Silver Three Cent Pieces(Trimes) (1851-1873) Let's see them

Nice strike on that 51O - see how the diamond, orbs and even the top bar in the reverse C are full?!? Lovely...

 

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I so want a 51-O. My one and only trime for my type set (o-type and u.s. type).

 

Well, what do you want (raw, certified)? Details OK? Grade? Special features like well struck?

They are out there, just not a lot of nice pieces.

For example, for my coins in circulation as of set, I've been looking for a year.

I wanted an 1851O in VF with a decent strike. Raw would be OK (I have an NGC membership). As a general rule (although I do have one in my 3cs collection) I avoid the Stacks 57th St collection - most of the lower grades are IMNSHO gifts from NGC to Stacks.

NGC has graded 466, plus 94 details graded. Of those only 20 are VF.
PCGS has graded 628 (details unknown). Of those, (VF20, 25, 30, 35): 4 11 17 10 or = 42.

Numismedia says 92$ in VF20, 216 in XF40. So I was looking to pay not much more than 150.

There is one PCGS VF25 on eBay, has been there for 9 months if I remember correctly, at 195 BIN - but I just found myself consistently not loving it. People want $200 for raw VFs and I'm not loving most of them.

Most I saw on the show circuit were VG at best. One dealer had an OK one, but wouldn't budge from $200 (raw).

Kept looking.

And looking.

And looking.

Eventually an NCG VF35 shows up in a 1 day auction with a reasonable starting price. Only attracted two bidders and four bids. I put in a reasonable bid early on and let eBay walk it up 1 advance over the other guy. For a price I'm comfortable paying and a coin I really like...it has that grey-silver toning with the high points worn down slightly.

Not a great photo, but...

 

Found a better pair of shots from a 2014 thread:



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I just bought this one last week actually! Really like the design, it's just a shame they are so darn hard to photograph.....and easily misplaced too, lol
~1862/1

 

Nice clash.

 

Really nice coin however I believe that it's not a 62/1 I do believe that it is a repunched 6 and if you study my 62/1 in this thread you'll see the difference . In the 6 and the 2.
Now the real kicker is you may be better off . As the 62/1 has been refuted and if you do the over lays the person who is saying this is spot on.
What there isn't is a listing for a repunched date on the 62 . The 6 is repunched look at it. And is a different 6 then is on the 62/1

 

This is possibly my all-time favorite image set. It was shot back in March 2007, and I had just acquired my first high-quality imaging setup - an 8MP Canon Rebel XT (350D) and 100mm Macro lens. These were the third and fourth images shot with the camera on the first day I set it up, and the very first with the 100mm Macro. When I viewed them in full resolution on my screen for the first time, they completely astounded me. I'd already done enough with point-and-shoots to realize you could create really nice images of coins - I was pretty good at that already - but this was in a completely different league from anything I'd ever done. It's a testament to the inherent quality of the 100mm Macro lens - I really had no clue what I was doing at this point, everything was set on Auto - and this is what it gave right out of the box. It could be said that this coin started me on the road of photography being as integral a part of my numismatic experience as the coins themselves.

Kinda pretty coin, too.