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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2572784, member: 10461&quot;]<font face="Georgia"><b>United States: gold 5-dollar half-eagle, Liberty Head type, 1842-D (small date)</b></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/USA-5-1842D-230000-coin-800x500.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/USA-5-1842D-230000-slab-v2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>Obverse:</b> Liberty head in coronet facing left.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>Reverse:</b> Heraldic eagle, olive branch in right talon, three arrows in left, Dahlonega &quot;D&quot; mintmark below.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">PCGS VF30 with CAC green sticker, cert. #11588556. Ex-Michael Kittle Rare Coins, 3/15/2014. (Sticker on back of slab indicates prior provenance to Douglas Winter Numismatics.)</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">This was a really big-ticket purchase on my modest income. It cost more than twice the cost of my previous largest coin purchase in 38 years of collecting. In fact, it cost as much or more than many of the clunker <i>cars</i> I&#039;ve driven over the years! I live in Georgia, and this will be my first coin from the Dahlonega Mint. I previously had owned one Charlotte mint gold dollar (with a hole obscuring half the mintmark), but that&#039;s it for the scarce C- and D-mint Southern gold.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">This coin technically belongs to my daughter, Victoria. Since she decided she&#039;s not into coin collecting, I sold her 1901 Victoria British Empire type set and put most of the proceeds into this coin, which I may sell ten or twelve years down the road, when she needs college textbooks or a wedding dress, or something like that. Until then, she&#039;s given me permission to reinvest and &quot;play with&quot; her collection proceeds. </font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">Obviously a midgrade circulated example of this coin is all we could afford. Mr. Kittle also had a Charlotte mint coin of similar grade on his website at the time I bought this, but this was the coin that spoke to me. I liked the orangey toning on it, and think it is a nice circulated example. Obviously CAC (Certified Acceptance Corporation) approved of it, too. This is my first CAC verified coin with the little &quot;green bean&quot; sticker on the label, which, though nice, doesn&#039;t really mean much to me personally.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>Miscellaneous links:</b></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><a href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/USA-5-1842D-230000-coin-lg.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/USA-5-1842D-230000-coin-lg.jpg" rel="nofollow">Larger image</a></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><a href="http://www.pcgs.com/Cert/11588556/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/Cert/11588556/" rel="nofollow">PCGS cert verification page</a></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><a href="http://www.pcgs.com/prices/priceguidedetail.aspx?ms=1&amp;pr=1&amp;sp=1&amp;c=61&amp;title=liberty+head+%245" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/prices/priceguidedetail.aspx?ms=1&amp;pr=1&amp;sp=1&amp;c=61&amp;title=liberty+head+%245" rel="nofollow">PCGS priceguide trends</a></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><a href="http://www.pcgs.com/Photograde/#/5Lib/Grades" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/Photograde/#/5Lib/Grades" rel="nofollow">PCGS/Photograde standards</a></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><a href="http://numismedia.com/fmv/prices/5gld/pricesgd.shtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismedia.com/fmv/prices/5gld/pricesgd.shtml" rel="nofollow">Numismedia priceguide trends</a></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><a href="http://www.caccoin.com/look-up-your-coins/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.caccoin.com/look-up-your-coins/" rel="nofollow">CAC verification page</a> (copy &amp; paste cert. # 11588556 into the search box to look up this coin)</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>Wikipedia links:</b></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahlonega_Mint" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahlonega_Mint" rel="nofollow">Dahlonega Mint</a></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_Eagle" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_Eagle" rel="nofollow">Half Eagle</a></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">When posted here, this coin was part of my <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/lord-marcovans-eclectic-box-of-20-collection.283541/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/lord-marcovans-eclectic-box-of-20-collection.283541/">&quot;Eclectic Box of 20&quot; collection</a>.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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