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<p>[QUOTE="TypeCoin971793, post: 3055011, member: 78244"]Nice find! It is always neat to find out that something is rarer than originally thought.</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought this spade from Bob Reis about a year ago. He read the inscription wrong, and thus misattributed it. I did not notice the error until after I had bought it, making it worth about 10 times what I had paid (and it was not a cheap coin to begin with). There are around half a dozen examples in acsearch.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]765264[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is the one that originally got me poating on the forums. I bought it in a lot of 3 large cents for $15. Just for the heck of it, I decided to attribute them (spurred by thinking the 1800 was an overdate. When I attributed the 1797, I got S-121. Then I looked at the edge, and saw it was plain, making it S-121a. Some research showed this variety was extremely rare, so I posted it on CCF to get confirmation. Since the feedback I got was promising, I took it to a show and let the copper expert Chris McCawley look at it. He too thought is was the S-121a, so he sent it off to Mr. Grellman for authentication. Grellman concurred that it was the S-121a, and offered to put it in his next auction. I accepted, and I wound up getting $760 out of it. Since then, I have transitioned to being a casual collector to a serious one, as well as starting to buy/sell coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]765265[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]765266[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]765266[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TypeCoin971793, post: 3055011, member: 78244"]Nice find! It is always neat to find out that something is rarer than originally thought. I bought this spade from Bob Reis about a year ago. He read the inscription wrong, and thus misattributed it. I did not notice the error until after I had bought it, making it worth about 10 times what I had paid (and it was not a cheap coin to begin with). There are around half a dozen examples in acsearch. [ATTACH=full]765264[/ATTACH] This coin is the one that originally got me poating on the forums. I bought it in a lot of 3 large cents for $15. Just for the heck of it, I decided to attribute them (spurred by thinking the 1800 was an overdate. When I attributed the 1797, I got S-121. Then I looked at the edge, and saw it was plain, making it S-121a. Some research showed this variety was extremely rare, so I posted it on CCF to get confirmation. Since the feedback I got was promising, I took it to a show and let the copper expert Chris McCawley look at it. He too thought is was the S-121a, so he sent it off to Mr. Grellman for authentication. Grellman concurred that it was the S-121a, and offered to put it in his next auction. I accepted, and I wound up getting $760 out of it. Since then, I have transitioned to being a casual collector to a serious one, as well as starting to buy/sell coins. [ATTACH=full]765265[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]765266[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]765266[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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