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<p>[QUOTE="Kirkuleez, post: 1471563, member: 36864"]I have said it before, but I will brag again. I helped broker a deal for the famous Hawaii Five-O piece some years ago when I was working for a dealer in New Orleans. I had the pleasure of bringing it to the new owner, a private collector on the west coast. You should have seen how quickly a crowd developed after the person checking through the items in my pocket said out loud "Is this the famous 1913 nickle, how much is it worth?". In was my greatest ultra coin nerd moment when I passed the coin around on the airplane and told the story. I may have created a new collector or two on that flight.</p><p><br /></p><p>But you are correct, I don't think it should be number one either. I put the several others before it, the 1877 Half Union, 1884 and 1885 Trade dollars, coil hair Stella, and 1933 Double Eagle rank higher in my book. But the fact that the coin is so famous is likely the reason for its ranking.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Kirkuleez, post: 1471563, member: 36864"]I have said it before, but I will brag again. I helped broker a deal for the famous Hawaii Five-O piece some years ago when I was working for a dealer in New Orleans. I had the pleasure of bringing it to the new owner, a private collector on the west coast. You should have seen how quickly a crowd developed after the person checking through the items in my pocket said out loud "Is this the famous 1913 nickle, how much is it worth?". In was my greatest ultra coin nerd moment when I passed the coin around on the airplane and told the story. I may have created a new collector or two on that flight. But you are correct, I don't think it should be number one either. I put the several others before it, the 1877 Half Union, 1884 and 1885 Trade dollars, coil hair Stella, and 1933 Double Eagle rank higher in my book. But the fact that the coin is so famous is likely the reason for its ranking.[/QUOTE]
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