Why would this coin bring so much.

Check out this listing and the bid history. My max bid was $301.
Who can be the first to tell folks what makes this coin special?
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shell bidding?? or people think it's better than xf?????????

 

GSC.....certainly a mixed bag seller with their tricky photographs.

 

I think you mean shill bidding, and, no. That is not the answer.

 

it was a thought. and, sorry, i didn't know the correct term.

 

That's what folks say about this seller but I'm just looking at this one coin.
The seller did not know what it was and it cost him some bucks at what it sold for.

 

A pattern? I have seen some that are very close to the regular issues.

 

Struck thru on the left wing

 

Is that coin a proof?

 

I can't give it away this soon. Think 1857 at the Philly mint.

 

Excuse my ignorance, but mintage figures of the 1857P SL Quarter was 9,644,000 pieces. So what does it have to do with the philly mint?

 

I ask you first.

 

How long are you going to keep us in anticipation?

 

Because that was the price someone was willing to pay for it....the same reason any coin sells for what it does.
Guy~

 

What's the giveaway that it's possibly an impaired proof?

 

:thumb: +1

 

Is it a smoker? Doesn't look like one.

 

Its a clashed reverse die with a Flying Eagle cent-

 

Midnight Minter?