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06-19-2009, 09:28 AM
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| | exsisto magister
Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Indianapolis, IN
Posts: 1,166
My Mood:  | 1909/8 Saint Gaudens.
Just picked this up yesterday afternoon.
I hadn't seen one of these before yesterday. They are not totally uncommon but relatively common. They do command a bit of a premium tho.   
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06-19-2009, 09:46 AM
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| | Supporter**
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Jefferson City, Tennessee
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Dutchman,
Nice coin and nice Over Date! I would love to on a specimen but I am sure that there are way out of my budget!
Frank
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06-19-2009, 09:52 AM
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| | The Other Frank
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: New York
Posts: 16,658
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Great picture.
Nice, clear overdate.
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06-19-2009, 10:37 AM
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| | Just coins dealer
Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: upstate NY
Posts: 1,313
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What a cool overdate and on a gold piece that's striking it rich .
JC
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06-19-2009, 10:57 AM
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| | ANA# R3129541
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Long Island, New York
Posts: 5,902
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Nice indeed...... 
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06-19-2009, 11:22 AM
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| | doggone it people like me
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 3,806
My Mood:  |
Cool deal ! Not many overdates in the "modern era".
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06-19-2009, 12:08 PM
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| | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Charleston, SC
Posts: 418
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I love overdates. Varieties on gold are cool, and uncommon from what I understand. The only ooverdate I currently own is a 29/27 Capped Bust Half.
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06-19-2009, 01:12 PM
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| | krispy
Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Brooklyn
Posts: 2,591
My Mood:  |
WOW! drool, drool... (not on the coin of course)
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06-19-2009, 04:20 PM
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| | Member
Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 52
My Mood:  | This is one of the nicest and most inexpensive of all gold overdates. As much as 1/4 of the total mintage were struck from dies that received blows from both 1908 and 1909 hubs.
You should be able to pick up a good looking AU for only a little more than a normal date.
There was an article in Coin World about 3 years ago on this variety.
RWB
Last edited by RWB; 06-19-2009 at 04:23 PM.
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06-19-2009, 10:36 PM
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| | Indian Buffalo Gatherer
Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: San Antonio
Posts: 6,314
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Well the pictures are great, but that coin is amazing!
You gotta be proud of that one!
Very nice coin
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06-19-2009, 11:03 PM
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| | huldufolk
Join Date: May 2008 Location: Michigan
Posts: 4,281
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Nice job on finding a great coin!
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06-20-2009, 01:14 AM
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| | Coin Hoarder
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 1,277
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That's a very cool coin, would make a great type set example!
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07-04-2009, 06:23 PM
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| | 1909 Collector
Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Calabasas, CA
Posts: 1,088
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The 1909/8 $20 is a very cool coin and you posted a pretty nice example. Like RWB said, the premium on an AU shouldn't be too much as it's not that tough of a coin to find. However, once you get to MS examples, the prices on these (as well as the regular 1909 for that matter) go up significantly. In all grades though, the 1909/8 commands a little bit of premium over the regular 1909 because it's the only overdate in the St. Gaudens $20 series.
Here's my example which I bought as a NGC AU58 and crossed it over to PCGS to include in my Registry set. I think I paid around $1300 for it at the time when a regular 1909 in the same grade was going for maybe $1100.  | 
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