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Monday, June 30, 2008

COIN WORLD ARTICLE ABOUT THE "CC" MINT

Greetings C4OA members. I just recieved my new issue of coin world today (July 7, 2008) and read with interest a nice article (page 77) written by CW staff member Cindy Brake. she makes many references to quotes by our own Rusty Goe. she also mentions his great book James Crawford Master of the Mint at Carson City - A Short Full Life. At the end of her 2nd paragraph in the article, Cindy mistakenly states that "In total 57 different coins would be issued" ( by the Carson mint). Of course we all know that 57 coins is the correct total for the three gold denominations but she was refering to the total gold and silver coin output which we also all know to be 111 coins. Other than that, Cindy wrote a nice article here and provided some nice pictures as well. those include: The "CC" mint circa 1879, weighing scales housed in the NV State Museum, obverse & reverse of an 1870-CC seated dollar - 1884-CC $20 - 1870-CC $20 - 1876-CC twenty center & the one and only (as in unique) 1873-CC without arrows dime. All in all, a nice article by Cindy.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Second 1873-CC No Arrows?

Has anyone gotten to the bottom of the "phantom" 1873-CC No Arrows dime that appeared in the PCGS population report a few years ago? The last thing I read about it was Rusty Goe's article in the E-Sylum Volume 6, Number 24 on June 15, 2003.

Any updates?

1870-CC DOUBLE EAGLE IN NGC XF-40 BRINGS $299,000

On Wednesday evening June 25, 2008 in New York City, an 1870-CC $20 gold piece graded XF-40 by NGC sold for $299,000 ($260,000 hammer price). Pre-sale estimates suggested that this coin might bring in excess of $325,000. In fact, a poll conducted on C4OA's blogsite resulted in a majority opinion of a price realized of $350,000 or higher.

This specimen of the rarest date/denomination in the "CC" gold coin series was featured in Stack's Husky sale which included a fine assortment of U.S. gold pieces.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

1870-CC DOUBLE EAGLE DIE VARIETY 1-A EXPLAINED

This posting is in response to several questions about the 1-A Die variety on 1870-CC $20 gold pieces.

There are two known die varieties for this date, the 1-A and 2-B. The purpose of these designations is to point out distinctive characteristics displayed on each variety.

The Die 1-A variety features a large date with bold details. As seen in the arrow in the image to the left, the "1" in "1870" is near Liberty's neck. The arrow to the right shows the location of the small mintmark in relation to the bottom of the eagle's tailfeathers and the letters NT in TWENTY.


The location of the date and mintmark on the Die 2-B variety is noticeably different.

It's unknown which die variety the Carson Mint first used, although my guess is the 1-A.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Question on the 1870 CC

The Husky description refers to Dies 1-A. Can anyone discuss that? How many dies were there? How they are different? Were 1 and A the first die combination used?

Sunday, June 8, 2008

GREAT NEW CURRY'S CHRONICLE

Thank you C4OA members for another great issue of Curry's Chronicle. Wonderful articles by all (with a special thanks to Otto for your flattering reference to "the Drummer"!) The printers even got this one right...this time! Keep up the good work everyone. I still say the HUSKY 1870-CC double eagle XF-40 goes for close to 400K. We'll wait and see.

Thursday, June 5, 2008

1870 CC Double Eagle

I noticed there is a poll here about how much a mint state 1870-CC Double Eagle would sell for. I see that in the Husky Collection, being sold by Stacks on June 25, there is an 1870-CC Double Eagle Dies 1-A graded NGC EF-40.

The Bergstrom Collection, also being sold by Stacks on June 25 has two 1871-CC double eagles, PCI AU50 "cleaned" and a raw EF-45. Also 5 1872-CC double eagles. Plenty of other CC double eagles including an NGC MS-62 1875-CC.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

1875 S/CC Trade Dollars

I enjoyed all the articles on Trade Dollars in the Summer 2008 issue, since I do not have any, and it is the only silver dollar issue I have not studied in any detail on my own. Comments by Member 0077 that he owns 107 CC Trade Dollars and 3 1875 S/CC dollars got me to recall that Bowers and Merena once had two of the 1875 S/CC listed for sale in the Rare Coin Review some time ago, possibly 1999. Both were chopmarked. I should have bought one then! But at the time I was just getting acquanted with CC dollars and was concentrating on acquiring the Morgans. The Summer 2008 issue was one of the best yet, by the way.