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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Spunk7, post: 1203367, member: 31071&quot;]I bought a 1889 Princess Head Gold coin today. I mainly bought it because it was the first &quot;older&quot; gold coin I have come across that hadn&#039;t been cleaned or screwed up in one way or another. The guy sold it to me for spot plus 15ish, so I ended up payin like 90 dollars for it. I then went across town to another shop (owned by the same person) to see what they had. They told me the guy who sold it to me got in trouble (half way kidding) as they feel it should have pulled more of a numismatic value. He had their grading &quot;guru&quot; to check it out to see how he thought it would grade. He accidentally said did you see this doubling under wreathe? I said no, as I had not fine tooth examined it. Well the owner at this point start half kidding half not saying he would buy it for a hundred buck, an instant 10 dollar gain. Meanwhile, the &quot;guru&quot; was on the computer looking to see if this doubling was common for this coin. He keeps saying yeah looks like that just the way the coin is supposed to look. The owner now wants to give me a 125. I say, well you guys had me excited for a minute and start saying my good byes as I&#039;m a frequent visitor of our local shops. After realizing the owner wont get it back from me he says, yeah we would prob put a 250 price tag on it, so you made out pretty good on this one.</p><p><br /></p><p>I feel it was needed to write that long intro so you could see where I&#039;m going with this. Now to my point. There is some VERY define doubling around the entire bottom and top left section of the wreathe.&nbsp; There is also strong doubling on a few of the letters in &quot;UNITED STATES OF AMERICA&quot;, with the strongest being the U,I,C, and A. The help I need is someone who knows gold dollar coins well, good grader, or error coin knowledgable to tell me if this was common with theses coins???? I feel like maybe the guy at the shop looking at pictures was saying this so he would have more chance at me selling it back. Or maybe its just wishful thinking on my part. :smile Anyway, I&#039;m going to be on the hunt for my wifes camera now so I can post a pic, but if someone already knows the answer to this please let me know.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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