Could not resist buying this on the secondary market. I'm not one for pedigrees, but I find the coin itself, especially the die state incredible! I've not seen it's match for any JR-3 variety. I also love how the original flip calls it "very fine... $3.00."
Nice coin! This is a pretty cool die marriage because it has one of the more extensive cuds/die cracks for this series.
If he called that VF, I wonder what his AUs looked like! It is definitely overgraded at AU-58... 53 is more like what I'd call this one. No doubt, it is incredibly attractive with a cool piece of history. Out of curiosity, has the price of these come down at all? I know that a lot of the Newman coins sold at a very high premium at the original auctions. Do they still carry that large name-premium?
1832 JR-3 is definitely a good variety to have as it is the toughest for this year (R-3+). The C.B.D ID guide specifically mentions the formation of the retained cud in mid-to-late die states, which develops "eventually a full cud from A3 through the arrows". The Guide also shows pictures of an example which appears to be in the same die state as yours. Good, scarce coin and nice pedigree - what else can you ask for.
I'm jealous; nice coin and pedigree. The only pedigree coins I can afford are from the Alfred E. Newman collection.
Green is the one who bought all 5 1913 nickels and then sold them individually. If he was able to acquire all 5 at once the feeling is, it was impossible to get them from circulation, (proof dies were used anyway) and he had to be in cahoots with the clandestine mint worker who produced them, or a go between. Also the upside down plane on a sheet of postage stamps and cut them out and sold them one by one. A sketchy profiteer. He was called a speculator and not a collector. Happy with your coin.
VF meant something very different in the 1930s. Current grading “standards” are not only too easy but also too flexible.
Nice find, I don't know much about the varieties for this one or the Eric P Newman collection but I really like this coin and the comments on it. Thank you
Actually, Green still owned them at his death. They all went to Eric Newman, who sold them individually. Eric and his dealer/mentor Burdette Johnson bought all of the Green pieces that they could afford over a period of time and split them up. The ones Eric kept became the basis of his incredible collection.
