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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WingedLiberty, post: 1946389, member: 26030&quot;]I bought this from Illini (a member of this board) for $495.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://mindstar.com/cointalk_photos/TVBlack_1826CBH_sm.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This was his sales blurb ...</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff8000"><b>1826 Bust Half Dollar PCGS AU50&nbsp; ex. Guttag Family (O-108a).&nbsp;&nbsp; </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff8000">This is a spectacular looking AU Bust Half Dollar. The coin is very original looking and is deeply toned. The toning is very very colorful with rainbow colors around the rims fading into a very deep blue toning that covers the centers of the coin. The coin also shows a few very neat looking die cracks which helped me attribute the variety. This coin is much much prettier in hand than my photos even begin to show.&nbsp; I’ve also included a shot of the coin titled under a bright light so you can better see the luster/colors of the coin that I just couldn’t capture with my normal setup. Wow.</span></p><p><br /></p><p>This was some additional info he sent me about this coin ...</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #a64dff">The Guttag Family pedigree was put on by PCGS since these coins came from the Guttag Brothers.&nbsp; They were major coin dealers (and involved in other businesses) in New York in the 1920s and 1930s.&nbsp; Apparently, they lost a ton of money in the big market crash of 1929 and only their coin business survived.&nbsp; There&#039;s a great write up on the history in the last two Stacks/Bowers catalogs.&nbsp; Apparently, the Guttag Family had a great deal of inventory from this coin business for many years and have just now decided to sell it off. So, in these auctions you see a lot of fresh to the market coins (mostly classic commemoratives and older half dollars) and the coins are unquestionably original and many have nice toning.&nbsp; Most of the coins that were slabbed also came with the original paper envelopes the Guttag Brothers and the Guttag Family stored the coins in for decades. The lot I won also had these envelopes, but Stacks/Bowers didn&#039;t deliver them to me.&nbsp; After several calls/emails, they told me they had lost the envelopes.&nbsp; I was pretty disappointed about that!&nbsp; Your coin came from a multi-coin &quot;lot&quot; sold as a group -- but anytime there is more than one coin in a lot, they don&#039;t do photos, which I know helped me win the coins cheap.&nbsp; Of course, the coin you got was by far the star of the lot and the main reason I went for it.&nbsp; I will send Stacks/Bowers another email today to see if those envelopes ever turned up as they would have been really cool to have along with the coins.</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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