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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2824111, member: 10461&quot;]I like the coin, too, though I&#039;m not really into Morgan dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p>But the more I hear of crazy premiums like that, the more I think [USER=85297]@RickO[/USER] is onto something when he refers to it as &quot;tarnish&quot;.&nbsp; That&#039;s really all it is - pretty tarnish.&nbsp; It&#039;s insane to pay a 100x premium for a common coin just because you like the tarnish on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>But to each his own.&nbsp; We all have our own little <font size="3">(or large)</font> insanities, don&#039;t we?</p><p><br /></p><p>I like toned coins myself <font size="3">(bring on the beautiful tarnish! LOL)</font>, but I&#039;m not the kind of person who will pay several <i>multiples</i> of a coin&#039;s value for a toning premium.&nbsp; If the toning premium is more than 10-25% over the normal, sane retail price for a coin, I move on and shop for something else.&nbsp; In fact, I <i>will </i>go full retail, but something has to be <i>really</i> special for me to cough up anything extra beyond that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, like [USER=29751]@brg5658[/USER], I do much (in fact, <i>most</i>) of my shopping on <b>The Dark Side</b>, i.e., in World coins.&nbsp; There&#039;s just so much more &quot;bang for the buck&quot; there, in my opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>I almost certainly paid a toning premium for this one, but have no way of knowing, since it&#039;s pop.1 in all grades.&nbsp; I did lose my head over it a bit, but I was buying at fixed price, not auction.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/france-copper-specimen-striking-of-a-10-centime-pattern-essai-1848.284819/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/france-copper-specimen-striking-of-a-10-centime-pattern-essai-1848.284819/"><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">France: copper specimen striking of a 10-centime pattern (essai), 1848</font></font></a></b></p><p><b><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/france-copper-specimen-striking-of-a-10-centime-pattern-essai-1848.5058/full?d=1482847616" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4">(<a href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/33997478" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/33997478" rel="nofollow">PCGS SP65 RB</a>)</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>$326.65.&nbsp; I talked &#039;em down from $395.00.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you think I&#039;d have gotten a <i>United States</i> pattern from that era, in that grade and with that kind of toning, for such a price?&nbsp; You&#039;d have to add another decimal place to the price sticker!&nbsp; <font size="3">(To the <i>left</i> of the number.) </font> And yet this is likely every bit as rare as its US counterparts that are listed in the Judd book.</p><p><br /></p><p>Whoops - sorry - my Darkside bias is showing, isn&#039;t it?&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/1082393873677_Vadercoin.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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