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Message:: [QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 8351596, member: 101855"]I have a complete date and mint set of the Type I gold dollars. The only "Red Book" variety I don't have is the 1849-C with the Open Wreath. There are only 5 or 6 of those known, so I won't be getting one. Here's the best one I have, an 1853-P in MS-64 that might make MS-65 given today's "grade-flation." The dealer from whom I purchased it years ago had it set aside for a crack-out. I overpaid for it. [ATTACH=full]1481791[/ATTACH] This 1853-D has some nostalgia for me. When I was in the 5th grade, my mother’s cleaning lady brought her family heirloom group of gold dollars for me to see. I had never seen a gold dollar in my life, and could get over how small they were. I remember one was an 1853-D. That was the first Dahlonega coin I had ever seen. I would have liked to have bought it, but she wasn’t selling any of the gold. I heard that one of the men in the small town which was near the farm where I grew up had offered her $50 for it. That was not a rip-off price in 1960. She said that when she was short on cash that she had taken one of her gold dollars to the bank to see what they would pay. They gave her $1. I'll bet that teller didn't let that one stay in the till! I never knew what happened to it. So I have this one. This one is graded AU-58. [ATTACH=full]1481792[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]