#6: 1887/6-P MS63 in a super-rare PCGS Prestige holder – $4,800 all-in.
Current PCGS Price Guide value for the variety is $775. Prestige holders are spectacularly rare and intensely sought after, with only about 200 believed to have been made during the brief time they were offered. Israeli coins make up a big chunk of the total, which makes one with a meaningful Morgan dollar even more desirable. I sort of get this one.
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#5: 1884-O PCGS MS63 DMPL – $800 all-in.
Current PCGS Price Guide value is $280 and PCGS has graded almost 2,500 1884-Os in all DMPL grades. Price Guide value for a 64 DMPL is just $450. None of them are rare… or even scarce.
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#4: 1879-O PCGS MS63 (CAC green) – $1,140 all-in.
Current PCGS Price Guide value is $425. Admittedly, the photo shows what looks like a stunningly nice coin for the grade, but the final all-in price was 50% more than Price Guide value for an MS64.
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#3: 1880-S NGC MS65 “no line fatty” holder (CAC gold) – $1,560 all-in.
This is where Total Bizarro Land starts IMO. There is nothing rare about 1880-S in any grade less than MS69 and it wasn’t so long ago that MS65s were barely $100. Current PCGS Price Guide value for an MS67 is only $1,100.
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#2: 1886-P NGC MS64 “no line fatty” w/gold lettering on reverse – $1,560 all-in.
Deep in Total Bizarro Land is this otherwise $85 coin (Coin Dealer Newsletter) with ugly toning. That said, Heritage’s obverse photo shows what is either huge mechanical doubling or big north-south doubling on 886 that doesn’t seem to be in SSDC’s 1886-P VAM listings.
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It is wierd times with a ton of cash money
