I had a chance to attend CSNS earlier today and at the top of my short wishlist was an Isabella quarter. There were a surprising number of MS offerings to choose from - I was expecting to see more "genuine - cleaned" instead. After running back and forth between two vendors only two tables apart, I opted for this magnificent MS63 beauty - As with 90% of coins I post, the picture doesn't do this coin justice. Even on the lower end at MS63, this retains a surprising amount of original luster and the rainbow toning is much lighter in person - especially on the reverse. Overall, had a lot of fun exploring the show (as always!) and adding a long sought after coin to the collection Big shout out and thank you to Ace of Coins for this one!
I bought this from JJ Teaparty when they had a street level store in Boston many years ago. It's an MS-64. Does anyone remember Bromfield Street? That used to be Boston's "coin alley."
I swear. You always have the best coins. So jealous. Do you have any that are sub-par? They're all nice!
Incredibly minor, but I'd asked the PCGS TrueView team to rotate the obverse image ~12° clockwise. This matches the coin I have (where the dies are well aligned) and is correct die position/rotation. Often times, the TrueView team will rotate images to ensure they're in the "correct position" even if the coin is misaligned. Here, it seems they'd made a mistake; but remedied it phenomenally quickly.
Yes. This 1799 large cent is subpar. It was lucky not to get a "details" grade, but it filled the hole in my "one cent per year" collection. I've got four more large cents to go to finish the set. The date is easily readable, and you can easily see that it is a Draped Bust Large Cent. Do you see the lump between the "E" in "ONE" and the "T" in "CENT"? If the coin does not have a readable date, and more than a few don't, that's the way to tell that it is a 1799. I once saw a "frugal Yankee Trader" coin dealer pay $1,600 for such a coin raw without batting an eye. That impressed me. I've seen dealers ask $3,500 for a dateless 1799 cent in a PCGS holder. That was years ago. I tried to buy one that was fairly nice. I quit when the bid reached $26,000 plus a 20% buyers' fee. That was the highest price ever offered for the grade, prior to that auction, and it still wasn't good enough. I learned my place in the pecking order.
Beautiful Isabella, Dima. Mine was bought when I first started collecting, NGC graded it AU58, with my current knowledge I think they were generous.
