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US Coins, World Coins, and More => US Coins, tokens and medals => Topic started by: coinsarefun on February 07, 2014, 02:26:59 PM
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Is coming up for auction soon Link to the Coin Week article (http://www.coinweek.com/featured-news/fabulous-eric-newman-collection-part-10-colonial-coins-pre-1793-american-items/)
A few sentences copied and pasted from the article here:
" A Higley Copper of any variety that is graded “AU-50†is of tremendous importance. It is unusual for a Higley to grade as high as Fine-15!
Furthermore, many surviving Higley Coppers have extensively corroded. Many others have been damaged.
High resolution images of this, Newman Collection, NGC graded “AU-50“ Higley are extraordinarily impressive. It has the most detail of any Higley Copper
that has been publicly offered in a very long time, as far as I know. The deer on the obverse (front) is well formed and the three crowned hammers on the reverse
are amazingly sharp!
Even if it has imperfections that I do not now know about, I am almost certain that the sale of this piece will set an auction record for a Higley Copper. "
Since most of us do not have a fortune to spend on this amazing piece of history and will go to one lucky person,
sometimes the next best thing to owning the real deal is an electrotype.
I have been very fortunate to stumble upon and purchase this electrotype of the rare piece and wanted to share it with all of you.
When I first saw it I knew it was special but had no idea it was the Newman specimen. As far as the age of this electrotype I will say
it must be very old as the collection has been stashed away for a very long time.
I'm going to send this piece and my other electrotypes to Goodman for proper images as mine are terrible.
But it just arrived today and I just had to share with everyone here.
Below is my piece on the left and Newman's on the right.
(http://i60.tinypic.com/rhmslg.jpg)
I'm showing below the large planchet size in comparison to the other Higley so you can get a feel for the coin.
I'm wondering if Crosby was responsible for both of these pieces?
(http://i58.tinypic.com/117s7pc.jpg)
(http://i57.tinypic.com/2pt3zuq.jpg)