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Chris Briggs has a Class III 1804 Draped Bust Dollar for $3.84 million if anyone is in the market. This coin was in the Brent Pogue collection and sold at Stack's in 2020 for $1.44 million. and by the same auction house in 2014 for $1.88 million, so it is trending down on the auction block over recent years.    Seller's Description: Known as the "King of American Coins", there are only eight Class I dollars known, one Class II, and five known examples that are in private hands of this Class III 1804 U.S. Draped Bust Silver Dollar. A famous numismatist once said of the coin "In all of numismatics of the entire world, there never has been a single coin upon which so much has been written and discussed as the United States silver dollar of 1804." This particular specimen, a Proof 55, was once from the estate of the prominent late collector D. Brent Pogue, and previously had been in a dozen other great collections. 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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What a fantastic coin, numismatic student! $3.84M is a pittance compared to auction prices for paintings. But a $2.4M profit on a 4 year flip seems ambitious.
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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12/08/2024 01:35 am
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Rarity aside, what a gorgeous-looking coin.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Coin has some interesting features in the reverse. The stars on either side of the eagle's head have pronounced doubling, the banner with EPU seems doubled, again in a very pronounced way, and the lower left wing feathers below the banner also seem doubled, showing an extra row of feathers. Not sure if any other draped bust dollar reverses show the same features. Perhaps it isn't doubling but recut or restruck die features in the reverse die.
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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Do you have a link to the webpage where it's for sale?
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Bedrock of the Community
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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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What would a business strike AU-55 go for?
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Bedrock of the Community
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Thanks NS. I sent the link to a couple coin nuts I know.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Pretty sweet coin!
Errers and Varietys.
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Posted 12/08/2024 08:37 am
