My Latest Addiction Has Been New Orleans $10 Gold

Greetings Collectors,

Over the last 18-24 months the $10 Liberty has been the focus of my collecting, along with a nice Franklin Half when a worthy one comes along. In gold I have picked up a total of seven from the New Orleans mint. I think the last time I entered a coin was a $10 Liberty, but it wasn't from N.O. but was just a couple posts ago and it was an 1905-S.

I'm unsure if other collectors go on a tear with one series for a while, then change gears and go into another series with a vengeance. But that is the way I have always been. Don't get me wrong. I have my favorites which in silver is the Franklin Half in business strikes. But I have been all over the place with several other series of coin sets. Gold has always been a favorite of mine but since the $20 Liberty gold is priced out of my range, the ten dollar gold has been my favorite replacement series.

I think that at last count I am at #15 now. 13 slabbed and two being sent off as soon as my welcome package arrives. I am very excited to see what the grades will end up being on the two I am sending off, after they return. I, as I am sure many of you have been, very disappointed at times with the grades assigned on certain past submissions. But we get what we get and that is what we have to work with unfortunately.

So anyway I am going to share just the O-mint coins one at a time that I have at present, which I think you all may have seen a couple out of the six I have slabbed. I have the 1881-O that has been cracked out because the grade was so ridiculously low, I'm almost sure the VF-30 will come back in high XF or maybe even a low to middle AU. It's one of the coins I am going to use my 5-coin coupon on. Several of these tens are of very low mintage's and populations which is pleasing considering what the prices were. I feel very blessed to have acquired them for what I paid considering their rarity.

Anyway this is a nice 1906-O that has very clean surfaces and as soon as I reduce the file size I will enter it into my set of other "tens". The eye appeal of this 06-O looks far nicer than the grade assigned IMO.

As always I wish all the best to all of you and I can hardly count all the messages I have received from very dear friends, along with notes from new friends as well. Thank you all very much. The silver to gold ratio this evening stands at 64.766 to 1.

Happy Collecting,

WKF