Dreams that come true posted by Villarreal

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1889 CC bought au/raw

 

After reading about those buying raw coins and being disappointed, I present the other side of the...uh...proverbial coin. I preface this by saying, early on, I preferred raw coins and had a great looking set of Morgans in Dansco albums. I was searching for the 1889 CC and found one (on 8/19/2002) on Ebay that i watched and tried to snag at the last minute. It was sitting at $1700 or so and with 3 seconds left, I threw a $3500 bid on it. I won it for $1895. By the pictures posted, I felt it was a strong AU58 and even cleaned would have been worth the bid and then some. I was happy with the coin and it resided in the Dansco for a year or so. After winning a few large collections on Ebay that contained many certified morgans and gold coins, I decided to send in the Morgan keys that I had. I took them to a coin dealer friend who submitted them for me. Imagine my surprise when my friend called me a couple days before Christmas to tell me the grades on my coins. The 1889 CC came back as MS62PL, the one pictured with this post. (sorry about the 'paragraph', not sure how to html)

 

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[mkman123]

WOWZAH!!!!!

[Mohawk]

Congrats!! I love hearing stories like this. I just had one myself. I sent off a 1336/2 Ottoman Turkish silver 5 Kurush......a very VERY rare Ottoman coin. I bought it as an XF-AU, and it graded out as MS 62!!! I was thrilled! It's good for us to share both our good and bad fortunes with grading as it's part of what makes us a great vibrant community. And once again, congratulations on your wonderful coin! I'm not much of a US Classic guy myself, but I can recognize and appreciate beauty when I see it!

[TD Henson]

Agreed. Great score and hence the reason we all do this from time to time.

[coinsbygary]

You hit the proverbial jackpot! Indeed you should get the cherry-pickers coin of the year award for that one. Being a Morgan collector myself, I can only go on dreaming, but as you have shown, dreams can come true. Congratulations on such a nice coin.

Gary

[greysoldier]

Excellent ~ You were clearly the winner with this one !!!

[Jack Robinson]

Congratulations. That coin is fantastic.

 

Jack

[Mr Bo Jingles]

JACKPOT! Well done! Beautiful coin!

[johnny9434]

congrats on the nice score all the way around

[coin928]

Wow! I've had a few winners, but nothing like this. Congratulations!

[moondoggy]

Fantastic !!! Now that is what I would call a BIG TIME WINNER

 

That is the chance you take when dealing with raw coins but sometimes you just may hit the jackpot on one, like you did with this one. What is the ol saying, "nothing ventured, nothing gained"

 

 

Mike

 

 

[AstroTrain]

AWESOME!!!