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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fiddlehead, post: 6512016, member: 31286&quot;]1840-D quarter eagle!&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]1260251[/ATTACH] I obtained a pretty nice example of a coin that was the last gold coin missing in my 1840 mint set.&nbsp; All that&#039;s left now are a few dimes and half dimes.&nbsp; Maybe just a total of three.&nbsp; This piece, one of the rarest, if not the rarest in the entire Liberty quarter eagle series has maybe 100 survivors - I &quot;won&quot; the bidding for it in the Heritage Auction yesterday - XF45 Details (damage) but even with the damage it&#039;s pretty nice - everything is there.&nbsp; And since a lot of the surviving coins are very low grades this one is for me a reasonable example.&nbsp; A full grade XF45 might run 5 figures. I knew my only realistic hope (besides winning the mega lottery) was to get a decent details coin.&nbsp; Me, I like this one!&nbsp; I suspect it&#039;s an early die state because the typical die cracks are minimal - on what I assume are later die states the die cracks are quite prominent. It&#039;s in an ANACS holder.&nbsp; I will probably send it to NGC at some point so I can put it in my registry set!&nbsp;&nbsp; Fiddlehead in the NGC registry - 1840 mint set.&nbsp; Here&#039;s most of them. </p><p><br /></p><p>FWIW, the 1840 half dollar in my set is actually the 1840 (O).&nbsp;&nbsp; An interesting coin as it has an 1839 reverse -&nbsp; nd in 1839 the mint mark was on the obverse - so it has no mint mark but was definitely minted in New Orleans.&nbsp; There is substantial research into the tracking of the dies that made that coin. You can see the differences between the reverses of the half dollars below - as later in the year they stared using the 1840 reverse in New Orleans.&nbsp; Pretty cool. [ATTACH=full]1260259[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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