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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 609238, member: 16948&quot;]While I don&#039;t have the elusive and costly 1873 S-1 Double Die Indian cent, I just acquired the 1873 S-2, which is almost as good, to go along with my 1873 Open 3 and 1873 Closed 3 Indian cents.&nbsp; I also have a little story that goes along with the S-2.&nbsp; If any of you have read &quot;my story&quot; on how I got started in coins, you&#039;ll recognize this part of that story.&nbsp; (By the way, I also posted this recently on the PCGS forum in response to AJ&#039;s &quot;You Suck&quot; string.)</p><p><br /></p><p>When I first started collecting/buying/selling Indian cents, I won an unc raw 1873 Cl. 3 Indian cent off Ebay for $110. It was a beautiful coin, probably MS64 RB. Right after the auction ended, I received an email from another Ebayer offering to buy it for an extra $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 wanted it so badly. So as soon as the coin arrived, I pulled out my Flynn variety book 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 second 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, I ended up taking this coin to the Long Beach show and selling it raw for $2,000. Though this happened a while ago, that is my best &quot;you suck&quot; story.</p><p><br /></p><p>p.s. Rick Snow currently had a very similar coin on his website, and I swear it is the exact same coin I sold all those years ago - so of course I had to buy it for my own set! The photo of the S-2 is this coin.&nbsp; (If you click on the photos, they will enlarge and you can see the doubling in Liberty on the S-2.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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