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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 4898638, member: 10461&quot;]What a lovely bronze.&nbsp; Again, I&#039;m clueless on rare varieties, but I just like the look of that one in general.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Forgive me, but I must again stray outside the realm of Ancients for that.</p><p><br /></p><p>This was the first known (discovery coin) of this particular variety of 1806 half dollar, which was later designated as the Overton-129 variety.&nbsp; After the discovery was published, five-figure estimates were bandied about regarding this coin&#039;s potential value.</p><p><br /></p><p>I purchased it with the trade of some Irish coins worth about $45, in the early 2000s, and sold it for $75.&nbsp; The person I sold it to later put it on eBay, where two Overton variety specialists did battle over it and it sold for over $2,000 in its first post-discovery sale.&nbsp; I believe one or two other 1806 O-129 examples have since been found.&nbsp; It is still extremely rare.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does it bother me that I sold a potential five-figure coin for 75 bucks?&nbsp; Not all that much, because I never would have recognized it for what it was.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am a general practitioner and non-specialist, so I never would have had the first clue about a rare or unknown Overton variety.&nbsp; The folks who cherrypicked this coin right off my <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-holey-coin-vest-and-holey-gold-hat.286762/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-holey-coin-vest-and-holey-gold-hat.286762/">Holey Coin Vest</a> later signed and presented me with a copy of the (not insubstantial) Overton book, which was done as a kind gesture, rather than as a way to gloat or rub salt in my wounds.&nbsp; But the book proved too much like an algebra textbook to me, with all its abbreviations and cryptic notations.&nbsp; <font size="3">(I flunked algebra in high school.)</font></p><p><br /></p><p>I reckon I will never be a specialist collector, but I do respect those who are.</p><p><br /></p><p>(And there have been several other times when I was on the <i>winning</i> side of a cherrypick.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1182050[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/h0/f1uq3y6trhfk.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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