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1895 O $10

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TomB

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The wingtips, talons and curls above the ear look lightly worn, but O-mint gold is often weakly struck. I would think this piece is AU55-AU58 and it also looks like the surfaces are original.

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DirtyGoldMan

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Looks very nice and original (best I can tell from a photo), AU58ish, probably worth $400-500 to someone who is interested in NO eagles. I would also recommend getting this graded by PCGS or NGC.

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WinstonWare

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So tell us more about this aunt of yours. It appears that she had/has some knowledge in coins and good taste at that. I'm surprised that she didn't tell you more about these coins that she gave you - modesty perhaps?

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TommyBoy

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Well, some people on here have asked me about my Aunt or Grandma. This is a long story, so my appologies now.

 

The person (her name was Maureen) that left the majority of the valuable coins was not my Aunt, but a freind of my Aunt Ruth that she work with at the A&P many, many years ago. Maureen, only had a sister that she was not to close with, so she became a friend of the family. I called her Aunt, because that is what she was like to me.

 

Any way, to make a long story...long tongue.gif, when my Aunt Ruth passed away, we found many IOU made out to Maureen. We threw them away. My father then starting lending Maureen money and we did not keep track of this. I tell you this part because of what I am about to write next.

 

Maureen died about 9 years ago now in January. My parents went to her house to check on her (nobody had been in her house since 1976) and could not reach her by phone nor would she answer the door. What happens next, is what always happens to other people, but not you:

 

My parents called the fire dept. and they pushed a window AC unit into the house...it did not fall to the floor. The firemen intered the house and could not find her. They were crawling out the window again, and then saw her on the bed. The mattress had formed to her body, so it was just a level plane.

 

We entered the house (after the corner left) and found bags and bags and bags of merchandise that she had bought and just left on the floor. She also had not taken out the trash in about 20 years, it was all in the kitchen. It did not smell good. The reason the AC did not fall was that there were newspapers in every room stacked from the floor to window height.

 

Now to the coins. We were notified by the state that there was a safety deposit box. So we go with a state official to the bank and drill the box. It felt like finding a tomb. There inside was all of these coins, along with other items. My two sisters and I were the only ones named, so we split the coins three ways. So my two sisters both have the same amount of coins as I listed. My brother-in-law had a friend whose hobby it was coin collecting, so he gave us the value of the coins. I never knew if he was correct or not. The value has been stated on the board for the coins is far greater that what he told me for mine.

 

So the bottom line is this, we have no idea where she got the coins, nor why she did not sell them when she needed money. We think that she may have recieved them from her sister, but we do not know.

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TommyBoy

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Winston,

 

Nope, she died about nine years ago. She was only dead for about 3-4 days before the fire dept. found her.

 

No one had been in her house since '76, but we saw her all the time at our house, etc.

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zrlevin

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This story is nearly as disturbing as Hayden's story. Did I read that right: She was dead, in the house, for about 20 years?

 

What is Hayden's story?

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