Lets see your Cherry Picked coin

Haven't received this one yet....mpd-001. The 6 is protruding out under the base of the rock. Directly over the 6 in the date .

 

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I picked this one today. It's a 1921-S Morgan Dollar VAM-1H. It has incredible die polish/file lines all over the obverse and reverse as well as die gouges, die chips, die cracks and die erosion. It also has what looks like struck through splattered grease in the fields on the obverse around Liberty's cap. It was love at first sight.

 

1919 DDO Buffalo Nickel FS-101
Found in a $10.00 lot of 6

 

1864 With L Poliquin Variety 9 Snow-8

 

I love them dark like this one...Nice pick up Hoky77 sweet coin.

 

Here's a handful that all arrived on Thursday. The 1878-S Long Nock was an eBay cherrypick, but the other 4 were all bought on Thursday from different shops.

Up first the 1878-S Morgan Dollar VAM-27 Long Nock. I knew before buying it, that it was probably cleaned. Upon it's arrival, I was a bit disappointed that it was more than just cleaned but looks whizzed. Still it's a tougher VAM and it's in XF-AU Details. Had it been untouched, I would have done a happy dance around the house for a week straight. LOL But, it's still my first long nock cherrypick after looking for a LONG time.



This next coin was picked at a shop that specializes in bullion with a little bit of numismatic stuff. It's an Early Die State 1882-O/S VAM-3. I'd call it a high XF to low AU. The diagnostic for EDS is the MM in the was the S is not flush to the surface of the O.



This next coin was bought along with the 1882-O/S above. I love "sunken die/buffed die" varieties and this was a no brainer in my book. The obverse is just destroyed, it has a nice orange peel texture with deep haloing around the devices and Liberty's hair.




These next two came from a dealers junk Peace Dollar box. I was blown away to come out with two nice picks. This first one is a toughie and it's a later die state. The 1922 VAM-1F with the die break in the field on the reverse under the eagle's breast. It looks to be a low end UNC maybe MS-61.



This last one really caught my eye. I love large die cracks and breaks and this one leaves nothing to be wanted. It has two displaced die breaks on the obverse, one above IN of IGWT and the other above TRVST on the obverse. The third displaced die break is on the reverse at the E of UNITED. This set of dies must have been retired not too long after this coin was struck. Just look at the peripheral die break around the reverse going from the rock that the eagle is perched on all the way around to ER of AMERICA. The depth of the displacement at the E of UNITED is the same as the depth of the letters of the devices. I'm wondering if this is not possibly a new die state worthy of a new VAM listing, possibly VAM-10b?

 

PCGS PR64 BN

Mark Goodman image.

 

If this is cherry picked, ya gotta tell us "the rest of the story" ! ;-)

 

Not PCGS. ICG.

 

Bought in an ICG holder then to PCGS were it stayed the same grade but went from RB to BN.

 

1910 S/S FS-502
$14 + shipping, sellers pics.

 

Found this Two-Feather Buffalo nickel on eBay from a large dealer. They were asking $35 or best offer. Didn't even hesitate on the BIN price. Sorry for the 2x2 pic. I grade it AU-50.

 

I was looking for the 1966 SMS Kennedy half dollar no FG and found this. This is a little bit harder to spot than the two-feather nickel. My bad pics are much better than the sellers pics I bought it from. Do yo see initials? They are comprised of 4 bumps. I think there is more than enough initials there not to get the designation. I may not pursue this one any longer on-line. It is too hard to see in pics.

 

Listed as a 1864 bronze. The sellers pic showed only showed a bit of the lathe line behind Miss Liberties eye.
Poliquin 14, Snow-11, FS-1401

 

This doesn't technically qualify as a cherry pick since I didn't purchase it, but I did discover this third known 1793 NC-6 while looking at Heritage Archives late last year. I brought it to the attention of Heritage who passed along the information to the purchaser and confirmed my attrribution. It has a provenance older than the discovery of the variety.



Mark Borckardt wrote up an article in the April 2019 issue of Penny-Wise about it's discovery and provenance. It had been mistakenly attributed as S-16 by prior owners.

The NC-6 shares the reverse with S-16, but has a different obverse.

It is part of a collection which will be auctioned in Long Beach in September.

If interested, you can actually see my posts in the "Attribute This" thread beginning in late December as I mused over the discovery and found additional diagnostics confirming the variety.

 

I think I remember it if it's the one with the shield found on 1860 reverses and thereafter, but not on production 1859s.

 

I believe the 1859 CuNi was struck in four different patterns. The one I know off the top of my head had the shield with the oak leaf wreath rev. that was used from 1860 on. The pattern coin you mentioned must could been an estate sale coin. Apparently it was raw because if it were slabbed it would have been noted. If it had the reverse used from 60 on I can see how it could be missed.

 

That's a $450- 550 coin ....nice return on your investment. Two thumbs up!