Aurora Borealis's Coin Album
This beautiful Buffalo Nickel originally came to me in a MS66 Star holder. I submitted it shortly after into PCGS and it successfully crossed into a PCGS MS66 holder and then received a CAC sticker shortly after that. Then I believe it was 4 years ago PCGS asked me if they could use this piece for their news feeds and shortly after that this beautiful Trueview of it appeared in their advertisement for that years Long Beach Show crossover special. I was honored to say the least! The wonderful color and luster of this piece are off the charts and one of the finest toned Buffalo`s I have ever seen.....
This newly acquired Mercury Dime is tied for a top pop coin with 24 other 1939-D`s, With that said it is one of the few that are totally toned from rim to rim on both sides and only two others are CAC`d as this piece is. Many of the other 24 coins were stored in a cardboard card holder, type board with a cardboard strap across the coin on a diagonal which caused a blank area of color where the strap had gone across the coin. This piece could have been stored in an envelope but more likely was stored in an album for many years. Either way this beautiful little Gem is absolutely off the charts.....
Tied for top pop with 2 other Roosies, this Roosevelt Dime with it`s amazing bright color and luster has eye appeal off the charts! One of the best I have ever seen.....
This beautiful Standing Liberty Quarter with it`s fantastic strike is one of the finest toned SLQ`s I have ever seen. Obviously it has been in an album for many years to acquire this very beautiful two sided toning. The eye appeal is off the charts and is one of my favorite type coins in my collection.....
Acquired from a good friend of mine, Tom Turissini a top collector of copper coins gave me an amazing opportunity and opened up his private collection of toned Morgan Dollars to me some years ago, simply because he knew I had a love for beautifully toned Morgan Dollars. This beautiful former Bryan Sonnier Morgan has everything I like. Rim to rim multi color with blazing luster the pristine surfaces just glow. The pure smooth and flowing color is why we have named this piece "Purity".....
Acquired from my good friend the late Mike DeFalco. This amazing Morgan is the finest toned Morgan I have ever seen. Taking into account the combination of pristine surfaces and the absolute stunning, lustrous, and totally clear, rim to rim color. This Morgan Dollar had been known for many years as "The Killer Tomato" and the color fits it to a tee. So with that said and it`s former history I decided to keep it the same name that so many people know it as......
This amazing Morgan Dollar is know as "The Moose". Chances are if you have been to any major coin shows you have seen posters of this very popular coin. I acquired it at the 2014 Sunnywood / Simpson Auction in Vegas that Legend Rare Coin Auctions put on. There were amazing Morgans in that sale as a complete date set that was put together over many years. I was ecstatic to be the new caretaker of such an amazing coin. PCGS featured "The Moose" with Legend Rare Coin Auctions sponsoring this piece as the November coin in the PCGS 2015 calendar. It has been a great honor for me.....
Another Morgan Dollar I acquired from my friend the late Mike DeFalco. This piece is such a stunner with pristine surfaces and such beautiful colors. The way that the colors make an arc coming down across Liberty`s forehead and continuing down, give it a perfect rainbow effect. Hence the name "Perfect Rainbow".....
Another Morgan Dollar I acquired from my friend the late Mike DeFalco. This was my very first mint state 68 Morgan. It was originally in a MS68 Star holder. There were no plus grades back then and some years later I sent it into PCGS for a crossover and it came back in PCGS MS68+ holder. It appears to have been positioned in the mint bag near the seam as the center band of color along with a textile pattern and within that area what appears to be the actual stitches, (blue, pink and gold) impression-ed in color in a central arc across the coin. That along with the pristine surfaces and rim to rim color, we gave it the name "Stitched Perfection". Mike once told me at that time, it was technically the finest toned Morgan Dollar he had ever handled.....
"Grease Lightning". What a great character coin! I acquired this Morgan Dollar from my friend and top of the line coin dealer Bonnie Sabel. Bonnie has handled many top pop and amazing toned coins with this piece being absolutely one of those. This Morgan appears to have been positioned in the original mint bag directly on the seam with the loose threads spiralling across the neck of Liberty and one strand curling up through the eye. This amazing type of toning associated with the threads is very rare and I have only seen it a few other times.....
This tied for top pop 1882-S Godzilla of a Morgan Dollar which the colors remind me of those little fish I used to have when I was a kid. Hence the name "Neon Tetra" which actually came to me in a lucky second chance. The first time I saw this coin was at a Legend Rare Coin Auction and was in the very first Northern Lights Sale. A series of toned Morgan Dollar auctions that were put on by Legend in Vegas in conjunction with the PCGS Invitational members only shows. I ended up being an under bidder. Go forward a couple of years and one day during the California Long Beach show that I was unable to attend that year, I get a phone call from a coin dealer friend of mine saying that he just saw an awesome toned 1882-S Morgan Dollar at a dealers table. So I asked if he could send me a picture and sure enough it`s the same Morgan and the rest is history! PCGS again with the sponsor Legend Rare Coins for the month of June 2017 featured this piece in their calendar. Another super honor it has been.....
I decided to include a few of my finest and most eye appealing type coins that I have also collected to show a bit of diversity in this competition group. This 1956 P Franklin Half Dollar has an amazing end of roll pattern that was speculated to have been stored in a plastic tube with tissue paper of some sort crumpled up in the ends of the tube to prevent the coins from shifting back and forth. It was that contact with the tissue paper that toned this Half Dollar. Again this is just speculation but given the beautiful, clear color, dripping luster, and no oxidation to cloudy up the color it seems very plausible. However it toned it`s an amazing toned coin....
