An 1850 or 1849 $20 Lib with the adopted design but without the date. Made of gold-plated copper. One known. No price history. The gold plating was done before striking so CAC accepted it. Apparently ex-Farouk hence the cleaning hairlines but PCGS and CAC probably relaxed their standards for this prestigious coin. There is also a silver version.
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The coin doesn't necessarily strike me as "the most interesting Relatively Cheap CAC Coin of All Time".
I don't necessarily think it's "relatively cheap". We don't even have a good idea regarding what it will bring, yet.
Many coins have "cleaning hairlines" and contrary to what some people mistakenly believe, many Farouk coins weren't cleaned.
Not having viewed the coin in hand, I wouldn't assume that "PCGS and CAC probably relaxed their standards for this prestigious coin."
The TrueViews show an extremely unnatural brightness, so I definitely believe that CAC and PCGS relaxed their standards just as they seemed to have done for other prestigious coins.
Many of the patterns that I have owned had a similar "pattern" of profuse hairlines seemingly unique to Farouk patterns, even though his pedigree was not on the TPG insert. His "coin conserver", as he put it, ruined many a coin in the same way. But I was unaware that some in his collection were spared from this abuse.
Regardless, what does "it will probably be relatively cheap for its intrigue level compared to the many six, seven, and eight figure coins recently sold' have to do with your original question/point of "The Most Interesting Relatively Cheap CAC Coin of All Time?"
It's difficult to agree with you when you use hyperbole, as you tend to do.
Disagreement does not equate to hyperbole. And what law says that you must agree with everything that someone posts?
And speaking of "hyperbole", what do you think causes some coins to achieve such staggeringly high auction prices? The unique 1870-S half dime is probably worth even more than its current $2 million PCGS Price Guide value and certainly more than its most recent $661,250 auction price, but do you really think that the common 1938-S dime in MS68+FB CAC (top pop) was actually worth the $364,250 for which it auctioned in 2019? Its then-PCGS Price Guide worth was merely $4,750 in MS68FB.
I doubt that many retailers will always agree with any ex-TPG grader/auction company employee.
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MY REPLY: You do not know the definition of hyperbole.
a way of speaking or writing that makes someone or something sound much bigger, better, smaller, worse, more unusual, etc., than they are”
I guess that as far as you’re concerned,
“The most” and “of all time” in this thread’s title don’t qualify.
I’ve wasted too much time conversing with you. So unless I forget, this will be the last time that I reply to any of your posts. Post away.
I am old. I know things, you know...
And I actually have confused Mark Feld with Mark Feldman in the past. Oops!