Very nice coin - you now have the excuse to get the MS65/66 as another date and start a new set.

I think you got a good buy also, congrats on the newp.

Very nice pickup! 

That copper spot wouldn't bother me in the slightest, I actually hadn't noticed it at first until I read the journal. That's right, I skipped right to the coin. 

Like toning, a copper spot appearing in just the right place can make the coin more attractive. I'm NOT a SGDE fan but one coin had a copper spot on Liberty's torch, just the flame, and that just looked really cool. 

On 2/10/2022 at 6:31 AM, Fenntucky Mike said:

Very nice pickup! 

That copper spot wouldn't bother me in the slightest, I actually hadn't noticed it at first until I read the journal. That's right, I skipped right to the coin. 

Like toning, a copper spot appearing in just the right place can make the coin more attractive. I'm NOT a SGDE fan but one coin had a copper spot on Liberty's torch, just the flame, and that just looked really cool. 

I was scrutinizing the coin perhaps a bit more than you were because I wanted to make sure that the coin matched the label and that it was a 20 Kr and not a 10 Kr, because I've gotten excited in the past thinking I've found a coin at a nice price only to realize that the coin is a smaller denomination (but from the same era with a very similar design) than the one I wanted and therefore the price is less attractive than I first thought.  So I look at dates and denominations and that spot is right between the date and the denom. Then I really got into the weeds of looking at it and the NGC pictures to make sure it matched up.  

That does sound like it could have been an interesting SGDE. I like the SGDE, more for the eagle than for the Obverse. I think it's a pretty eagle. I do think that some European coinage from the time is better looking though and arguably more interesting (and, on the whole, better values). I would love to have SGDEs from my Grandparent's birthyears though and those are bucket coins.  That said, I'll take a coin with that SGDE design over a Ukrainian coin.  

On 2/10/2022 at 9:39 AM, Revenant said:

I wanted to make sure that the coin matched the label and that it was a 20 Kr and not a 10 Kr, because I've gotten excited in the past thinking I've found a coin at a nice price only to realize that the coin is a smaller denomination (but from the same era with a very similar design) than the one I wanted and therefore the price is less attractive than I first thought.

Yep, been there. I've almost been burned before because of that, but not yet.

On 2/10/2022 at 9:39 AM, Revenant said:

I like the SGDE, more for the eagle than for the Obverse. I think it's a pretty eagle.

Definitely the more attractive of the two sides IMO. 

On 2/10/2022 at 9:39 AM, Revenant said:

That said, I'll take a coin with that SGDE design over a Ukrainian coin. 

HA! Ouch!  No argument there in regards to standard circulating coinage, but the truth still hurts.  Probably why there isn't a single, standard, Ukrainian circulating coinage set in the registry.

I've toyed with the idea of a U.S. coin birthyear set/s but.... Maybe one day when I circle back to U.S. coins.  

On 2/10/2022 at 10:19 AM, Fenntucky Mike said:

Probably why there isn't a single, standard, Ukrainian circulating coinage set in the registry.

I can't imagine it helps. I'll waste money on worthless coins I like (Zimbabwe) or which my wife connects to (500 L) and not care about them being bad "investments," but even I feel no such inclination for ugly coins.