The Collectors' Auction 2008
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Please Note: A 15% Buyers' Premium is added to the hammer price of all lots in this sale.
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Lot Title:
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1917-S PCGS MS-65.
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Description:
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Remarkably attractive, steely mint luster suffuses this entire 1917-S buffalo nickel, and the strike is incredibly sharp for an issue whose detail usually lacks precision. As your cataloger is describing this lot, ANA Baltimore is seeing the sale of a 1917-S in an NGC MS-67 holder that is described as "sharply struck". Although that coin is technically superior to the present piece in terms of preservation, the fact is that this PCGS MS-65 is visibly better struck than that NGC coin. To wit, there is none of the die erosion that characterizes many examples, and so the young dies still retained all of the original detail that was to be subsequently conferred upon the planchet. Thus, we have a coin which literally stands right next to prooflike sharpness, though of course, it has normal business strike surface texture.
It might be worthwhile to note that the dies used to strike this issue were put in service for so long, and required so much repolishing that two-feather and "no F" examples are known to exist. A few of the most trivial carbon spots imaginable are distributed across each side, but they do not impair the eye appeal or the grade at all, and it is merely a handful of inoffensive bagmarks, mostly concentrated on the bison's shoulder, that determine the grade. There are higher graded examples of 1917-S available, but the serious connoisseur who insists on the finest possible level of detail simply must consider this noteworthy coin.
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Low Estimate:
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$3,300.00 |
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High Estimate:
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$3,700.00 |
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Lot Status:
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Bidding has been closed for this lot. |
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Hammered Price: |
$3,550.00
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Price Realized:
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$4,082.50 |
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Price history for items of the same classification:
| Lot # | Auction | Current Bid or Hammer Price | Description |
| 224 | The Collectors' Auction 2009 on 10/16/2009 | $370.00 |
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1917-S XF and 1919-D XF.
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1917-S assuredly grades fully XF-45, while the 1919-D is a nice XF-40, and both coins display a full horn. A small lamination can be see on the Indian's chin, and a much larger one slices across the... |
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