very nicely.
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Very nice ! |
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Very nice! Great cherry pick.
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Congratulations, very well done!
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If PCGS says it is genuine, then maybe PCGS should conserve it before slabbing it? What ye say? John1  |
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Does PCGS offer conservation? I see they do restoration, is this the same thing? All the pictures they show of this service are on silver coins, which worries me that they don't work much on copper. Has anyone had an experience with them for copper? Might need a new thread for this topic.
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I am also 100% confident this is the real deal. The High Date proof format has a prepunched 18 in the date that is not seen on any other examples of this date, proof or ms. It is seen here. All of the markers for this pattern are evident on this example.  |
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Will you have PCGS conserve it? What sort of value are we looking at after it is slabbed? John1 Edited by John1
07/15/2022 2:32 pm
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How exciting. Well done! It must be so satisfying to find something like this as a collector. 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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