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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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?

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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

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Mien Gott, that is one beutiful coin. It looks proof quality, but of course, they didn't mint proof coins back then.

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Wow that looks like a reproduction.

Isnt it??


T

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Is it? I can't tell.

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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.

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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.

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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 ".

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Nice coin. Looks like an F-12 to me.

Too bad it looks like it has been cleaned.