Did any of you millionaires get in on the Naftzger large cents auction? One has to wonder where coins of this age and quality came from. http://www.coinlink.com/Goldberg/land_062308.html The Husak collection sale earlier this year was another wonder. http://www.coinlink.com/News/us-coins/the-walter-j-husak-collection-of-large-cents/
I could only watch from the sidelines on these sales. My, what awesome collections large cent collectors have had to drool over the past few years.
Some of those little sweethearts are only available once every ten years in those grades. Mind-blowing stuff. One can always window shop !!!
I use the Husak Collection of LCC's for attributing most of the LCC's I run across, just wish I was doing it in person. I hope to someday own just one in that condition! :thumb: Ribbit Ps: I just picked up a 1795 S-76a (lettered edge variety) tonight. I should have it sometime next week and I'll post pics.
I may be wrong here, but I think I saw the Naftzger Large Cent Collection displayed at the ANA show in Milwaukee in Aug 2007. Needless to say, but it was phenomemal and sort of an honor to see these in person. These should be in the Smithsonian, IMO. Have any of you guys seen this live?
For those who would love to own just one of those magnificent coppers, we should ban together and buy just one, then we can share it. 12 of us get together, pool a grand each, then we can bid 12 grand on one and hope & pray to get it. Then we will all own 1/12th of it and get to have it in our possession 1 month of every year, then send it off to next month's holder. :kewl: Sorta like joint custody. I wish it was that easy! Ribbit
coins of that quality get squirreled away so deep in collections that they come out every couple of decades. Sometimes they get tied up for a half century or more.
... and then the specialists realize that a certain coin's availability is literally "the chance of a lifetime". For those fellas, the sky's the limit on bidding. Throw out the price guides ! ...and stay out of the way !!!
Tom Deck had the opportunity to photograph them and he has them posted on his website: http://www.largecents.net/husak/index.html Ribbit
Outstanding ! One of the awesome things about the Huzak catalog is the amount of verbal info provided for each and every coin. Each coin has an entire page to itself. I've never seen a catalog add that much value to the community's literature. Man, that thing is a piece of WORK. Very, very, very useful for Early Large Cent peeps. It's a reference work up there with Sheldon and Breen. The coins are also listed at Heritage online, with all the same info.
I would so kill for one of them. They are all awesome and I hope to one day own one in that condition but that's many moons from now. So I will continue to give homes to those unwanted corroded coppers I find, until I have the kind of money it takes to acquire one in that condition. :thumb: Ribbit
Of the coins shown on the link you provided, S-26, S-29, S-57, S-64, S-69, S-71, S-74 and S-93 were all graded MS-65. The only one graded higher that that was S-67 which graded MS-67. There were a few other MS and about 60% in various circulated grades. Personally, I think that with corrosion, nicks and dings, some of these were graded a bit generously. These are all wonderful coins that I will probably never see in person, let alone own, but it's nice to look at the pictures
