14.17 sold tonight

[keydates]

How many saw the 1878 14.17 at auction tonight?
How many bid?
Was cleaned but still a rear vam.
Anyone want to say they bought it?
I was under bidder

[vampicker]

I gotta ask - did you give it a couple more bids because it wasn't attributed?

[keydates]

The bidding stopped before auction at 135.00 plus buyer fee.
It went from that to say 3000.00 fast.
Them I think there was just couple guys bidding at last.
With only 5 seconds to bid it still went fast.
I bid 4000.00 and next bid at 4200.00 plus buying fee I let it go.
5040.00 with buyer fee.

[vampicker]

I ask because to me it seems sometimes the truly rare stuff sells for more if it's unattributed. Hard to pick a better 78 variety of any sort, let alone one of the key 8 TF marriages off an auction site without anyone else spotting it.

[DHalladay]

I'd love to have seen the consignor's reaction!

[vamnuke]

[messydesk]

Here's the link

(Moved to discussion board, since this was never an active auction at the time it was posted.)

[vamnuke]

I ask because to me it seems sometimes the truly rare stuff sells for more if it's unattributed. Hard to pick a better 78 variety of any sort, let alone one of the key 8 TF marriages off an auction site without anyone else spotting it.

That’s pretty much true nowadays, but , sometimes things still go un-noticed, especially in the ‘bay.

[bhinkle]

WOW! I learn so much, from this site and reading you posts.
I was lucky enough to have found an 1878 8TF DMPL vam 23, after seeing the doubled lips, on the seller's pictures a
long time ago and won it and I posted pictures of it many years ago.
I didn't know, about this R-7 vam 14.17.
I'm going to find my vam 23 and check for any of the vam 14.17 die markers and check through my box of unattributed
8TF's.
I looked at the auction and I could not see doubling in the lips, that you are talking about or any of the other die markers, from the Heritage enlarged pictures.
I did see the tiny dot, on he back of the ear.
What did you see, that made you know it was the rare vam 14.17?
Thank you, Bert

[vamnuke]

Look at radial die crack to right of the date at the 1st star; A1C reverse shared with many obverses; coin is PL too, for starters…

[bhinkle]

Thank you Clayton,
I just got on my old computer, where I had my vam 23 saved and going to post
pictures of it now.
One of my most exciting Morgan finds.
Bert

[Options25]

The one time I wasn't looking. SMH

[keydates]

Jim I thought you might have bought it.
So far no one on this site has stepped up and said they saw it for sale.
My question did anyone even see it?

I know probably 3 to 5 might have been bidding.
Just my guess.

[mark]

The one time I wasn't looking. SMH

Amazingly I bought another 1878 in this auction and didn't even look at this coin since it was cleaned.