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Message:: [QUOTE="900fine, post: 572801, member: 6036"]Friday Morning - the Bourse floor - Condition Census One Well, it was time to walk the floor and check out the goodies. The reason I first checked out the Early American Coppers club was because the copper at coin shows was awful. Virtually no good stuff; mostly overpriced pretenders. Not so at EAC. So anyway, Robin and I are cruising around, asking lots of questions. We walk up to the same gent with whom we had such a great time the night before (the $10 million man). He had a table... but he's not a dealer ! He set up a table just to show some coins and educate people. What a guy ! Typical of EAC types... very generous with their time, talent, knowledge, and experience. Anyway, there it was... a 1794 Large Cent* MS65 with original mint red. Raw. Condition Census One. If they're gonna keep having coins like this around, they're gonna have to give out complimentary oxygen masks, 'cuz I could hardly breathe. Dudes, there is no way to describe such a coin. This suckah is Condition Census One - finest known - by a mile. Or two. The second best is MS61, and those are the only ones of this die variety better than XF40. Think of it like this... remember how we drew coloring-book rainbows when we were kids ? Each color was solid, then a solid black line, then the next solid color. But real rainbows don't look like that. The colors form a continuum, and gently blend from one color to the next. That's the way coin colors should look. That's original surfaces. And that's how this one looks. If graded by a TPG, this one would be Red-Brown. The redness and browness gently drift in and out of each other over the face of the coin, with the most red in the most protected areas of the coin. Every strand of Liberty's hair mightily struck up and flawlessly preserved for 215 years. Awesome detail... if your loupe is strong enough, you can pick out individual strands of DNA !!! Ahhhhhhh yes.... I can see it in my mind's eye right now.... <-gasp-> can't breathe..... .... must................call ..............................911...     * I failed to take note of the Sheldon number. I am quite certain I am the only one in the room who would make such a faux pas.[/QUOTE]

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