Art Posted February 14, 2010 Report Share Posted February 14, 2010 Terrific coins. Really like that 1866 IHC. One of my favorites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobh Posted October 15, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2010 A few odds and ends here: HAWAII: 1883 dime (ex Künker auction 175, lot 3105). It has a few rim dings but is otherwise a very high-end XF: Texas 50c Commemoratives Both of these were in the recent C.B. Slade Estate auction by Stack's. They are both in PCGS holders graded MS-66. 1935-D: 1936-D: Booker T. Washington + George Washington Carver 50c Commemorative 1953-S (bought raw on eBay; very nice UNC coin for only $26!): Morgan Dollar, 1888-O (VAM-4, "Hot Lips" variety). This is in an ANACS holder graded VF-20, also acquired from the C.B. Slade Estate sale. Price not bad at less than $100 for this grade! The question is, though, is it really VF-20 or just an overgraded but high-end F? Recent Russian coins in my next post... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobh Posted October 15, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2010 Here are some recently acquired Russian coins. 1796-EM 5 Kopecks (Paul I overstrike on earlier cipher series of Catherine II): There is so much hidden detail in this coin, although it is not immediately obvious at first that it is actually overstruck and not just the result of clashed dies and double striking. Please go here to see about 20 different aspects of this fascinating coin! This one and the next were from the recent Auction 69, Leipziger Münzhandlung H. Höhn (lots 1057 + 1060). The 1900 coin is particularly pleasing: 1897-*, 50 Kopecks (Paris mint) 1900-FZ, 50 Kopecks (St. Petersburg mint) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobh Posted October 28, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 Won at yesterday and today's Hess-Divo auctions. The first is auction 317, lot 293; the second from auction 318, lot 1355. I'll replace these auction pictures with my own after I pick up the coins and have had a chance to take some pics. EDIT: Here are my own pictures now: BAR KOCHBA Revolt (132-135 A.D.), year 1. Small bronze, grapes on obverse and date palm on reverse (obv. inscription reads "Year 1 of the Redemption of Israel" / rev. inscription reads "Eleazar the Priest"). Mildenberg 148, Group 1a; Meshorer, AJC II, 266, 7a I've wanted one of these for a long time now, and finally found a very nice example (much better one than the one depicted in the plates of the Mildenberg book): RUSSIA: Gold 5 roubles 1909-ЭБ: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted October 28, 2010 Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 Beautiful additions to your collection. I especially like the Texas coins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted October 28, 2010 Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 Going back up a few posts, you've got some nice Hawaiian and a great Columbian half! I only ever seen them in XF/AU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobh Posted October 30, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2010 Going back up a few posts, you've got some nice Hawaiian and a great Columbian half! I only ever seen them in XF/AU Thanks! There are some stunning Columbian 50c in the Heritage archives, but this one was a lucky find on eBay from a German dealer. It would probably grade at least MS-65 (IMHO), but I only paid something like $25 or $30 for it. If it had been in a slab in a Stack's or Heritage auction ... well, I don't like to think about what it would have cost! As to Hawaiian coinage, it is very difficult to find any coins from the series in MS except for the quarter -- Walter Breen writes in his "Encyclopedia" that entire rolls of Hawaiian quarters were somehow saved from melting down and made their way into the hands of coin dealers, whereas the other silver denominations became quite rare after Hawaii became a territory of the USA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted October 31, 2010 Report Share Posted October 31, 2010 Interesting. My only Hawaiian quarter is in the form of a spoon's bowl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobh Posted November 6, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2010 I just put up my own pictures of these now: BAR KOCHBA Revolt (132-135 A.D.), year 1. Small bronze, grapes on obverse and date palm on reverse (obv. inscription reads "Year 1 of the Redemption of Israel" / rev. inscription reads "Eleazar the Priest"). Mildenberg 148, Group 1a; Meshorer, AJC II, 266, 7a RUSSIA: Gold 5 roubles 1909-ЭБ: Also, here is an encased Indian cent which I picked up for 8€ and small change on eBay last week: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobh Posted January 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 JUDAEA. Bar Kochba Revolt, 132-135 C.E. AR Zuz. Undated, attributed to year 3 (134/5 C.E.). Extremely Fine From the Jan. 10 Stack's International Sale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobh Posted January 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 Here are the links to the images: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobh Posted January 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 Looks like someone wasn't paying attention here: USA, Dime (10 Cent) 1876 CC, Carson City Reference (it's variety #72, BTW -- doubled die obverse, Fortin 107b, read all about it here: http://www.seateddimevarieties.com/pictorial/1876cc.htm. You can even see the obverse die crack through Liberty's forehead on these pictures): http://www.seateddimevarieties.com/major_100_pricing.htm Pics: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 I really love that series. I can't wait to graduate to that. I also really need a CC finally.... Thanks for sharing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobh Posted January 29, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 I really love that series. I can't wait to graduate to that. I also really need a CC finally.... Thanks for sharing! Thanks! I haven't gotten that deeply into the dimes yet, just a few goodies here and there. But maybe this will be my next target, who knows?? With this particular coin, I thought I might be able to pick it up on the cheap because neither the red book nor PCGS list any of the DDO varieties for this year and MM. I think it would grade VF or even XF -- the dies were so worn out by the time it was struck that little detail is shown even on high grade specimens. And the auction was by a German seller; I'm pretty sure there aren't very many die variety dime collectors over here. As the price list shown by Gerry Fortin shows, even in VF it is listed at over $100. So I think I got a good deal on it. As it turned out, one other bidder bid it up to the price it eventually reached (40€ or something like $59 including shipping to Switzerland); otherwise, it would have probably gone for about half that amount. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobh Posted January 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Here is one of the nicest Buffalo nickels I have seen in a long time outside of a PCGS or NGC slab: My wife and I have non-overlapping vacation schedules between Christmas and New Years, unfortunately -- so we decided to spend a week in the Italian area of Switzerland (called the Tessin, for those "in the know") during the first week of January which we both had off ... So we booked a nice hotel in Lugano for that time period. (Little did we know that it would actually be WARMER in Zurich, where we live, than in the southern part of Helvetia that whole week...) Unfortunately, I came down with the flu the day after we arrived (I really think it was the swine flu, but didn't feel like shelling out $85 to find out for sure...) So for most of the week, I just stayed in bed (yuck!) while my wife did all sorts of "wellness" things (massages, sauna, swimming, aroma therapy, etc.) Anyway, the first day we were in Lugano, we took a walk into town, and lo and behold -- there was a coin shop! There were all sorts of things in the window display, but this Buffalo nickel caught my eye. It is a very small store-front, but this coin -- priced at about $50 -- didn't let me go. The next day, I made an effort to go there, and I bought this coin ... I guess one might say, this was my "wellness" therapy! I might add that the dealer had graded this coin as "quasi FDC", or AU-something. In the USA, I don't think this coin would grade any less than MS-64, especially considering that early-date Buffs usually didn't strike up very well (except for the minute obverse rim ding at 2 pm ... what do YOU think?) (BTW, after buying a magnifying lens for the view finder in my Nikon D60, I'm FINALLY getting my pictures in focus! ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Thanks! I haven't gotten that deeply into the dimes yet, just a few goodies here and there. But maybe this will be my next target, who knows?? With this particular coin, I thought I might be able to pick it up on the cheap because neither the red book nor PCGS list any of the DDO varieties for this year and MM. I think it would grade VF or even XF -- the dies were so worn out by the time it was struck that little detail is shown even on high grade specimens. And the auction was by a German seller; I'm pretty sure there aren't very many die variety dime collectors over here. As the price list shown by Gerry Fortin shows, even in VF it is listed at over $100. So I think I got a good deal on it. As it turned out, one other bidder bid it up to the price it eventually reached (40€ or something like $59 including shipping to Switzerland); otherwise, it would have probably gone for about half that amount. I love a good die variety! Those dimes and the Barbers are a dream variety set for me. Sorry to hear about the illness. Why do you think it was H1N1? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobh Posted January 31, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 I love a good die variety! Those dimes and the Barbers are a dream variety set for me. Sorry to hear about the illness. Why do you think it was H1N1? Well, when I usually get something like this, it lasts for a week or less, and my temperature usually stays below 38C - 100F. This time, my fever had gone over 39.5 - 103F, and I was ill for much longer. What I didn't have, which is usually a symptom of swine flu, is the diarrhea associated with it. So maybe this was not swine flu after all, but a rare case of "buffalo flu" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikaros Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 That is a seriously gorgeous Buffalo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobh Posted January 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2012 OK, a few things have accumulated here over the past year. I was only able to take some pictures over the past weekend, and will have to split these up across three different posts. Here we go, chronologically: A. JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt (132-135 C.E.), silver zuz (undated, attributed to year 3 -- 134/5 C.E.): B. RUSSIA, "Baroque" silver 5 kopecks 1758-СПБ (Tsarina Elisabeth): C. RUSSIA, 5 kopecks 1760 no mintmark (Tsarina Elisabeth): D. RUSSIA, 5 kopecks 1796-AM (Tsarina Catherine II): Next post: USA, one large cent and two Indian cents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobh Posted January 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2012 E. USA, large cent 1837 (haven't had time to attribute the Newcomb variety yet): F. USA, Indian Head cent 1863: G. USA, Indian Head cent 1884: Next post: a few Morgan dollars and a 1936-D San Diego 50 cent commemorative, plus one interesting SL dime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobh Posted January 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2012 Will look into the VAM varieties of these next thing when I have time: H. USA, Morgan dollar 1879-S: I. USA, Morgan dollar 1885-O: J. USA, Morgan dollar 1897-S: K. USA, San Diego - California Pacific International Exposition 50 cent commemorative - 1936-D: This dime has the Fortin 151 reverse -- die breaks from the rim through "E" of "UNITED" and through the last "S" of "STATES": L. USA, dime 1853 (arrows at date): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art1.2 Posted January 24, 2012 Report Share Posted January 24, 2012 Absolutely beautiful coins Bob. The 84 IHC has terrific woodgraining. The 23 Buffalo is superb. I've considered one of those magnifiers for my D3100 but haven't found much in a positive vain about them. Is your's the Nikon device or an OEM? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted January 25, 2012 Report Share Posted January 25, 2012 Where's the buff?? Love that seated dime! Thanks for posting. That first ancient doesn't strike me as a bobh coin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted January 25, 2012 Report Share Posted January 25, 2012 Always a delight to see your new pieces! I must say this is the first time I've seen a Judaic silver piece. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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