Were they selling it or just showing off? The cert checks out... https://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/115915-001/66/
Yeah, I'd be bragging about it, too... as long as I had a good security system ;-) >NGC Price Guide Value: $220,000.00 >Total Graded by NGC in MS 66: 1 >In Higher Grades*: 2
It would be nice to know the story behind that coin on how it survived in that condition after 200+ years.
Yeah, its real. It sold on Heritage in 2011 for $115k: https://coins.ha.com/itm/early-quar...0-3563.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515 The coin has clearly been dipped, and probably more than once. No coin that old should be that color. As for how it survived in that condition, it was probably part of someone's collection from a very early age. It was probably in Europe for much of it's life, as the collectors there were more involved than early US collectors.
See those lines at 12:00 on the obverse? Those are likely adjustment marks. The planchet was overweight before striking, so workers at the Mint scratched off silver to make it worth 25 cents, or two bits back in those days. It's miraculously preserved, but I do think it was struck in 1807, or soon after. But yes, silver just doesn't naturally go 210 years with zero tarnish whatsoever.
I disagree. That is an expensive coin, but it is not beautiful. This is an 1807 that is also graded 66, but this is a beautiful coin: https://coins.ha.com/itm/early-quar...Auction-Archive-PreviousPricesHeritage-081514
No offense, but I do not think that one looks beautiful at all. Beauty differs from person to person. The obverse toning is just..ugly looking. I do line the bullseye on the reverse though.
