Your rarest Us Coin

Nothing really "rare"... just tough to come by...

 

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One of 18 Walking Liberty halves graded Proof Cameo by PCGS (8) and NGC (10) from the 1936 - 1942 proof era.

 

Nothing super duper rare, but ok.

 

My favorite Everyman in my collection. Sort of rare.

 

The S-156 arrived today and much to my surprise, it's even better than I hoped. It's not a higher grade, but it has the gripped edge usually only found on some S-120 and S-121 edges.

This leads me to speculate that all of the late Reverse of 95(96) strikes in both 1797 (S-120, S-121) and 1798 (S-155, S-156 and S-178) may have been struck around the same time. perhaps using old dies to train a new coiner? It has previously only been reported with a Reeded edge or Plain edge.

 

One of the most impressive aspects of die marriage analysis is to use circumstantial evidence to piece together a story, in this case the timeline of dies used.

 

Fugio Cent, 8 Pointed Star, 15-Y, R-3, w/ clip and lamination

 

I don't send pictures but, the rarest and special coin to me is: 1899 P Morgan dollar. Although not that old, considering the Pittman Act, we REALLY don't know the exact population except for grading totals that many state are skewed due to resubmissions. I like ALL your coins too yet...this is mine. Thanks for listening.

 

It also indicates that die marriages really don't follow an elegant emission sequence that was sought by Sheldon, Breen and others. They were used in a much more haphazard way with only a general progression as those dies wore out or were discarded permanently. And their use did not always follow in the same sequence as their making.

Of course, that is a story as well.

 

http://www.ikegroup.info/?page_id=203

http://forum2.ikegroup.info/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2126&hilit=Prototype

https://forums.collectors.com/discu...s-that-your-ike-on-the-cover-of-coin-world/p1

https://forums.collectors.com/discu...red-reported-in-coneca-errorscope-magazine/p1

 

Thanks for the links. Great reading.

 

This 1805 Draped Bust Quarter is my newest pickup. The type as a whole is very scarce with the Red Book of US Type Coins estimating total survival under 10K. Obviously the number of problem free examples like mine would be much lower. And to top it off, one of our CT members, NSP, was nice enough to attribute it for me as a Browning 4 in the New Acquisitions thread. That makes my coin an R4.

 

1889-cc morgan dollar XF-45

 

This coin at this grade, doesn't have the big dollar sign amount. Although, one would be really hard pressed to CURRENTLY find a raw example that would grade 65. It has a ranking between 3.5- 4 on the rarity scale, to boot. IMO this coin should be worth more?

 

This one might be my rarest US, not sure.

1835 1C Head of 1836 Type 5K N-19 R6




Cherrypicked it for $30 2 years ago.

 

Posting on a kind of old thread, but here it is. 1863 Mather and Shefferly crockery store storecard. MI-225-AX-1a, Fuld R-8, 5-10 known. This is the same example used on tokencatalog and I only know of one other example, an MS that sold at auction some time ago. I don't even know what it looks like.

 

Like this? Hope your is a better grade than mine.

 

Surprising in a way, but the Philly 1840 quarter-eagle is supposedly scarce in any grade - PCGS estimates 80 pieces surviving (R 8.2 "extremely rare") according to the PCGS general rarety scale. 1st year of issue.

 

My rarest for a day. 16000 minted.

 

...how you gonna call dudes coins roadkill and then post this coin as your follow up???