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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BigTee44, post: 1835020, member: 41883&quot;]So one of the coin shops I go to has a really nice dealer who likes to share coin stories about the things that he&#039;s collected and gained over the years. He told me about some old bills he had and busted out the Grey sheet and in even low grades they were fetching like $125k each. So after shooting the breeze with him I told him I wanted a nice common date double eagle when he came across one, he said how about a $4 Gold Stella. I told him I&#039;d never heard of one of those and he just smiled and said oh okay I&#039;ll let you know if I come across a double eagle. </p><p><br /></p><p>A few weeks passed by and I called him to see if he had any new stuff in, which was just a first year Canada gold coin graded by NCG(wife said no..), so I asked him if he&#039;d bring in that $4 Gold Stella in for me to look at the next time I came up(2 hour round trip) He started laughing and said that coin doesn&#039;t leave the deposit box. I just said oh okay it must be a pretty expensive coin and told him I&#039;d talk to him later(not before he asks me if I want to buy a coin shop; he&#039;s ready to retire to AZ he&#039;s told me)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here I am today flipping through my Red Book when I actually see the $4 Gold Stella.... now I understand. I don&#039;t know what year or variety it is but looking at just the 1879, it&#039;s expensive!! </p><p><br /></p><p>Amazing a small coin shop in the middle of nowhere came across a coin with less than 500 coins produced. Although I can never afford something like that, it&#039;d be nice to just be able to see a coin that rare.</p><p><br /></p><p>Has anyone in this forum ever had the chance to view/hold a $4 gold coin?</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess it still amazes me how little I know about all of the US coins that are out there that I&#039;ve never seen or heard about before.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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