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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 26182171, member: 101855&quot;]I bought this MS-70 graded piece when gold was in the dulldrums and the prices were coming down for the coin. I bought it from a dealer who was totally PO&#039;d and down about the coin. I bought it because the one the mint sent me was a die polished piece of crap. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s what the mint sent to me. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1671572[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the MS-70.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1671574[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>If you buy the raw coin, it came with a very informative book about how modern dies are made with photos and lasers. I don&#039;t know if dealers include it these days. </p><p><br /></p><p>The coin was made from the 1907 Ultra High Relief pattern $20 gold coin which was diameter of a $10 gold piece with double the thickness. It is a very close copy to that coin, and that made it cool in my opinion. Here are the pictures I took of the two surviving examples of this pattern. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1671576[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Mint officials were looking for a way to make a high relief coin for Teddy Roosevelt. It would have taken an Act of Congress to make this coin legal. They struck 20 of them and melted all but two.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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