The First Goodacre Presentation Dollar

[Lastufka Collection]

...graded by NGC.

 

As past readers of my journal will know, I’m working on completing the 100 Greatest U.S. Modern Coins set. I recently bought a Goodacre Presentation Sacagawea dollar in its original ICG holder, #2,358 of 5,000 and sent it off to NGC for grading. NGC had not previously graded this variety before the publishing of the book.

 

My Goodacre Presentation dollar received a grade of MS 68 DPL. Cool!

 

NGC confirmed for me that this was the very first Goodacre Presentation dollar they have ever graded, which is a neat little tidbit of information for this coin’s history. In fact, co-author of the 100 Greatest U.S. Modern Coins book, Scott Schechter (vice president at NGC), wrote me personally and said:

 

“I did see it when it was at NGC. It was a nice example and very deep prooflike.”

 

Again... cool!

 

I’m currently only 18 coins into the 100 Greatest set, but I’m having a lot of fun hunting them down and learning the history of each piece as I go. The gold coins will probably have to wait until after spot prices pull back a little, the 2009 UHR has gone up over $300 in price on some dealer’s websites in just the last month. Ouch. But the silver and clad pieces on the list seem to be holding steady.

 

I don’t have it in hand yet, it’s still making its way home from Florida. But here’s NGC’s scan: http://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/CertResults.aspx?CertNumber=2560958-001

 

Anyway, just wanted to share the above info with everyone. Happy collecting!

 

[for some reason my journals don't post to the forums, so I manually post the ones I think might interest more than just my few followers on the registry]

[physics-fan3.14]

Very nice. I've got a DPL 2000D from the Millenium set, I guess I'm going to have to get one of these now. Sorry for the scratched up slab, this is graded 66DPL.

 

[jerseycat10]

Nice work Alan, a very interesting coin, and a privelege for yourself to be the 1st to get one holdered by NGC.

[Schatzy]

Awesome!!

[erwindoc]

Very cool to have the first of anything graded by NGC.

[nunfa0]

Excellent stuff Alan, a coin to treasure just for the story.