Let's see your newest acquisitions!

Thanks Green! Lotta nice coins on this thread lately.

 

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I agree. Just a wonderful view from here......

 

Here is my professional opinion from my many years in the business.

HOLY MOLY that thing is GORGEOUS!
Are you kidding me? That coin will blow the socks of anyone you show it to.
Truly spectacular.

 

Thanks, clay. I really wasn't fishing for compliments by posting this, but I'll gladly take them! I tend to be really hard on coins and a very cautious buyer.

 

Thanks!! Yeah, both business strikes, the IHC is an MS66RD and the 1909 VDB is an MS67RD, both very high end for the grade and do look like brand new pennies!!

I understand what you're saying, I go to shows and rarely see full red large cents and half cents. But they do exist. I've even seen a handful of full red cents and half cents from pre-1800 (check out the Cardinal collection!!). They are extremely rare of course. But when you look at Lincolns of almost any date, even back 100+ years, there are plenty of full red examples available. Same goes for Indian Cents, even back to around 150 years old now, there are lots of red coins out there for most dates. I don't know all of the reasons why this is the case for the small cents, but not the large cents.

Surely it has quite a bit to do with the handling and storage of these coins and not just the copper itself turning brown over time. I think it has more to do with the growth of coin collecting in the mid-19th to late-19th century and that collectors were just saving more nice examples of coins. In the late-18th Centry and early 19th-Century, the Mint didn't even save examples of their coins each year... and based on surviving examples today, it's apparent that very few collectors did as well.

And remember, if folks saving Indian Cents in the late 19th-Century managed to save them and pass them along to future collectors who happened to keep them full red until 2011 using the storage methods of their time (bags, rolls, cardboard albums, paper envelopes, etc.), I'm much more confident that my modern storage of the coins in inert plastic slabs and flips will do even better to keep coins full red for a very long time. Beyond that, I keep my high-value red copper slabbed coins in Intercept Shield boxes for a little extra piece of mind. I live in a relatively low-humidity area so I'm not as worried about that as people in other areas may be.

 

Just won these today and for under Twenty Dollars!!
Any marks you see are just camera reflections.
This is a good day. lol
Please take a look at my new article and let me know what you think!
http://coinauctionshelp.com/Coin_He...abs-collectors-who-buy-the-slab-not-the-coin/
Alan

 

Great post, illini; I like your thoughts about the significance of the hobby's growth as it pertains to this. BTW, I've checked out in the past Cardinal's collections (breathtaking and inconceivable to me to have the ability to assemble such coins) and also your '09 Mint Set—very nice! Quite superb.

You'll appreciate this story: a couple of years ago a member of our Grand Rapids Coin Club presented his 2 cent collection, which at the time was PCGS's top-ranked set (he has since lost that title). Every coin was 65 or 66 RD, no spots, a spectacular set to behold. As proud of his set as he was, he related to me his honest suspicion that the coins could still have their original, absolutely clean, red surfaces. It's very likely some or even all had, but there will remain that gray area of doubt in a lot of collectors, I think.

 

This isn't exactly a "latest acquisition" but it is a "latest discovery": a 1959 DDR Franklin half

 

I agree. Fantastic coins being posted of late. Great visual candy.

I just bought this Sunday Night.
This is about as unique a toning pattern as I've seen.

 

1904-O Morgan Dollar

:thumb:WLib!!
Wow Very Nice toned Gem!!!!
WOW!!!!:kewl:

 

Clay, fantastic luster on that New Rochelle!

I just bought these two Walking Liberty Halfs. It's funny but with spectrum of coins I have, an uncirculated WL was still missing from my type collection. I've been looking for a colorfully-toned gem with eye-popping appeal to fill that hole for a while, so I thought I would check these two out. It's interesting but white coins with blooming luster are easy to find, and most of the toned WLs I found seemed to go to black. Colorfully-toned Walking Libs with great visual appeal are a lot harder to find than you would think.

Of these two, the top one has great, evenly distributed red and gold color on both sides and a little bit of green starting to work in along the rim in spots. Very striking. PCGS gave it an MS66 grade and blessed the toning as natural.

The bottom one is more subtle and graded two steps lower at MS64 by PCGS, but it's got that nice blue, green, and amber rim toning and great luster.

I'm curious, which one do you all like better?

 

Wow, you've posted some dazzlers there, Winged :smile

 

First coins I've won on HA.com

 

Congratulations Merc Crazy!!!

Stunningly beautiful mercs.
I can't decide which one I like more.
I like that bit of color on the top one, nice pattern with no black.
But the luster on the bottom one is GREAT.

What do these grade 67? or 68?

 

:thumb:Wow some very nice acquisitions !!! who said the coin market is dead?just maybe folks are being very picky with the funds
:kewl:?

 

Heh, neither. 66FB on both. Got 'em for what? $42 each shipped? Gonna keep one and sell the other. I'm picking up a bunch of Mercs in rattlers on Friday too, looking forward to receiving that lot.

 

Two new romans I got so cheap, I did a happy dance and splurged on more that should arrive in a few days.


FAUSTINA Sr. (138-141 AD)

Silver Denarius
DIVA FAVSTINA
Draped bust right.
AED DIV FAVSTINAE
Hexastyle temple of diva faustina, containing seated statue of the deity, trellis-work fencing in foreground at foot of steps.
RIC 343
17mm
3.2g


MAXIMINUS ( 235 - 238 A.D)
Silver Denarius

MAXIMINVS PIVS AVG GERM
Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right.
PAX AVGVSTI
Pax standing facing, head left, holding olive branch and transverse scepter.
RIC 019
RSC 037
20mm 3g

 

Holy Mc Mat, those are beautiful. Congratulations to Merc for his new purchase experience over at HA.

 

Two sets in one week I'm happy!
Alan

 

I like those reverses. Especially the cow skull and the eagle.