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Originally Posted by jaceravone  Sorry Ruben, I thought I actually responded to this, but I must have gotten side tracked. As of lately, I have been into IKEs, especially since I believe I found a Proof 71 DDO and Proof 72 DDO. There is a coin auction tomorrow and once I can get some other coin folk to confirm my find, I will be sending them into PCGS.
Therefore, my only comment to your original post would be that this guy must be a really, really, really big fans of IKEs and knows everything inside and out of the coin to determine that he had something special. To someone like myself, I may have noticed something out of line, but wouldn't have thought about it being a pattern coin. Its the same as those individuals who are big Morgan lovers and can pick out a VAM with a quick glance. To me, they would all look the same. You have to really know every aspect of the coin in question to identify something as unique as that.
PS - and yes, I did read the article and thought it was really neat and only hope one day I can be as fortunate. |
There were two aspects of this which sort of make me shake my head. Unless there were no 1971 Proof S, the very minor differences between the strikes would be very uninteresting to me and to call it a Pattern, I believe would be Hyperbole. They must have had dozens or hundreds of dyes in production and, so what, one got through with variation. It would be at best a VAM, just another die oddity. Now tell me it is a 1970 -S pattern, then you might have something. This just doesn't justify a 10,000 price tag, IMO.
Stranger was the story of a guy who found a MS clad coin in a Blue proof envelope. they attributed as an error coin, a wrong Panchete? Eigh, fools gold. A clad coin fell into the hopper and the Proofs and MS's were so similar, nobody noticed. Big deal.
Ruben
