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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ElmerFusterpuck, post: 993362, member: 19086&quot;]OK, the quick and condensed story, the first part is a little fuzzy though.&nbsp; Back at the last Long Beach show of &#039;07, my wife spotted what I think was this coin in a case, seem to remember it was in an ANACS holder graded AU-58.&nbsp; By the time I came by to look at it again, it was gone.&nbsp; Since that time, it has come up in several auctions, where I was the underbidder in 2 of them.&nbsp; There were other auctions where this coin was bid up much higher (north of $4K), glad I missed on those.&nbsp; After missing again for the 3rd time, a good PCGS forum member offered to sell it to me for what he paid another board member.&nbsp; It&#039;s been running slightly north of $2K in the last couple sales, which I figured was OK.&nbsp; He basically said he was overspent on coins for the year and saw how hard I&#039;ve been trying for the half all this time.&nbsp; I never complained about that - figured other folks wanted it more, and it was a fair &#039;fight&#039;.&nbsp; After working out this deal over part of this summer, the 1818 half arrived the past week.&nbsp; It&#039;s been worth the wait!&nbsp; From what I&#039;ve heard and read, this coin has made the rounds; I think even the PCGS president owned it at one time.&nbsp; No flipping or a quick sale of this coin from me, I intend to enjoy the ownership of this prize piece.&nbsp; It is one of the best looking Capped Bust examples I&#039;ve seen, but my gold standard was this unbelievable MS-64 1808 example I saw a few years back.&nbsp; Way out of my price range, but it had unbelievable luster and color too, hopefully my drool marks didn&#039;t stain that coin![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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