bustchaser

A couple of years later, but more additions to the "BabyDoll Memorial Collection"

Thanks guys. I especially like the bisecting die cracks on the obverse even if it would probably be worth about 3 times as much without them.

My latest purchase. I know at least one CP that will like this.

 

1830 CAPPED BUST HALF DOLLAR (Lettered Edge) (O-111, R.2.) (Ex. Jules Reiver Collection) AU-58

You are right. There IS at least one. I always enjoy seeing Jules' old coins in the hands of collectors.

Edit to add: And so would have he.

I can't believe I read both of those monster threads 

But keep in mind that the slabs in question are older types which are not airtight to the degree of most newer slabs.

What difference does that make? PCGS and NGC have both repeatedly admitted that their slabs are not airtight. Although the current slabs would take longer to tone it can still be done in a reasonable amount of time.

This ignores the fact that coins from the old rattler slabs can be artificially toned and then reslabbed into the current slab for $5.00 without being reexamined by the TPG.

Once again people,

LOOK AT THE COIN ITSELF NOT ANY SLAB IT HAPPENS TO BE IN!!! A slab only protects scumbags--not buyers and not the coin.

Not so much now...

Nor has it ever...nor has it ever protected anyone from buying a cleaned/damaged coin. Doesn't keep people from beliving the hype, though.

Anyone who has been here a while has probably heard my rant about slabbers before but here goes. (Copied from a PCGS forum thread on the same topic)

Slabbing has never been about protecting collectors.  It is about greed.  PERIOD!!!The ONLY people who benefit from a TPG are scamming dealers and investors wanting to buy coins like commodities. TPG's have never kept a dealer who wanted to sell a slider at the next (or the next two) grades up from doing so. It has instead made it much easier. Now all he has to do point to the label of his overgraded drek--yes, even from 1st tier companies--and say there is the grade; take it or leave it. The plastic collectors--who, of course, can't be bothered to actually LEARN something about what they are buying then line up to be bent over.

 

Did scammer dealers exist before slabbing? Sure they did. No one is trying to say otherwise. But, at least then, they weren't ripping off newbies for premiums of 300% to 500% (or more) what they would have paid for a properly graded coin. Then a premium of 50% to the next grade was rare; a 100% increase was almost unheard of.

The mailman was good to me last week! This first one I got in a trade with Vfox (so it's mine as long as he likes the Mexican coins I sent him!). I believe it's an O-102 or O-102a, but I am having a hard time with some of the details to attribute it with certainty.

It is the 102 not the "a" model.

Jim

Some new additions to the official "Babydoll Memorial Collection" that I picked up since her death last May...as you can tell, I don't have the eye she did.

Quoting Tiff since I can't find the drool icon...nice Indian. These Indians are all MUCH better looking than those ugly yellow things from the early 20th century.

I had to post my last coin purchase of the year.

Complements of James at EarlyUS.com

There's only one thing i want more than anything else either a 1796 or a 1797 dime in GVF.

Same auction as above

TPC graded as XF which is about as close to GVF as we Yankees can come.

Jim

Thanks for the link!  I see that the coin is in a PCGS holder yet it looks cleaned to me.  What's your opinion?

The color is kinda washed-out looking to me, but at least from the pic I really don't see any problems. Call Melissa at ANR and ask her about it. (or have someone who is attending eyeball it for you.)

Jim

I finally got one of those this year.  Not much in terms of grade but you know how hard they are to find problem-free.  Linky....

 

1796 50¢

 

I'm looking for a circulated problem free Gobrecht Dollar these days.  Tough coin to find.

Not bad at all on your half.

As for a Gobrect dollar...check out the current ANR auction

A skinny eagle reverse (1796-97) half dollar. a 1792 half disme (or a disme for that matter). I, too, have never owned any U.S. gold, but then, I have no disire for any either.

Jim

I picked this up to continue the collection my wife started for me

Agreed....looks like Barbed wire going arond the coin...truly spectacular......is it for sale? 

Sell one of the kids???????

Err...no.

Or a pretty "coin" which isn't a coin...

One of the best looking contemporary counterfeit bust halves I have ever seen.

or die clashes...

1817/3 half dollar

If you like die breaks...

1820 cent from the Randall hoard

BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!

Stu, 2 of your photoes above DO NOT match the title thread.

First, no gold coin--simply because of the metal of which it is made--can be considered to be pretty

Second, no Lincoln cent--by virtue of the man represented by the obverse--can ever be considered pretty.

We now return you to your normally scheduled thread on pretty coins.

BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!BEEEP!

Stamp collectors unite!!!

Well i agree with you. I've never really considered the SBA much, but it's definately not ugly.

 

Ugly to me is those Matron Head cents, they do pick some real mingers to put on the obverse. Oh then there's the Fluffalo Nickels and the Jeffs, and the Sacs. I'm not overtly keen on any of the seated Liberty stuff (it ain't ugly at all, they just don't look American to me, i think Switzerland).

 

Oh jeeze i thought i'd seen everything until i turned to the Gold produced between 1813-1839... yeuk. Just like the Matron head copper, nasty. You wouldn't want to meet her on a dark alley, then again the light of a well lit one wouldn't do her any favours neither.

Jim you must be referring to the Morgans. (Or was it the Ikes?) I forget.

I firmly believe that the Morgan dollar is BY FAR the ugliest obverse design in U.S. history. ( The reverse is okay but not enough to overcome the obverse.) The Lincoln cent ranks second on my ugly scale simply because of the vastly mythologized and over-rated man honored. Again, I like the reverse--wheat and memorial both--but cannot countenance honoring a tyrant like Lincoln.

I was hoo-hum about the SBA's design. (But hated the idea of a dollar coin.) The more I am forced to look at Saccies, however, the better the SBA looks to me.

Im glad the SBA came up, I like it though some refer to it as the ugliest coin in US history... even when it is all shiny and new.

What happened to that little lady?

 

-Bobby

The SBA (IMO, admittedly) isn't even close to the ugliest coin in U.S. history. But it was replaced by the 2nd ugliest dollar coin (and 3rd ugliest overall) in history!

Jim

I have spent half cents and large cents back to the 1830s. Two centers are always fun. I have been known to leave sSeated material from half dime to half dollar as tips. (But I prefer to spend obsoletes over the counter so that I can see the reaction.) I have spent more Morgans than I have kept. (not hard...I only own one). Never spent one of my silver bust coins...(yet!) Never spent a trade or seated dollar. Guess I need to hit a few junk boxes at the next show I attend.

Jim