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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paul M., post: 4305987, member: 73165&quot;]Great coin, great story, great everything!&nbsp; This is exactly the kind of coin I would absolutely love to own, and that you&#039;d have to pry from my cold, dead hands before I&#039;d sell.&nbsp; I would try to call dibs on it if <i>you</i> ever tried to sell, but that&#039;s not allowed here outside the B/S/T forum. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>My guess as to why the older catalog listing called the coin &quot;Brilliant Uncirculated&quot; with a &quot;touch of rubbing on the high points&quot; is that in the 1977 ANA grading standards link, it mentions there was no AU58 grade at first.&nbsp; Maybe this is the cataloger&#039;s way of acknowledging that &quot;yeah, this coin is actually circulated, but not enough to matter, because it&#039;s so pretty?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>How lustrous is this coin, actually?&nbsp; If it has &quot;some&quot; luster, as the later catalog describes, that would argue against the theory that the coin is undergraded at 55.&nbsp; With the way the strike is all over the place on Bust Halves, I can&#039;t actually tell for sure from your photos, but I do see enough spots that look darkened from wear that my impression is that it could be accurately graded, slightly overgraded from a technical perspective, or, perhaps, &quot;market graded&quot; because it&#039;s so pretty.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s always fun to be able to trace back the provenance of a coin you own.&nbsp; I have a couple saved searches on eBay to help me find coins from certain famous or important collections, but I only have significant provenance beyond on a very few coins in my collection.&nbsp; The only ones I can think of off the top of my head are both Civil War Tokens: one I bought directly from Susan Trask, and the other I bought directly from Steve Hayden.&nbsp; I have a handful beyond those two that have some kind of sale ticket or auction reference, but nothing of notable importance.&nbsp; I was able to find a Julius Caesar denarius I bought on eBay listed in an old CNG catalog, with the price realized, as well.&nbsp; I thought that was a cool find.</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, one random additional thought: it would be really cool if you could find nice, rainbow toned examples of the other Capped Bust denominations (half dime, dime, quarter) and show them off together.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for sharing.&nbsp; This is exactly the type of post that keeps me coming back to read these forums.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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