1916 Walking Liberty with "LIBERTY" on front?

:secret: OK, so I just confirmed who the seller is....

I checked a few of the listings/images and saw the same label on the back of each coin holder. It included the letters "RLHE" and a phone number, which is the number for well known dealer Robert L. Hughes. He was one of the three dealers on my guess list.

 

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Well, that settles that!

 

Good to hear that this is actually a well respected dealer. I never said he wasn't, I was just being justifiably cautions and suspicious.

 

I don't blame you in the least. Now, as for the "well respected" part - that depends largely on his cash flow.

 

Confirmed Mark's comments.

 

Or in the case of places like Coin Vault I have seen them in the past list stuff on eBay with ridiculous prices and then make claims on the air that these pieces are listed on eBay for said prices to bolster credibility for their on-air pricing.

 

I always wondered where they got those ridiculus prices , guess that's one way .
rzage

 

It appears to me to be twice the regular retail price fairly consistently.

 

I would certainly be cautious with a seller who has low feedback or is a new seller just because they don't have much of a history on eBay. But, I can't imagine buying really high end coins on eBay anyway. I just don't trust eBay enough. I would think if the seller really wanted to sell these coins they would be on HA...which is a much more respected and serious venue for high dollar coins IMHO.

 

Could the seller be Bobby Hughes?

 

While I know this coin is graded by NGC, IMO, it still looks like it has hairline scratches running from 11 to 4 o'clock. While it may be on the slab itself some of the scratches look to be going right over the B in LIBERTY. This being a rare and expensive coin, I can see NGC overlooking the cleaning that may have been done to this coin.

Anyone else think this has been cleaned?

Bruce

 

What I think this is , is way of getting cheap National advertising exposure. Not only on ebay, but we're talking about him too.Yes you can get the high rollers on Heritage but, although they're huge, I think you'll get more views on ebay. Most people click "view seller's other items" and in most cases you'll find the cheaper stuff.The high starting bid is a hook, cuz even if you can't afford it, you just have to look........................John

 

That looks like mint-made die polishing to me, and I have seen it on other 1916 pattern Walkers. I do not think that it is cleaning.

 

The 1916 patterns were made as engineering samples not as premium pieces for collectors. Some of the pieces that grading services call “proof” are clearly identified in Mint documents as having been made on normal presses as production samples. Little care was give the patterns at the time since they were nothing more than curiosities and not real coins.