OLD Carson City Morgan bags from GSA release

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@Evan8 & @cpm9ball, fabulous collections!

A guy goes to his LCS & says "I want to get a nice silver dollar for my wife for our silver anniversary". He picks out a stunning MS63 which he feels is 2 grades under graded. Salesperson asks "do you want a bag with that?" He says "nah,...she's pretty good lookin'".

 

That is an impressive display. Way cool!

 

Now i like that thinking. Out of the box. (BAG)

 

You would of been the talk of the town. Damn that sucks. So i can see you didn't have your cargo pants on with a grand in each pocket. Now you know what to wear when you go to the shows. Did i send you a W Guam?

 

You were on my list. But i think i wrapped it up when sending others coins. Now I'm a mess.

 

Awesome display. I have intentions to do something similar with a couple bags I have, but I plan to couple the bag with a coin of the same type and year. Here's one I bought from the canada gold coin hoard release. I flipped the bad inside out to see if there were gold flecks from the coins rubbing and there were gold specks all throughout the fabric in the inside. That told me they were absolutely authentic:

 

12 hours to go, it may still get to that $1000 mark, at $900 right now.

 

Agreed, my las and some show dealers have shown me coins that were truly magnificent and I could have easily afforded but didn't pull the trigger on... they give me the old but you make good money enjoy it... but sometimes you can't justify the coin for that price regardless of how much you have.

 

Closed at $940

 

It is amazing that collectors will pay this much for an old U.S. bag, yet want no part of a 19th century U.S. mint medal that has a mintage of 200 or less with a lot of history surrounding it.

As for the mint dies, yes, I'd like to have some them. Aside from the 1968-S Proof set dies that were sold, the pickings a limited. Most of these die faces are totally obliterated with no details showing. I don’t have any use for those, but the dies with details on them are quite collectable. I could easily see where an uncanceled Morgan Dollar die could be worth $11,000. I paid close to half that for one of the three or four dies that survive that were used to strike a Civil War token.

Years ago a collector showed me an uncanceled obverse die that was used to strike an 1807 Bust Half Dollar. It was really neat. It had a crack that run all the way down from the die face and into the base. It showed how extensive a die crack could be.

 

Closed at $940

 

If an unscrupulous person were to get hold of an uncancelled die there would soon be an uncanny amount of double struck coins out there.

 

He sold an old canvas bag for $940.
I am past the point where anything can amaze or surprise me anymore.