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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 8231624, member: 73489&quot;]<b><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff">1926-D vs. 1927-D: </span></font></b> Re-read the Commentary sections in the book regarding how these 2 coins &quot;flipped&quot; in the rarity rankings in the late-1950&#039;s.&nbsp; It&#039;s an interesting story, and RWB does a great job of primary research to give readers the nitty-gritty.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>The 1946 FCC Boyd Catalog by Kosoff &amp; Kreisberg noted that at the time the 1926-D was #2 in the Saint series</b> based on <i>&quot;....contacts with some of our finest cabinets.&quot; </i> Not a bad source of information at the time, but largely anectdotal and based on memories, albeit from experts presumably with no incentive to lie or give inaccurate information.&nbsp; But no TPGs...no tabulated data on the internet....etc.&nbsp; Just <i>&quot;informed opinion.&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #0000ff">A 1949 sale of a 1926-D hit $2,500 </span></b>-- if there are higher-priced sales of Saints up to that time, even the high-end expected for a 1933 Saint that never got off the ground -- I can&#039;t find it.&nbsp; I&#039;ll keep looking in the book as it is voluminous.</p><p><br /></p><p>But a few years later, once a few tiny hoards came back to the States from Europe, <b><span style="color: #0000ff">the price had fallen to about $500 for a top-quality 1926-D (The &quot;Lima&quot; Coin, MS-66+ CAC today).</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p><u>Meanwhile, no more 1927-D&#039;s came back from Europe...other rarities kept seeing a few more here-and-there hoards from Europe or S/Central America....and then by the end of the decade more-or-less the 1927-D had moved to the top of the rarity rankings and the 1926-D and 1926-S (among others) had fallen a few rungs each.</u>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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