I was going though some of the collection for an up coming show. Going though some raw Morgan's I discovered this.... 1886 Line in 6 Top 100 Vams Doubled ear an R-4 vam EDS this specimen is much better in hand as the editing makes it look like a lot of chatter in the fields,in fact they are like proof surfaces. Lets see any cherry picks you found in your collection that you just discovered.
Still hoping to discover them, for the most part. (Especially VAMs; I went through a set of ten 1887 Morgans exhaustively checking for VAMs, and decided it was too much of a strain on the eyes and brain.) Does it count if you bought something thinking it was ordinary, then found it was something else when it arrived? I've got some of those stories, but the "discovery" was usually on first inspection.
I haven't cherry picked myself, but oddly, my wife has. I like to collect Ikes among my other collections and she's usually nice enough to get a couple nice ones from the LCS for me each Christmas. I was looking at the coins she got me a couple years ago and discovered that she had gotten a friendly eagle among that year's haul. She doesn't know anything about coins to have been looking for it and it must have slipped by the guys at the shop. Just a very nice surprise when I found it.
I'll assume that, plus is it a cherrypick if it's not published anywhere? I bought this knowing it was an unknown Obverse I transition variety, but after examining later, found that it's also an unpublished 1/1 RPD. I've since purchased a second one with the same Obv1/RPD. (second example)
I published an article on both in the BCCS journal a couple years ago. Good enough for me. Getting something "officially" attributed is a royal pain and I gave up on that.
I don’t know if this applies….. I have owned this old dollar a long time. It wasn’t until I was taking photos for another thread that I discovered it had a super nice clash.
around 10 years ago, I bought a group of 3 common CC Morgans (82-84) from one of the big Coin World dealer/advertisers (you know, the ones who sold dipped sliders as "BU?" Anyway, looking at the date on one I discovered an anomaly.
I bought a lot of coins at a young age. As I got older, I started buying coin books. Next the internet and coin forums came out. For years I was finding cool stuff I never knew I had.
Found these two in my collection. The first is a clash with the die from the $20 gold piece. The second is a DDO with an off center clash on the reverse. Both have a nice value today.
No kidding! I cannot work out in my feeble brain how a clash die for a cent could be a double eagle. Now that is just fascinating to me.
527,150 +349 proofs Many minor varities from 31 obv. 36 rev. Date varies from thin to heavy ,latter with bases of 18 almost or quite touching rarely with traces of repunching on final 1.
