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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 3589114, member: 101855"]Okay, here are some more Dahlonega Mint coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1850-D gold dollar is one of the tough coins in the set. It was very poorly struck, and almost all examples are unattractive. Have I seen Mint State examples of this coin offered? Yes, but I did not set out to buy a "break the bank" set. This one is an EF-45</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]958858[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]958859[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1851-D gold dollar is one of the easier dates to find. It is the secomd most common date behind the 1849-D. This one has a few too many marks, but the surfaces are original.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]958860[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]958861[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1852-D gold dollar falls in the middle ground for rarity. It is rarer than the 1849-D, 1851-D and 1854-D coins, but not up there with the 1850-D and 1854-D coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]958862[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]958863[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1853-D gold dollar is one of the more common dates, but it holds a special place for me. The first gold dollars, and the first Dahlonega coin that I ever saw was an 1853-D gold dollar. I was in the fifth grade at the time, and had only started to collect coins. My mother's cleaning, an African-American, had a small hoard of coins from the mid 1800s that included a few large cents, half dimes and Indian Cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>The crown jewels of her holdings was four gold dollars. I could not believe how small they were when I saw them for the first time. The one that stuck in my mind was an 1853 with the "D" mint mark on the reverse. The cleaning lady would not sell her gold coins to me. So I only got to look at it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some time later, I learned that one of the men in town, who was a coin collector who had a lot of gold, according to my father, offered her $50 for one of her gold coins. I'd be willing to bet that was the one. Now $50 might sound like a low offer, but it wasn't in 1959. That was pretty close to the <u>Red Book</u> quote. It was equal to or more than a week's wages for a lot of people.</p><p><br /></p><p>At any rate, I never got a chance to buy the coin, and I never saw it again, but it stuck in my head from 60 years ago. I was happy to get this one in AU-58. As the market is currently moving, I paid way too much for it, but it's an outstanding piece. The surfaces are 'unmessed with."</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]958864[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]958865[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>There are a few more coins, but that's enough for today.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 3589114, member: 101855"]Okay, here are some more Dahlonega Mint coins. The 1850-D gold dollar is one of the tough coins in the set. It was very poorly struck, and almost all examples are unattractive. Have I seen Mint State examples of this coin offered? Yes, but I did not set out to buy a "break the bank" set. This one is an EF-45 [ATTACH=full]958858[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]958859[/ATTACH] The 1851-D gold dollar is one of the easier dates to find. It is the secomd most common date behind the 1849-D. This one has a few too many marks, but the surfaces are original. [ATTACH=full]958860[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]958861[/ATTACH] The 1852-D gold dollar falls in the middle ground for rarity. It is rarer than the 1849-D, 1851-D and 1854-D coins, but not up there with the 1850-D and 1854-D coins. [ATTACH=full]958862[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]958863[/ATTACH] The 1853-D gold dollar is one of the more common dates, but it holds a special place for me. The first gold dollars, and the first Dahlonega coin that I ever saw was an 1853-D gold dollar. I was in the fifth grade at the time, and had only started to collect coins. My mother's cleaning, an African-American, had a small hoard of coins from the mid 1800s that included a few large cents, half dimes and Indian Cents. The crown jewels of her holdings was four gold dollars. I could not believe how small they were when I saw them for the first time. The one that stuck in my mind was an 1853 with the "D" mint mark on the reverse. The cleaning lady would not sell her gold coins to me. So I only got to look at it. Some time later, I learned that one of the men in town, who was a coin collector who had a lot of gold, according to my father, offered her $50 for one of her gold coins. I'd be willing to bet that was the one. Now $50 might sound like a low offer, but it wasn't in 1959. That was pretty close to the [U]Red Book[/U] quote. It was equal to or more than a week's wages for a lot of people. At any rate, I never got a chance to buy the coin, and I never saw it again, but it stuck in my head from 60 years ago. I was happy to get this one in AU-58. As the market is currently moving, I paid way too much for it, but it's an outstanding piece. The surfaces are 'unmessed with." [ATTACH=full]958864[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]958865[/ATTACH] There are a few more coins, but that's enough for today.[/QUOTE]
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