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The coin in hand is more toned then the picture.

 

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Nice Nickels, let's see the rest!

Some new miscellaneous stuff for me:








A beautiful natural toned clad Kennedy that fits right in with my other Kennedy clad toners.


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Greg, I would commit crimes no man could think of just for those washington quarters! :thumb:

 

I bought yesterday for 5€ these 2 coins
Grade suggestions?



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I get a lot of toners from Kryptonitecomics on E bay. He's one of the founding members of the toned coin society, and has gorgeous stuff. You just have to be willing to be aggressive at his auctions, as there is a lot of competition, since he's got incredible looking consignment coins!

 

Drool. That new acquisition fits in beautifully with your other incredible toned Kennedys, Greg

 

More attack of the top pop. This one PR66+CAM, CAC, 1/0 POP

 

"won", if you call paying many, many multiples of PCGS price guide winning, this beauty on Heritage last night for the AU58 type set. I can honestly say that finding an AU58 merc with FB is near impossible, hence why I jumped on this one. Can't wait to see it in hand.

 

Wow, I must be terrible at guessing grades, because this certainly looks MS to me. It must be the diminished luster and breaks in luster on the obverse that pushed it down to an AU. What do you think?

 

I simply can't get good pics through the holder that show the detail of the coins and the color at the same time. There are a couple that have 4 steps but I don't think any would make full...mostly in the 65 range though a couple might go 66.

Heres a couple that show the color better.



At this point, I'm really thinking of breaking her open

 

Couple more

 

141 years ago today was the start of The Great Chicago Fire which burnt a large portion of the city to the ground October 8-10, 1871. I grew up in the Chicago area so I learned a great deal of the history how this great fire, although quite tragic and a major disaster, was one of the reasons for Chicago's greatness in the years after the fire. Chicago really did rise like a phoenix from the flames.

Following the fire, the bell from the Chicago Courthouse which had burnt down was melted and turned into various relics which were sold off as souveniers. I have seen miniature bells that were produced as well as medals which were struck by the U.S. Mint. 500 medals, designed by William Barber, were struck the following year in 1872 by the Mint with metal from that Courthouse bell. The medal is approximately 51mm in diameter and is listed as CM-13 in the Julian reference. I've wanted to acquire one of those pieces for sometime and recently I picked one up. It's a beautiful design, though this example does have a few scratches on the side with the phoenix. I went for this one in particular because it has a box (original?) with it that I thought added to the coolness of it a bit.









Here's a pic of the Courthouse Bell after the fire from the Chicago Historical Society website:

 

OOOOh that's mighty purty!

 

illini420 - I really like that Chicago fire medal! I also grew up in Chicago, and really enjoyed seeing that one. Do you go with the theory of the cow kicking over the lantern, or the meteor theory (that coincidentally may have started the Peshtigo, WI fire)?

 

I'll pm you my address. K thanks.

 

Haha! Sounds good. I'll just drop them off since we're pretty close. They honestly are totally killer...the pics just can't do 'em justice. There are about 3-4 that I really wanna bust out and take proper pics of and get graded just cause they are so nice.

 

New raw proof from eBay.

 

Definitely not Mrs. O'Leary's cow... the guys that wrote up that story retracted it and admitted it was made up sometime in the 1890s I believe. But it seems that the story was just too good to dismiss

I've heard a lot about the meteor (actually I a comet I think) that may have caused the fires (a few others at the same time as well). But from what I've read on the matter, meteors don't cause fires when they strike as they have already cooled down enough by the time they hit the ground. Of course, a meteor striking could have knocked over Mrs. O'Leary's lantern I guess... but surely there would be several eyewitness accounts of such an event as a meteor striking in downtown Chicago, right???? Also, if it were a comet and not a meteor, I've read that those typcially blow up in the atmosphere and create large explosions and don't hit the ground.

It might just be a coincidence that so many fires started at that time. The area was in a severe drought at the time so the outbreak of multiple fires would not necessarily have to be related.