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$255.00

 

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$310

 

@KSorbo, you are the closest. I won it at an overlooked HA auction during the week. I paid $211.50 (all in price). @ddddd

KSorbo You Are The Next Contestant In The Thread.

 

Point totals:
baseball21 - 7 Points
ddddd - 6.5 Points
Beefer518 - 4 Points
Burton Strauss III - 4 Points
Mainebill - 4 Points
jtlee321 - 4 Points
Pickin and Grinin - 4 Points
Paddy54 - 4 Points
heavycam.monstervam - 3 Points
jpcienkus - 3 Points
KSorbo - 3 Points
jwitten - 1 Point
Bman33 - 1 Point
BlackBeard_Thatch - 1 Point
Marshall - 1 Point
Broncoholic - 1 Point

@KSorbo you're up....

 

BTW I didn't think of it as an overlooked HA auction, more a scratch 'n dent special. It was painful waiting through 200 lots for the 3CS, I imagine I'd have killed myself long before the half dollar lots at - what - 800?

 

Here are seller’s photos of a recent pickup, not a fattie but still an older generation NGC holder. As you can see the reverse is weakly struck, but in hand the grade seems accurate strictly judging by the amount of wear. Surfaces are downright pristine compared to other colonials but this is offset by the weak strike. I didn’t realize the overall rarity of Nova Eboracs until after I bought it. My coin is still an R3 despite being the most common of only 4 varieties for the type. Overall survival for the type is estimated at under 1000 pieces.

PCGS Guide has this at $500 for VF20 and $775 for a 35. Keep in mind there is major variation in pricing with Colonials as they don’t fit as well into numerical grades.

 

$925

 

$800

...looks nice, but I think the holder adds little premium in this case (maybe a bit if someone thinks it hasn’t been maxed out/overgraded due to being in an older generation holder). I do think there is a premium on the basis of the coin itself!

 

$875

 

Plus there is the EAC grade, which would be a strict technical grade, to beazlebub with the TPG.

850

 

$675

 

825

 

625

 

How about $725.00

 

$775

 

@Beefer518 wins, but judging by all of your guesses I feel like I also won big . I picked it up in an EBay auction for $331. It ended at 11 pm on a weeknight but it was daytime for me; I put in my last bid while standing in the passport line at Pudong Airport in Shanghai. Someone sniped for the exact same amount so I won it, and since the seller was in the Boston Metro I got it in the mail the day after I got home.

I’m thinking the weak strike reduced the selling price. But I’m happy with the coin and feel like I got a deal as it’s not a type that comes around very often at that price.

 

Nice deal.

I suspect that most serious EAC people hate fleaBay auctions because of the quality (lack of) of the photographs and the pitiful descriptions (at least an EAC dealer I know will shudder if somebody says "eBay" from the other side of the bourse).

 

@KSorbo - That's awesome!
Nova Eborac is the one Colonial I don't have, because typically they're just more money then I'd like to spend. That was a great buy at $331!

Here's what I'm pretty sure is a basement slabber's Washington-Carver commemorative, MS-62.
Company is AACGS (American Alliance Coin Grading Service)

Numismedia - $24
PCGS - $18
NGC - $25
CDN - $21

What did I pay?

 

BTW the photo shows some parallel scratches on the obverse that turned out to be on the holder. The coin looks nicer after I gave the slab some TLC.

 

$8.00