Certified Assets - Rare Coins » Archives http://www.certifiedassets.com/Coins "Changing The Landscape of Numismatic Trading" Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:13:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 en 1831 Bust Half 50c NGC MS-66 http://www.certifiedassets.com/Coins/highlights/archives/nickelsilver-coins-sold/1831-bust-half-50c-ngc-ms-66/ http://www.certifiedassets.com/Coins/highlights/archives/nickelsilver-coins-sold/1831-bust-half-50c-ngc-ms-66/#comments Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:40:54 +0000 admin http://www.certifiedassets.com/Coins/?p=1655
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    NGC MS-66

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    NGC MS-67 Type 2

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    ]]>     http://www.certifiedassets.com/Coins/gold/1855-type-2-gold-dollar-ms-67/feed/     1883 $2.50 Quarter Eagle NGC PR-66 Ultra Cameo - CAC http://www.certifiedassets.com/Coins/highlights/archives/gold-coins-sold/1883-250-quarter-eagle-ngc-pr-66-ultra-cameo-cac/ http://www.certifiedassets.com/Coins/highlights/archives/gold-coins-sold/1883-250-quarter-eagle-ngc-pr-66-ultra-cameo-cac/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:37:28 +0000 admin http://www.certifiedassets.com/Coins/?p=1597
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    Original Mintage of Only 82 Coins - CAC Stickered

    1883 $2.50 Quarter Eagle NGC PR-66 Ultra Cameo Most quarter eagles of the 1880s are low mintage issues, such as the 1883, with a business strike production of 1,920 coins and a proof mintage of just 82 more.While this was actually the highest proof production for the denomination in over two decades, many numismatic scholars believe that a number of the pieces were melted as unsold. As a post-1881 issue, it does not sport the coveted low mintage of previous years, yet it is much less available than the 20th century Coronet quarter eagle proofs.

    Proof Ultra Cameo Gold is Always in Demand
    1883 $2.50 Quarter Eagle NGC PR-66 Ultra Cameo This issue is subject to high date-collector pressure, owing to the extreme rarity of business strikes. NGC and PCGS have graded fewer than 50 1883 proof quarter eagles, some of which are likely resubmitted coins. Most of the certified specimens are Cameo or Ultra/Deep Cameo.

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    ]]>     http://www.certifiedassets.com/Coins/highlights/archives/gold-coins-sold/1883-250-quarter-eagle-ngc-pr-66-ultra-cameo-cac/feed/     1893-S Morgan Dollar NGC MS-65 http://www.certifiedassets.com/Coins/highlights/archives/nickelsilver-coins-sold/1893-s-morgan-dollar-ngc-ms-65/ http://www.certifiedassets.com/Coins/highlights/archives/nickelsilver-coins-sold/1893-s-morgan-dollar-ngc-ms-65/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:05:28 +0000 stevenh http://www.certifiedassets.com/Coins/?p=1414
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    Key Date - Rarest Regular Issue - Top 100 Greatest

    1893-S Morgan Dollar NGC MS-65 The 1893-S Silver dollar has the lowest mintage of the series and is the rarest,. regular-issue Morgan dollar. Because of the large number of Silver dollar collectors, this KEY date is always in demand.Even low grade examples bring thousands of dollars. Uncirculated examples are very scarce and only a fraction of the original mintage survives in original condition.

    With the advent of Registry sets and the huge base of Morgan Dollar collectors attempting to put together complete sets, both Demand and prices for the limited number of 1893-S Gem examples remains (and will continue to remain) very strong. There are thousands of collectors who would love to get their hands on a Mint State 1893-S Dollar!

    One of the TOP 100 Greatest US Coins
    1893-S Morgan Dollar NGC MS-65 The Morgan dollar’s story is a Cinderella tale: Until the 1960s, it was largely ignored by the public. Since then, it has gradually become among the most widely pursued and desired of all U. S. coins.Although many collectors find the challenge of assembling a complete date and mintmark set in Mint State compelling, others satisfy themselves with collecting just one coin per year. Exceptional specimens are also sought after by type collectors.

    Morgan’s obverse features a left-facing portrait of Miss Liberty. The reverse depicts a somewhat scrawny eagle which led some to vilify the coin as a “buzzard dollar.” The designer’s initial M appears on both sides—a first.

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    ]]>     http://www.certifiedassets.com/Coins/highlights/archives/nickelsilver-coins-sold/1893-s-morgan-dollar-ngc-ms-65/feed/     1895 $1 NGC PF-68 Cameo http://www.certifiedassets.com/Coins/100-greatest/1895-1-ngc-pf-68-cameo/ http://www.certifiedassets.com/Coins/100-greatest/1895-1-ngc-pf-68-cameo/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:14:32 +0000 admin http://www.certifiedassets.com/Coins/?p=1353
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    The King of Morgan Dollars

    1895 $1 NGC PF-68 Cameo The Proof 1895 Silver Dollar is one of the keys to completing the enormously popular Morgan Dollar series. Unfortunately, many of the surviving pieces are impaired through careless handling and/or crude attempts at cleaning.In 1895, the purchasing of “proof sets” directly from the Philadelphia Mint had become an annual ritual for several hundred American coin collectors. A mere 880 proof sets with the Silver Dollar were sold in 1895.Besides the annual issue of Proofs, most coin collectors at the time routinely ignored the regular issue coins. It was not until the 1950s and 1960s when collectors started to seek out examples of each mint’s products for each respective date did it become apparent that none of the 12,000 1895 Philadelphia Mint Dollars reportedly struck for circulation could be found. Not a single verifiable example could be located.

    As such the collector demand for the 1895 Morgan Dollar has never fallen and can only be filled by finding one of the few hundred Proofs minted that year.

    Gem or better examples such as this Proof-68 Cameo are very rare and highly sought, thus commanding premiums when they do become available .

    The 1895 remains underrated in general, yet immensely popular with series enthusiasts.
    1895 $1 NGC PF-68 Cameo

    Original Mintage Only 880 Coins

    Background Info

    The Philadelphia Mint delivered 12,000 business strike Morgan dollars in 1895–at least that’s what the official government records say. To date, collectors have failed to confirm the existence of a single business strike 1895-P Morgan dollar. Although well known to specialists, we repeat here two of the more popular theories surrounding this fantastic business strike issue:

    • The 12,000 coins reported in the Philadelphia Mint ledger could have represented the last of the 1894-dated coins delivered to the chief coiner.
    • Twelve bags of business strike 1895 dollars could have been produced, yet retained in federal vaults until they were destroyed by melting, after passage of the Pittman Act in 1918.

    While recent research has deepened the mystery, it has failed to completely put to rest any of the current theories . Perhaps we will never know whether the Philadelphia Mint produced business strike dollars in 1895 or, if it did, what happened to all of them. What we do know for certain is that every Morgan dollar specialists must acquire a survivor of the 880-piece proof delivery, creating enormous demand for this date.

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    ]]>     http://www.certifiedassets.com/Coins/100-greatest/1895-1-ngc-pf-68-cameo/feed/     1907 High Relief $20 NGC MS-66 Wire Rim CAC http://www.certifiedassets.com/Coins/highlights/archives/1907-high-relief-20-ngc-ms-66-wire-rim/ http://www.certifiedassets.com/Coins/highlights/archives/1907-high-relief-20-ngc-ms-66-wire-rim/#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:00:01 +0000 admin http://www.certifiedassets.com/Coins/?p=1231
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    CAC Stickered - Saint Gaudens High Relief

    President Roosevelt believed U.S. coinage at the turn of the last century was bland and uninspired. In fact, he went even further and said it was “artistically of atrocious hideousness.” Roosevelt did know what he liked, and Roosevelt enlisted Saint-Gaudens support for redesigning U.S. coinage.It took two years for the sculptor to work the coin designs with the design inspired by the Nike of Samothrace that stands atop the Grand Staircase in the Louvre.The efforts to produce the new high-relief double eagle were compromised by the artist’s declining health and by resistance from the Mint’s Chief Engraver Charles E. Barber, who maintained from the start the impracticality of a high relief design for circulating coins. Nonetheless, this grand struggle produced a coin that is often called the epitome of U.S. coin design.High Relief coins took five strikes to bring up the detail, and the wire rim was caused by metal flowing between the dies and the collar from the multiple strikes.

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    ]]>     http://www.certifiedassets.com/Coins/highlights/archives/1907-high-relief-20-ngc-ms-66-wire-rim/feed/     1799 Dollar PCGS AU-58 B-21 CAC http://www.certifiedassets.com/Coins/highlights/archives/1799-dollar-pcgs-au-58-b-21-cac/ http://www.certifiedassets.com/Coins/highlights/archives/1799-dollar-pcgs-au-58-b-21-cac/#comments Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:00:00 +0000 admin http://www.certifiedassets.com/Coins/?p=1256
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    Hesselgesser / Queller B-21 BB-169

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    CAC Stickered Flat Edge HR

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    ]]>     http://www.certifiedassets.com/Coins/highlights/archives/1907-high-relief-20-pcgs-ms-64-flat-edge-cac/feed/     1911-S $20 Saint PCGS-65 CAC http://www.certifiedassets.com/Coins/highlights/archives/gold-coins-sold/1911-s-20-saint-pcgs-65-cac/ http://www.certifiedassets.com/Coins/highlights/archives/gold-coins-sold/1911-s-20-saint-pcgs-65-cac/#comments Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:47:21 +0000 admin http://www.certifiedassets.com/Coins/?p=1246
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    CAC Stickered PCGS MS-65

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    Saint Gaudens - Wire Rim

    1907 HR $20 Wire Rim NGC MS-67 President Roosevelt believed U.S. coinage at the turn of the last century was bland and uninspired. In fact, he went even further and said it was “artistically of atrocious hideousness.” Roosevelt did know what he liked, and Roosevelt enlisted Saint-Gaudens support for redesigning U.S. coinage.It took two years for the sculptor to work the coin designs with the design inspired by the Nike of Samothrace that stands atop the Grand Staircase in the Louvre.

    The efforts to produce the new high-relief double eagle were compromised by the artist’s declining health and by resistance from the Mint’s Chief Engraver Charles E. Barber, who maintained from the start the impracticality of a high relief design for circulating coins. Nonetheless, this grand struggle produced a coin that is often called the epitome of U.S. coin design.

    High Relief coins took five strikes to bring up the detail, and the wire rim was caused by metal flowing between the dies and the collar from the multiple strikes.
    1907 HR $20 Wire Rim NGC MS-67

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