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Message:: [QUOTE="Burton Strauss III, post: 3016471, member: 59677"]The answer is....  $52.89  (i.e. $50 + 2.89 s/h). The winner is [USER=22377]@ddddd[/USER] with his guess of $50 [USER=73983]@jtlee321[/USER] in their defence, I think this predated CAC... but yes, have to love a gold bean no matter WHO applies it. ---------------------------------------------- Much more interesting is the information provided by [USER=19250]@Paddy54[/USER] who confirmed the variety attribution. In Flynn&Zack this is 1858 PR Repunched Date RPD-002, described as "Repunched Date 1858/158 Repunched 1 south seen below the serif. Repunched first [SIC] 8 south seen below the top. Repunched 5 south seen below the top." [ATTACH=full]749028[/ATTACH] Now here is where it gets even more crazy - note the PR? That means it's usually seen in PROOF coins. Either the proof dies were used later on for business strikes (a frequent occurrence in 3CS) or this is actually an impaired proof. I don't know which I more want it to be, one of 1,603,700 business strikes from a proof die or one of ~80 surviving proofs out of the 210 (300?) proofs that circulated... I lean towards business because I can't see the mint NOT using two perfectly good die pairs for business strikes after they were done striking a few hundred proofs. The reference book doesn't list the # of dies used. But does for the slightly smaller mintages of 1856 and 1857 (25/25 and 18/11 [obv/rev] respectively).[/QUOTE]