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madfranks | 09-18-2008 11:19 AM
1810 $5 Half Eagle Pics Here's a nice coin I picked up the other day. Yes I know, any of you with a red book will tell me that I could have gotten much more gold for the buck by going with bullion, but I am a collector at heart, and I suspect, always will be. Enjoy the pics! http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/8461/auag001rp0.jpg http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/a...jpg/1/w640.png http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/9286/auag002kc1.jpg http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/a...jpg/1/w640.png

CoinHunter53562 | 09-18-2008 11:40 AM
Re: 1810 $5 Half Eagle Pics Very nice and yes I am slightly jealous. I always find the early US Mint coins (late 1790's early 1800's for the non-collectors) to be interesting. I cant help but wonder about the history of that coin over the past 198 years.

SLV>GLD | 09-18-2008 11:41 AM
Re: 1810 $5 Half Eagle Pics Let me get this straight. That coin only has a USD face value. No purity or weight stamped? I'm obviously not ready to move outside the bullion arena.

TheNocturnalEgyptian | 09-19-2008 12:03 AM
Re: 1810 $5 Half Eagle Pics Those coins were minted when a US dollar had a grain amount tied to the coins...you instantly knew the weight but not the purity based on the face value.

TheNocturnalEgyptian | 09-19-2008 12:08 AM
Re: 1810 $5 Half Eagle Pics I have more information and pictures here. Forgive the writing style, I was drunk at the time. http://goldismoney.info/forums/showthread.php?t=299224

Hellsbane | 09-21-2008 01:16 PM
Re: 1810 $5 Half Eagle Pics Quote:
Originally Posted by madfranks (Post 1298052) Here's a nice coin I picked up the other day. Yes I know, any of you with a red book will tell me that I could have gotten much more gold for the buck by going with bullion, but I am a collector at heart, and I suspect, always will be. Enjoy the pics! http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/8461/auag001rp0.jpg http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/a...jpg/1/w640.png http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/9286/auag002kc1.jpg http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/a...jpg/1/w640.png
Look at that nasty nick on the backside edge of that coin, " bottom picture ". Don't you hate it when they cut a chunck out of such coins to verify that its gold?

madfranks | 09-22-2008 09:54 AM
Re: 1810 $5 Half Eagle Pics Quote:
Originally Posted by SLV>GLD (Post 1298119) Let me get this straight. That coin only has a USD face value. No purity or weight stamped? I'm obviously not ready to move outside the bullion arena.
You think that's bad? A few years earlier and there were no face values on the coin either! It was just a gold coin, plain and simple! See, for instance, this 1804 half eagle: http://www.coinace.com/images/1804-$...in-4-Proof.jpg

Hellsbane | 09-22-2008 02:24 PM
Re: 1810 $5 Half Eagle Pics Quote:
Originally Posted by madfranks (Post 1305887) You think that's bad? A few years earlier and there were no face values on the coin either! It was just a gold coin, plain and simple! See, for instance, this 1804 half eagle: http://www.coinace.com/images/1804-$...in-4-Proof.jpg
Mien Gott, that is one beutiful coin. It looks proof quality, but of course, they didn't mint proof coins back then.

Twisted Avatar | 09-22-2008 02:49 PM
Re: 1810 $5 Half Eagle Pics Quote:
Originally Posted by Hellsbane (Post 1306342) Mien Gott, that is one beutiful coin. It looks proof quality, but of course, they didn't mint proof coins back then.
Wow that looks like a reproduction. Isnt it?? T

Hellsbane | 09-22-2008 03:11 PM
Re: 1810 $5 Half Eagle Pics Quote:
Originally Posted by Twisted Avatar (Post 1306408) Wow that looks like a reproduction. Isnt it?? T
Is it? I can't tell.

ladygoldisliberty | 09-22-2008 03:15 PM
Re: 1810 $5 Half Eagle Pics Quote:
Originally Posted by Hellsbane (Post 1306473) Is it? I can't tell.
You are looking at the real deal. For example my favorite, the 1804 �plain 4� Proof Eagle example, only 4 were minted with one resting comfortably in the ANA museum. In 1980 this coin was valued at $50,000 and in 2005 was sold by Albanese Rare Coins (http://www.coinace.com ) to a private collector for $2 + million dollars.

ladygoldisliberty | 09-22-2008 03:19 PM
Re: 1810 $5 Half Eagle Pics 1 Attachment(s) Quote:
Originally Posted by Twisted Avatar (Post 1306408) Wow that looks like a reproduction. Isnt it?? T
And, Twisty and others, here's an astounding $20 Proof Liberty...talk about "eye candy!!" Ya, mein Gott in himmel! Additionally: One of the rarest of rare proof double eagles 1883 $20 Liberty PF66 ULTRA CAMEO certified by NGC. Tied for finest known pop 2/0 – A true “classic rarity” - Considered one of the 3 rarest of all proof double eagles along with the 1884 and 1887 this coin brought $385,000.

Hellsbane | 09-22-2008 03:47 PM
Re: 1810 $5 Half Eagle Pics Quote:
Originally Posted by ladygoldisliberty (Post 1306493) And, Twisty and others, here's an astounding $20 Proof Liberty...talk about "eye candy!!" Ya, mein Gott in himmel! Additionally: One of the rarest of rare proof double eagles 1883 $20 Liberty PF66 ULTRA CAMEO certified by NGC. Tied for finest known pop 2/0 � A true �classic rarity� - Considered one of the 3 rarest of all proof double eagles along with the 1884 and 1887 this coin brought $385,000.
I had no idea they minted proof coins back then. Guess i been away from the books too long, " its been years sinse i cracked a numismatist book ".

RossL | 09-22-2008 09:00 PM
Re: 1810 $5 Half Eagle Pics Quote:
Originally Posted by madfranks (Post 1298052) Here's a nice coin I picked up the other day. Yes I know, any of you with a red book will tell me that I could have gotten much more gold for the buck by going with bullion, but I am a collector at heart, and I suspect, always will be. Enjoy the pics! http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/8461/auag001rp0.jpg http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/a...jpg/1/w640.png http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/9286/auag002kc1.jpg http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/a...jpg/1/w640.png
Nice coin. Looks like an F-12 to me. Too bad it looks like it has been cleaned.

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