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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fiddlehead, post: 2076733, member: 31286&quot;]Interesting auction piece.&nbsp; It was actually sold twice already. The selling price came down $1000 from the first sale ($5900 ish) to the second one ($4800 ish).&nbsp; It will be interesting to see what he gets this time!&nbsp; Two non-payers?&nbsp; Wow!&nbsp; I have an 1870 CC seated dollar that has environmental damage (It has lots of dark tarnish), but ironically, I am assuming that it hasn&#039;t been cleaned and is pretty likely as found.&nbsp; I bought it in an ebay auction for about $1000.&nbsp; The seller was selling it raw, but thought to include the NGC cert number from when it was slabbed as Env Damage - and it is indeed the same coin.&nbsp; So it makes me think that since the seller of this coin admits it was cleaned but doesn&#039;t include any previous certification information that perhaps it hasn&#039;t been certified in any way that can be easily traced, so it is kind of hard to tell if it&#039;s genuine.&nbsp; In the case of my coin, the pattern of the tarnish and light marks leave no doubt that it&#039;s the same coin - the advantage of that is that you know a TPG has at least vouched for it&#039;s veracity.&nbsp; These CC seated dollars are so scarce that details grade coins are still worth pretty good money.&nbsp; &nbsp; I thought environmental damage was a pretty cool grade for a coin like that, i.e., not perfect but not tampered with either. You have to be interested in spending rare gold double eagle money or more to get one that doesn&#039;t have a details grade.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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