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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 916402, member: 16948&quot;]<span style="color: black"><font face="Arial">I just posted an article in another thread about &quot;My Favorite Things&quot; and this story is mentioned in that article.&nbsp; It happened when I was first getting into pennies.</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Arial">I bought an unc 1873 Closed 3 that I had won off Ebay for $110. It was a beautiful coin, probably MS64 RB, and at that time I didn’t know much about the double Liberty. Right after the auction ended, I received an email from another Ebayer offering to buy it for an additional $100. I told him I would have to wait until I had the coin in hand to see it for myself before I would sell it. That email made me suspicious, so I decided to take a good close look at the coin when I got it to see why this guy was eager to pay so much more for it. So as soon as the coin arrived, I pulled out my Flynn variety book (I didn’t have Rick’s books back then) and compared this coin to all the 1873 varieties, and, yes, I&#039;m sure you guessed it, it was the double die variety – unfortunately, not the Type 1, but almost as good - it was the Type 2 variety with most of the letters in Liberty strongly doubled. Of course I hooted and yelped and was so excited that my family wondered what was going on. I can sincerely say that that was the moment my husband and kids finally understood the true value of a penny! Any way, a short time later, I took this coin to the Long Beach show and ended up selling it raw for $2,000. </font></span><span style="color: black"><font face="Arial">Well, fast forward many years later.&nbsp; </font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Arial">I recently saw this 1873 S-2 on Rick&#039;s website, and I&#039;d swear it was the same coin I sold all those years ago.&nbsp; So, of course, I just had to have it - and now I do, and this is a photo of my old/new 1873 S-2!</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Arial"><img src="http://bluccphotos.com/clients/charmy/7-6/web/Images/19.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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