Elbesaar

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Boiler has some of the most

Numismatic Important collections

outside of any museum that I can

think of.

Great Aluminum Pattern Proof Set !!!

So as not to end this Thread ,

Patterns it is then.

You have to know where this

Thread is going to now !!

1900-S PCGS 55

Those are some fabulous patterns, Sir Payne!

Thanks for sharing these patterns. Its a very rare treat.

Bob,

I'm just putting together a choice AU 55+ certified set -

although AU 58 is my grade of choice. Its rare to be able

to acquire so many choice AU coins at the same time.

I also have the same quality coins in raw state in a Dansco

which I started back 15 years ago. I love the raw set and hate

to break it up.

1914-S - PCGS 58

1909-D - PCGS 58

1907-D - PCGS 55

1894-O - PCGS 58

1893-S - PCGS 55

Just picked up a small group of Dimes:

Here's the first one: 1893-O - PCGS 58:

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I received the Baltimore Stack's auction catalog and there's

a nice 1892-O Micro O listed.

 

Edited to add: This NGC 62 - sold for $19,000 plus 15% Buyers Fees.

 

A bargain, IMHO.

 

 

 

The NGC 62 Micro O failed to sell - or for that matter - failed to receive

a bid on the Stack's auction of 3/23/09.

Very tough coin to locate - and once sold - it may not resurface again

for many years. The consignor, HLRC, will be happy to discuss terms

on this coin for anyone so inclined.

PonyExpress8 & Elbesaar discussed this coin at great legnth while at FUN

this past January. PonyExpress8 was seriously thinking of buying the NGC 62

as its a good shot at a 63 - but - I bought the Shireman PCGS MS 63 - and PonyExpress8 bought Elbesaar's PCGS AU 55. Leaving the NGC 62 flapping in the breeze.

Gorgeous Seated half Mike. What was the reason for the target date of 1889?

My Grandfather was born in 1889. Although pleased with the Half

already in the set, the low POP of this coin pushed me to upgrade.

As a side note, my Grandmother was born in 1898 and I upgraded

the Philadelphia version of the Half in my Mint Set, from MS 64 to MS 65.

Just upgraded the Half in my 1889 Proof Set.

Currently I have a PCGS PR 64. This newp is

in a PCGS 65 CAM - which happens to be a

POP-TOP with 3 in 65 CAM and None Finer in CAM.

[ Edit to change the POP total; the catalog said it was a

POP 2 coin; I just checked the PCGS POP Report and

its really a POP 3 coin. ]

The marks are on the old holder. Its going back to

PCGS for True View imaging and a new holder.

1911-S - what I have not seen for many years: "Dappled Toning"

I usually encountered this type of toning on Liberty Head Nickels

in the past. The seller mentioned he hated this type of toning but

I find it to be very original:

....1910-D

... 1910-P

A fellow Barber Dime collector is upgrading his set

and replacing his AU 58's with MS coins.

I was able to pick up five coins I needed for the

Certified Collection.

The following are all PCGS 58's:

[ because of space limitations of only four

images per post - I'll break up the newps. ]

1899-P & 1908-O attached:

We're now on 1957:

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(thumbs u that Barber half has a great look! Congats onthe album compleation, it must be a beauty.

Thanks Bob & Fishfinder - the Barber series is my favorite as you realized

and this 95-S finishes a ten month journey. Most of the coins were certified

by the major TPG's - and I cracked them out.

I've put together three sets of circulated Halves -

and am very - very slowly working on a Dansco

set of Halves in AU+ ; some were BB'd in the past

- some were raw and I didn't think they'd holder.

Here's one that I added some time ago that I bought off

of another collector in Columbia, South Carolina -

[ he submitted it raw to ANACS and it got MS

Details - Cleaned ] Its a nice MS 63 with booming luster.

Call it what you will - its a keeper regardless of what ANACS thought.

Although I posted this to the Barber Thread,

it deserves a mention here under the NEWP

thread.

This coin completes my Whitman album.

Although I wanted a VF 25-35 - they just

arn't available. Here's a decent F-15, raw:

1895-S

This coin completes my old Whitman album: