Just Bob

It's amazing -  the stuff of science-fiction movies of my youth will be his normal.

I don't have Alexa, so I know nothing about it. Is there no safeguard against unauthorized users?

Sam's looking good!

(The coins are nice, too)

What do you think is driving the market right now?

Congrats! 

Here is your happy dance

Congrats on the good grades.

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I gotta say, I’m shocked by how ungrateful the wife was through the whole process. Here I am, checking her equipment to make sure the new light works and that it’s compatible with my old light stands and the light stand for her first light and taking some test shots – showing that I can use this to make a set-up to take some really nice beauty shots – of her, of course, using the coins as a proxy – and while I’m doing all this I hear her talking to her mom on the phone, accusing me of “playing with coins.” Sheesh! How ungrateful! (Yup. She reads these. Yes. I will die soon.)

At the very least, you need to take some pictures and post them so we can see what they look like. If they turn out great, you may just have to order a third light.

Gorgeous coin! Let us know what it grades. 

11 hours ago, Discerning eye said:

Crossover at NGC ???? Total waste of money !

Do you feel better after venting your frustration in three different threads?

Just post the other pictures in a reply.

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Have people always been this way?

No. The further removed from hard times like the Great Depression a generation is, the less prepared (or concerned) they seem to be for hard times. Those of us whose grandparents and parents grew up having to struggle just to get by tend to think more like the ant.

Don't you just hate it when your threads get spammed?

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 But it was perfect for my set!

 

I’ve never seen one of these (already graded by NGC) come up for sale before. That doesn’t necessarily mean that it hasn’t happened in all that time, but this is the first one I’ve been aware of while it was for sale.

 

The thing that made this particular example PERFECT for my set is the fact that it’s in an old fatty holder with a 1959XX serial number - quite the emerging feature of the set.

 

But… the melt value of the coin has gone up by about $75 since I bought the 1888 and the 1888 was in a new-gen, pronged holder where this was in an old fatty, and, right or wrong, people tend to ask for premiums for coins in old fatties.

 

Also, while the 1888 is the rare key date of the series, this 1880 issue has the third lowest mintage of the series at just over 50,000 made. And, with the addition of this coin to my set, I have the three lowest mintage issues - all in old fatty holders with 19XXXX serials.

 

... at the end of the day this coin is too perfect for the set and too rare and hard to find for me to let this go over about 5%.

 

Looks to me as if the "pros" far outweigh the "cons." I wouldn't give that extra few dollars another thought.

Nice pick-up. You did good.

Breen, Mehl, Merkin, Zerbe, Norweb, Raymond,  - it's a Who's Who of numismatists! Although I don't see Green, Eliasberg, or Garrett on the list, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that one or more of these coins had passed through their illustrious fingers, as well.

Nice bit of research Well done! 

Yeah, that same thing happened to me a while back. Made an offer about 5 dollars below the selling price - which was around 50 bucks - and the seller countered with an offer less than a dollar below the original price.

No thanks.

Enjoying a tall cup of hot Kona coffee as I type this.

I agree. It doesn't seem possible that he is already a year old.

He looks a lot like you, too.

I bet he turns out to be a coin nerd.

I have a slightly different definition. Years ago, a popular way to store a coin collection was in a cabinet with segmented drawers that were lined with felt. Opening and closing the drawers caused the coins within to slide back and forth, causing ever-so-slight wear on whichever side was on the bottom.

In descending order of desirability, the first would be red, then red-brown, then brown.

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The show was about what I had expected. Lots of Morgan dollars, lots of Peace dollars, and other mixed coinage with some currency and bullion. Some of it was graded. A lot of it wasn’t and lots of 2x2 cardboard flips to look through if you’re into that sort of thing. If I was working on a date set of a certain US series I could see having fun looking through some of that but I’m not right now and so it’s not my thing at the moment.

Reading posts on other chatboards makes me think that some people are convinced that all of the coins worth owning are already in slabs. From my experience, this is far from being true. The last show I attended had thousands of raw coins of all types, including lots of gold. The patient, smart buyer still has plenty of opportunities to find really choice coins, often for a good price.

It is nice to see a picture of a hand holding a coin that has clean, trimmed fingernails, too. That has not been the norm around here these last few years.

Glad to see you back, Mike. Hope your recovery continues without a hitch.

I do not speak Spanish.

According to Google translate, he is offering a deal of two coins for the price of one and a half, and the second post reads as : " Any message that is not related to making a deal does not bother to write do not waste your time or mine"

1 hour ago, OUTCAST said:

At the moment you show up with valuable coin,they want it,and they have your IP address.When you go on eBay or Amazon to sell it for peanuts they know it.Guess who buy it from you for 12 dollars?

Please, OUTCAST, buy that coin from the OP for $12. Give him $20, or even more, if you feel bad about ripping him off.

56 minutes ago, OUTCAST said:

Don't listen to them,they are fake.Beautifull coin,the cracks on it it's not a damage,but 2D drawing,look at it with the proper light and the tool.They want you to believe this wildly_fanciful_statement and sell it on eBay for 20 dollars.

What is your problem? Look in a Red book or at any Capped Bust half site, or NGC's Coin Explorer. All will tell you the same thing: this coin is a fake. If you can't read well enough to see that for yourself, and you are purchasing coins like the OP's coin, you are in for a long, expensive trip.