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Not to knock the coin in any way but as a man who takes pictures of coins all day I'd say that the lighting really sold that coin. He even mentions using the red candy wrapper to show off the mirroring. Let this be an example of, getting it right, to anyone who wants to sell some coins on ebay. IMHO. |
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Beautiful coin, they just don't make em like that anymore. A true work of art!!
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Not that I've been looking, but that was almost too good to be true. Wow, I've never seen one that nice before. I'm going to have to watch ebay more often. |
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If they can get it slobbed 65, they'll make some serious $.
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I looked at that aspect to biggfredd. I think it's more like MS64DMPL. No doubt it's a pretty coin!
I still think the buyer did very well with his $203 winning bid.
I have to admit, I was tempted but sat this one out.
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Edited by vermontensium
05/09/2011 11:12 pm
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Wish I would have seen that. Advantageous lighting or not, that is a beauty. Nice deal too. I would have bid a bit higher for that one.
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Wow that is a lovely dimple, the coin in hand must be simply amazing. I'll have to add one or two to my wish list.
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so no one has noticed that just about every coin he has for sale is like this?
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why aren't the coins slabbed?
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The quality of a DMPL at this standard is better than the current proof collector coins from the Royal Australian Mint.
In my opinion, the sand blasting of the device details to achieve the cameo effect on the RAM products is way too coarse. If they simply used a much finer blasting sand, or acid bathed the details for a lot less time, a much better product would result. Currently, far too much detail is obliterated to achieve the cameo effect.
Can't be that hard to adjust.... the U.S. Mint has proved that 100 years ago with the DMPL example shown above. Fabulous coin!
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why aren't the coins slabbed? Because not everybody slabs coins. If BigFredd owned this one, it wouldn't be in a slab.  A Morgan like this doesn't need to be in a slab. You can't fake these, not without huge manhours worth of painstaking work which cannot possibly justify the price. This is a headlight, a coin you could not dare to look at the sun's reflection in. At $200, I'd open my wallet 10 times out of ten for it. He's offering an '84-O which is, in my opinion, even better. This one, to the Morgan aficionado, is the rarest of the rare - a DMPL clashed Morgan. Probably only 63, maybe 64, but I'm gnashing my teeth that there's no money in the budget to go strong for it. |
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Nice coin probably an MS-63 PL that has been creatively photographed.
It it were MS-65 DMPL, the seller would slab it.
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that 84-O is the one I was talking about above, that coin is crazy dmpl and makes the one discussed here look like a chump. The 83-O has a DMPL Reverse but not so sure about the Obverse
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that 1884-O sold for quite a bit more than I thought it would but reflects how much of a knockout it was
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Posted 05/09/2011 9:35 pm
