Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;drbrummer, post: 3222739, member: 76441&quot;]Cherrypicking is one of my favorite aspects of collecting. Here are a couple of my better &#039;picks&#039;.[ATTACH=full]839351[/ATTACH] </p><p>This coin has a rather cool story. It was originally part of a Scotsman auction in a lot of about 50 different seated dimes. Unfortunately, they do not image entire lots when sold in this fashion so only a few of the coins in the lot had pictures, but the description included an AU 1887-s with &#039;significant&#039; reverse die cracks. I bid what I thought was fairly aggressive for the lot considering many of the coins appeared to have one problem or another and didn&#039;t come even close to the final hammer price. Fast forward about a month later and all of a sudden I was searching ebay and started to recognize some coins listed....whoever had purchased the lot chose to break them up and list individually on ebay....I couldn&#039;t believe my eyes and clicked buy-it-now as fast as I could. the coin now resides in a PCGS AU58 holder and I consigned it to a specialist who solid it for about 10x my original investment.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]839354[/ATTACH] </p><p>This coin doesn&#039;t have as cool of a story but is one of the rarest seated dimes I have cherried. It has a rather obvious die gouge on the obverse above the shield and is an R7 variety. I paid what would otherwise have been a ridiculous price for a VF 1890-s (from a dealer who overprices everything and will typically accept offers for 60-70% of his asking price) but didn&#039;t want to risk losing out so I didn&#039;t care. I included this dime in the same consignment as the previous coin and it sold for 8x what I was into it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in