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<p>[QUOTE="purple88, post: 1752538, member: 56032"]I too have one of these coins and they've sold recently for as high as $50 on eBay. I have also run across some retailers asking upwards of $100. The bulk have sold for $15-$30 on eBay but price does seem to be increasing. My coin is pictured below and doesn;t have any additional numbering on it like the poster's above. I am trying to find out how many were created.</p><p> </p><p>The latest from wikipedia:</p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="sans-serif">"In 1853 </font></span><i><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000">Constellation</span></font></span></i><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="sans-serif"> was struck and broken up for scrap at the </font></span><font size="2"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #0b0080">Gosport Navy Yard</span></font></font><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="sans-serif"> in </font></span><font size="2"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #0b0080">Norfolk, Virginia</span></font></font><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="sans-serif">. At the same time, the keel was laid for what became known as the second </font></span><font size="2"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #0b0080">USS</span></font></font> <i><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #0b0080">Constellation</span></font></span></i><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="sans-serif">. In the later half of the 20th century, the 1854 version was thought to be the 1797 version as the city of </font></span><font size="2"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #0b0080">Baltimore</span></font></font><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="sans-serif"> promoted the ship as the original and some naval historians believed the Baltimore ship to be the rebuilt original. The paper "Fouled Anchors: The </font></span><i><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000">Constellation</span></font></span></i><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="sans-serif"> Question Answered", by Dana M. Wegner, </font></span><i><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000">et al.</span></font></span></i><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="sans-serif">, published by the Navy's David Taylor Research Center in 1991, concludes that they are different ships. The conclusive proof came during the renovation of the ship in Baltimore concluding in 1999 in which all evidence pointed to the construction of an entirely new sloop-of-war from the 1850s era and not the 1797 ship. While there is no indication in the US Naval Registry from the time period of a complete destruction or for an appropriation for an entirely new ship, the yard log and account books from Gosport record in detail the breakup of the old ship and the building of the new, all under the Navy's "General Increase" or lump-sum construction and repair budget.</font></span><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="sans-serif"> A supposed notation that the original ship was remodeled instead, using the original building materials to construct an entirely new sloop-of-war, was one of several "Constellation" documents determined by the FBI to be forgeries."</font></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="sans-serif">[ATTACH]275839[/ATTACH][ATTACH]275840[/ATTACH][ATTACH]275841[/ATTACH][ATTACH]275843[/ATTACH] </font></span></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="purple88, post: 1752538, member: 56032"]I too have one of these coins and they've sold recently for as high as $50 on eBay. I have also run across some retailers asking upwards of $100. The bulk have sold for $15-$30 on eBay but price does seem to be increasing. My coin is pictured below and doesn;t have any additional numbering on it like the poster's above. I am trying to find out how many were created. The latest from wikipedia: [COLOR=#000000][SIZE=13px][FONT=sans-serif]"In 1853 [/FONT][/SIZE][I][SIZE=13px][FONT=sans-serif][COLOR=#000000]Constellation[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/I][SIZE=13px][FONT=sans-serif] was struck and broken up for scrap at the [/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=2][FONT=sans-serif][COLOR=#0b0080]Gosport Navy Yard[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=13px][FONT=sans-serif] in [/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=2][FONT=sans-serif][COLOR=#0b0080]Norfolk, Virginia[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=13px][FONT=sans-serif]. At the same time, the keel was laid for what became known as the second [/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=2][FONT=sans-serif][COLOR=#0b0080]USS[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=2][FONT=sans-serif][COLOR=#0b0080] [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][I][SIZE=13px][FONT=sans-serif][COLOR=#0b0080]Constellation[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/I][SIZE=13px][FONT=sans-serif]. In the later half of the 20th century, the 1854 version was thought to be the 1797 version as the city of [/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=2][FONT=sans-serif][COLOR=#0b0080]Baltimore[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=13px][FONT=sans-serif] promoted the ship as the original and some naval historians believed the Baltimore ship to be the rebuilt original. The paper "Fouled Anchors: The [/FONT][/SIZE][I][SIZE=13px][FONT=sans-serif][COLOR=#000000]Constellation[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/I][SIZE=13px][FONT=sans-serif] Question Answered", by Dana M. Wegner, [/FONT][/SIZE][I][SIZE=13px][FONT=sans-serif][COLOR=#000000]et al.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/I][SIZE=13px][FONT=sans-serif], published by the Navy's David Taylor Research Center in 1991, concludes that they are different ships. The conclusive proof came during the renovation of the ship in Baltimore concluding in 1999 in which all evidence pointed to the construction of an entirely new sloop-of-war from the 1850s era and not the 1797 ship. While there is no indication in the US Naval Registry from the time period of a complete destruction or for an appropriation for an entirely new ship, the yard log and account books from Gosport record in detail the breakup of the old ship and the building of the new, all under the Navy's "General Increase" or lump-sum construction and repair budget.[/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=13px][FONT=sans-serif] A supposed notation that the original ship was remodeled instead, using the original building materials to construct an entirely new sloop-of-war, was one of several "Constellation" documents determined by the FBI to be forgeries."[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][SIZE=13px][FONT=sans-serif][ATTACH]275839[/ATTACH][ATTACH]275840[/ATTACH][ATTACH]275841[/ATTACH][ATTACH]275843[/ATTACH] [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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