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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2800140, member: 10461&quot;]The Bust half is in hand now.&nbsp; It is a handsome coin.&nbsp; I thought it might be more lustrous than the pictures and it is, though not <i>quite</i> so much as I expected.&nbsp; The luster, while present, is a bit subdued on the obverse, but there.&nbsp; The reverse has a nice subtle &quot;cartwheel&quot; effect.&nbsp; I can see how this was a hard coin to image properly, and it definitely looks less flat in hand.&nbsp; I like it.</p><p><br /></p><p>When viewed in diffuse sunlight outdoors on a cloudy day yesterday morning, the coin had an overall light goldish tone to it.&nbsp; Very light - I believe this could be referred to as &quot;champagne&quot;-colored toning.&nbsp; It&#039;s essentially a 90% white coin with those faint goldish overtones.&nbsp; I think you might know what I&#039;m talking about if you&#039;ve looked at enough high grade old silver coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve told my swap partner that I am satisfied with the deal, so I&#039;m just waiting to hear what he thinks of my 1723-SSC shilling.</p><p><br /></p><p>And then there is the matter of the unexpected gift coin he included.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>OK, so I figured he knew I was into love tokens and I might be getting a love token on a Seated dime or something, when he said &quot;a <i>nice</i> holed coin&quot;.&nbsp; Maybe even a holey Seated quarter or something.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is not a love token, but it is <i>indeed</i> a nice holed coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>All I can say now is ... <i>wow</i>.</p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>This</i> was my freebie:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]652576[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]652577[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">(*With these as holeys, and the hole in this position, you find yourself wondering if there was once a &quot;C&quot; or &quot;D&quot; mintmark under there.&nbsp; I had a really interesting 1851 with a &quot;<a href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/732501/1851-gold-dollar-c-mintmark-or-o-2010-update-w-different-pics" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/732501/1851-gold-dollar-c-mintmark-or-o-2010-update-w-different-pics" rel="nofollow">peekaboo&quot; mintmark</a>, one time.&nbsp; Consensus in the CU forum discussion favored it being a &quot;C&quot; rather than an &quot;O&quot;, which was really neat- and made it the only Charlotte coin I&#039;ve owned, to date.)</font></p><p><br /></p><p>That kind of evaporates any doubts on the fairness of the deal, wouldn&#039;t you say?&nbsp; [USER=78244]@TypeCoin971793[/USER]&nbsp; - what&#039;s your verdict now?&nbsp; I&#039;m content, which is all that counts, but I&#039;m interested to hear your renewed opinion in light of the bonus in the trade.</p><p><br /></p><p>What a nice guy.&nbsp; I&#039;d never done any deals with him before.</p><p><br /></p><p>Public shout-out to &quot;FallGuy&quot; on Collectors Universe - a very fair and fun person to swap with.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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