Although probably impossible...

Is that yours? Either way that's a nice coin. The little black speck near the drapery on the right would annoy me though. It looks like something that would blow right off.

 

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I have a relatively large collection of no stars dimes dated 1837 & 1838 in this grade. It is probably the closest I will ever come to owning a Golbrecht dollar design.

Here is an AU58 dime in a PCGS holder. Would you rather have the NGC coin with the small spot or the PCGS coin with the toning? Both slabbed coins are graded AU58.

 

I like the NGC one better.

 

They are the same coin. :devil:

NCS conserved the coin & then NGC re-slabbed it.

 

I'm in agreement with you. I personally don't consider the 1913 LHN part of the set and if I ever get around to "completing" my set...it's not a coin I would strive to include. That said, if I owned one...I would group it with the LHN collection.

 

Oh wow, that is a night and day difference.

 

Frankly I wouldn't even care to own all US coins minted. Eliasberg collected a lot of stuff, even foreign stuff. Some of what I have seen being offered in auctions really has no other meaningful appeal other than being once owned by Eliasberg.

I'd rather own a dekadrachm from Athens, a real Konstantin ruble and one of the Sestoresk rubles in bronze, and one of the Pan Pac $50s than most of the drivel that the US mint has defecated out.

 

Louis E. Eliasberg was the only person known to have ever completed a set of US coins, all of them. He did in fact own a 1913 Liberty Nickel. He owned the finest one as a matter of fact, his specimen is graded by PCGS as PR-66 and it sold for $5 Million a few years back to an unnamed collector from California.

 

I guess sometimes it's too time consuming/boring to read all the prior posts, and discover that certain information has already been posted.

 

Is there an echo in here?

 

Were the 1913 Lib nickels ever monetized?

 

No. Of course the term "monitized" had no real meaning at that time. Today they say that the coins have not been "Monitized" until they have gone through the Federal Reserve. (Oh really? Do all the proof sets, mint sets, 5 ozers, and bullion coins go through the Federal Reserve? Doess that mean none of them are "Monatized"?) The 1913 LHN was produced before the Federal Reserve. At that time coins became "money" once they were turned over by the coiner to the Cashier. The 1913's never went through the Cashier or the Federal Reserve so no they have never been "monitized".

 

Thanks Condor. I guess Eliasberg own one because
he could rather then needing it as an official
U.S coin.