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I've wanted a $20 gold Liberty for a while. I looked at hundreds of them on ebay and Great Collections the last two months. They typically have a lot of bag marks, etc. unless you get MS63 and above. Since I'm mostly a stacker than a collector I decided to just buy a raw one from Liberty Coin. It's a common 1904. I paid 7.1% over it's melt value which is more than buying a raw 1 oz gold buffalo or raw 1 oz gold American eagle. It has some bag marks, light scratches etc but not bad. It may have been cleaned at one time, a lot of them have been. My camera is not good enough to pick up the small defects. I won't have it graded, not worth it. Next month is the local annual coin show. I'll look for a graded example, see if I can get a good deal on one there. I had two relatives serve with the Union Army during the civil war, might be fun owning a lower grade $20 gold from the 1860s. I also like the PL proof like ones. Here are pics I took with different light and slightly different angles.  Edited by livingwater
02/22/2024 08:21 am
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Looks very nice, congrats!
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Very nice.  Take a look at my other hobby ... http://www.jk-dk.art |
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Nice example, always great to get classic gold for not much more than melt!
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livingwater you bought a nice one, congrats!
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Good work! That's a big hunk of gold!
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Very nice!! I have one on hold also, will get it next week. It's a large hunk of gold and feels good to hold! Yours looks very nice!
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She's a beauty! Congratulations.
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I mentioned in a recent thread on "junk silver" that I thought it was one of the great bargains in coin collecting, a high cool factor for not much premium over melt value, and the same goes for old gold. Your price might be an even bigger bargain because this looks like it could grade quite high. Once you start climbing up into the 60s the value really starts climbing and I wonder what this would grade at. |
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Awesome pickup! Errers and Varietys.
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From the pics provided, I'm guessing at least MS-64. Congrats on a great coin!
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That's a beauty from any angle! I never realized how elegant the reverse is on this design until I saw your coin.
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02/22/2024 8:59 pm
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A beauty ! My favorite reverse on a coin.
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Nice! 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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Looks quite nice. Certainly Choice Mint State quality from these images.
You say you paid 7.1% over melt. Want to make sure you know $20 Double Eagles do not contain one troy ounce of gold. The Buffs and Eagles of course do, Double Eagles contain 0.9675 troy ounces of gold.
Not trying to diminish your purchase in any way. You made a good move buying classic pre-1933 gold.
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02/23/2024 03:13 am
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Thanks all for responding. I'm happy with the coin. Yeah I know it's not a full troy ounce, it's .9675. I used the NGC melt value and went from there to what I paid. Guess I should have said that earlier. https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide...US-Gold-CoinEdited by livingwater
02/23/2024 08:00 am
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