AnkurJ Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 Lovely design! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny9434 Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 wtg on the pick up brandon. congrats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerseycat10 Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 AJ, that is a beautiful '21! I have been looking for one for months, and I'm still looking. It's hard to find a nice '21...but this one is super nice! (thumbs u Ditto!! Thanks guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnkurJ Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 PCGS XF45 and just passed CAC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elbesaar Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 (edited) This coin finishes my Father's Birth Year Collection. EDIT: Here is the link to the complete 1917 Collection... of course, the Mint Errors are not included. http://coins.www.collectors-society.com/registry/coins/SetListing.aspx?PeopleSetID=45632 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EDIT: Newp for the `1891 Mint Set - My Grandmother's Birth Year Edited June 2, 2012 by Elbesaar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
physics-fan3.14 Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 I wasn't going to.... I swore I wouldn't buy any more coins for a while... I was selling some stuff to pay for some bills.... and then Ankur had to go and list a group of gorgeous Busties on his website. Darn you, Ankur. You know I have a weakness for gorgeous, toned, EF Bust halves. Darn you, Ankur. Well, now I'm waiting to hold these in my hands, and hope they look as good as the pictures: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brg5658 Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Whenever I find something somewhat "obscure" with a horse on it and in an NGC slab I usually bid on it. I have a couple similar medals to this one. There are a lot of medals ou there which commemorate centennial, bicentennial, or in this case a tercentenary of a particular town. If my memory serves me correct, NGC doesn't really grade these kind of pieces anymore (as many are not included in official medal listings or indexed by someone). Anyway, I thought this one was nice with horses on both sides, and a nice antiqued high relief design. Nice thing about these "obscure" pieces is that you can usually get them for basically nothing too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkman123 Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 neat coins all! BRG, that medal is very detailed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nunfa0 Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Great coins and medals everyone!! Mike, congrats on your fathers birthyear set. It is an awesome tribute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jom Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Long Beach show newps jom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nunfa0 Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Nice Jom!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnkurJ Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Very nice Jom! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberspaceVoid Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Jom, nice pick ups! Just wish I had time to get to the shows as I find the pre-auction bidding a total waste of time Oh well, I heard I got the nod for a new posting in Russia so maybe I can pick up some real sleepers. Perhaps I should post a few Russian gold pieces I have laying about to celebrate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rrantique Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Very nice Jom! (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elbesaar Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Jom, You did yourself proud, my man ! All beauties... and yes I know you thought I owned all the Barbers out there in the market place at one time or the other, but, believe me, I never owned that Half !! I especially like the Dimes as well... and my meager CBD set is missing a nice 1837 - what is the grade of your's ? My set is 53-58 and I am only doing a date set - no varieties. The seated Dime is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jom Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 You did yourself proud, my man ! Yeah, I did myself proud by paying too much. All beauties... and yes I know you thought I owned all the Barbers out there in the market place at one time or the other, but, believe me, I never owned that Half !! You own all high end AU Barbers. I figured as much years ago because you could never find any nice ones. YOU had them all...don't deny it! I especially like the Dimes as well... and my meager CBD set is missing a nice 1837 - what is the grade of your's ? My set is 53-58 and I am only doing a date set - no varieties. The seated Dime is The 1837 Dime is graded AU55 by NGC and, IMO, not much better than AU53 really. It's nice but I was able to get the price down so it's not a big deal. I'm doing the same with Dimes as you. I've got a 21, 27, 28, a newp 33 I don't have a photo of yet, this 37 and a 36. I don't do varieties either....which means we are competing....and because of the latter it also means I'm in trouble. The Seated Dime...well...it isn't a Dime at all. Look again! It's a Half Dime. AU55...very pretty though. jom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elbesaar Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 I need better reading glasses !! Nice HALF Dime !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsshog40 Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 Nice Newps this wknd!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyMan Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 Wow... a LOT of beautiful coins. Congratulations everyone on the Lovely pickups!!! I particularly like AJ's 1921 Peace dollar and Jom's LB pickups. (thumbs u (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brg5658 Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 With a provenance from LeeG and Physicsfan, I'm very happy with this new piece for my type set. Thanks Jason! It's a stunner. -Brandon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnkurJ Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 VERY NICE BRANDON! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
physics-fan3.14 Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Good pics, but they make it look darker than it really is: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brg5658 Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Jason you are correct. My posted pictures were fast and dirty attempts. The one's below are the one's I uploaded to my type set. Better? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
physics-fan3.14 Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Hey, I have a candidate for a coin I regret selling..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brg5658 Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Hey, I have a candidate for a coin I regret selling..... We're young, we can trade it back and forth every 5 years or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elbesaar Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Brandon, Gotta love the 1935 Dime - its a beauty !! I picked up a pair of mid grade Dimes for my fledgling set... The 1918-S is oh, so close to FSB... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jom Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Mike The 18-S really is a FB except for that hit. Oddly, my 19-S has a similar problem. Frankly, it is a joke that those types of near FB are so undervalued. The fact is many like yours are better struck than many so-called FB examples....that's the irony of the whole thing. It's just stupid, IMO. jom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elbesaar Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Jom, Here's the 19-D I picked up at Central States in April... same problem... its a hair breath away from FSB's !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jom Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 (edited) OK, this isn't a newp (I've owned it almost 20 years now) but I think it's a joke. Sure, you can say it isn't strictly FB but only in the coin market is a FB coin worth 5X-6X this particular coin. But that's the coin market. Bizzaro World. jom Edited June 5, 2012 by jom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brg5658 Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Love the newps guys, but what happened to the etiquette of not posting images wider than around 1000-1200 pixels? Those images are ridiculous sizes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
