It's Wild Card Weekends? It's the "Lollapalooza" of COINS! A two-day thing on Saturdays and Sundays. All you have to do, if you would like, is post something you have never posted on here or just a show and tell what you have for us.... So? What are you waiting for? This I just posted lately but it's one of the coins that got me started in this whole hobby. It was brought back from overseas during WW2 and given to me. Also, as a kid, I used to work around my disabled Uncle's house mowing, Gardening and anything else needed to be done. He used to "seed" the garden with pennies and I would occasionally dig them up. He did this w/o telling me and smile as I proclaimed "treasure!". LOL. Had fun those days working for him and getting paid in "collectible quality" coins. I can just imagine the ones that I didn't get in the dirt. My wife and I drove by the old place a while ago. It's still there, although updated but the memories came back again......
Something I've never posted. Hmm. How about this, which is one of my latest purchases- bought even after my return from the FUN show. I can't afford an octagonal Panama-Pacific gold $50 piece, but now at least I have the little gold dollar. Prior to this, the only Pan-Pac coin I owned before was the half dollar, in raw AU.
Well. It's still a very Handsome coin! Maybe next year get the $50 coin? Just add a couple zero's on the end on the check....
Any gold double eagle counts as "special" for most of us, I reckon. My one-and-only $20 Lib is also a PCGS MS62 from the 1890s.
Another one of my bucket listers. I'll get one when I earn my first million! I'm almost there. Just need 999,999 dollars.
Hidden Treasure Thirty one years ago, I went to an IRS auction. They had several storage units filled with all kinds of art work, a lot of high dollar items. It rained all day. About 50 bidders showed up and we set in the rain for several hours. There was only one lot I was interested in. It was a zip lock bag with several well worn Walkers. I could see there was something else in the bag. Very few were bidding on the bag and I was able to buy it for about 3X face value. I won the bag for $15. I was wet from head to toe. It had been a long day so I paid and left. The funny thing was, the IRS did not charge any sales tax at the auction. Fast forward to the FUN show last year. I gave the coin to Skip at ICG for conservation. It had a bit of haze I thought was PVC. It turned out really nice. I'll guess the value to be about $500. @messydesk took this image for me at this years FUN.
I've never posted these before, as a mater of I took the images this morning to put on @SensibleSal66 thread from yesterday
Something I was considering on eBay. but it closed at 2x melt and I just didn't know if it could be restored ( bail removed) with the reeded edge. Ultimately I didn't want to take the chance on over priced scrap if it didn't work out. Would have made for a cool pendant but that wasn't what I was after.
Something I have never posted before...hmmmm....I'm terrible at keeping track of that. I'll cheat and just post what I purchased yesterday. Sellers photo and description GERMANY & MONTENEGRO. Nikola's Daughters of Fate cast iron Medal. Dated 1916 (82mm, 93.07 g, 12h). By Karl Goetz in München. NIKITAS SCHICK SALS TOECHTER, the daughters of Nikola I of Montenegro as The Fates, with each daughter's name inscribed below them on the pediment upon which they stand: Militza (wife of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaivich of Russia), holding torch, Stana (Anastasia, wife of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaivich of Russia), holding key surmounted by skull, and Elena (wife of Victor Emmanuel III of Italy), holding serpent // DER SCHWARZEN BERGE (the Black Mountains [= Montenegro]), three hissing serpents entwined about bloody sword pointed left; NIEDER – LAGE (defeat) across field above blade. Edge: Plain. Kienast 189. Deep charcoal gray surfaces, with a pleasing matte nature; some breaks to the blackening are noted, as well as a few deposits on the obverse. Here, Goetz alludes to the downfall of Montenegro as being the result of the king's daughters marrying into enemy families—namely, into Italy (who had an alliance with Austria-Hungary and Germany, but instead later chose neutrality) and into Russia (who was on the side of the Entente Powers). They are presented in the form of the Three Moirai, or Fates, on the obverse, turning instead into hissing serpents atop a blood-soaked sword on the reverse.
I don't think I posted this one here, yet. The one I let get away.... I bought this 1883-CC GSA Morgan on ebay back in 2003 for $157.50. When I got it in hand, I realized I had a very nice coin, and thought I could get it certified at NGC (they didn't re-holder it - just put their sticker on the original GSA holder), and make a decent profit off of it. I had a friend and Morgan "expert" look at it, and he agreed it could get an MS-65 designation. At that time, I was discussing coins on a coin forum called rec.collecting.coins. I posted pics of the coin, and asked for opinions. We had a pretty spirited debate on the coin's merits (or lack thereof), and eventually I decided to send the coin to NGC to "prove those experts wrong". Well, it came back MS-65, and I was happy! The thing I did, and now regret doing, is that I put it on ebay and sold it. I got $299.00 for it, which was a nice profit. But, now I wish I had that coin (and it's sister, which I also sent in at the same time and it got MS-63) still in my possession! Now, I have no GSA Morgans. Just looked it up on NGC.com, and it looks like that MS-65 is now worth $550.00......hurts even more!
2x spot for that, loop attachment notwithstanding (and I’d have left the loop on it) would have probably been a good deal. (If it’s real- which, on eBay nowadays, who knows?) Check out the price these folks are asking for an NGC MS64! Those are definitely cool.
This is one I have never posted. Julius Caesar. AE Orichalcum Dupondius Minted in Rome, late 46-early 45 BC, C. Clovius, prefect. Obverse : CAESAR DIC TER Winged and draped bust of Victory right. Reverse: Minerva walking left, carrying trophy, shield and spears, snake at her feet; CLOVI on left, PRAEF on right. Cr.476/1a, Syd.1025, RPC 601 28.70 mm 13.73 g
The seller said it came from an ARAMCO employee who had it on a bracelet. Also guaranteed the authenticity. My jeweler friend wasn't in good health and I didn't check with another jeweler to see if they could remove the bail leaving the coin to send in for authentication. If I had more walking around money I probably would have.