Gallery Mint Museum by Ron Landis and Joe Rust

DRE

Here are the GMM Copies I have filling my "unfillable" slots

Half Cents
1793 Liberty Cap Facing Left
1794 Liberty Cap Large Head Facing Right
1795-1797 Liberty Cap Small Head Facing Right With Pole

Large Cents
1793 Flowing Hair Chain or Link AMERI. Version
1793 Flowing Hair Chain or Link AMERICA version
1793 Flowing Hair Wreath
1793-1796 Liberty Cap

Half Dimes
1794-1795 Liberty Head, Flowing Hair, Small Eagle
1796-1797 Draped Bust, Small Eagle

Dimes
1796-1797 Draped Bust, Small Eagle

Quarter-Dollar
1796 Draped Bust Facing Right, Small Eagle

Half-Dollars
1794-1795 Flowing Hair, Bust Facing Right
1796-1797 Draped Bust, Small Eagle 15 Stars
1796 Draped Bust, Small Eagle 16 Stars

Dollars
1794-1795 Flowing Hair Bust Facing Right, Small Eagle
1795-1798 Draped Bust, Small Eagle
1798-1804 Draped Bust, Large or Heraldic Eagle

Some Early Gold Type Examples are Available

I use the Lighthouse slab holders and use Premiere Slabs to house the GMMs. All are labelled and fit into my Type Collection nicely. Using these, I have been able to complete the entire US Type Coinage collection (except for some early gold).

LukeMarshall

@DRE

Nice collection of Gallery Mint Items and welcome to the forums!

DRE

Ron Landis engraved his dies as close to the original dies the coins were minted with. He engraved when indicated or stamped as with the numbers or dates as he researched and learned the original die cutters did. Joe Rust had the screw type minting press and pressing knowledge. What a team they were. They created reproduction coins as close to the originals as anyone has produced, even to this day. They used the same silver content as the originals so when you get a GMM Copy, you know it's as close to the original as you can get. Even the gold coins were minted with the original gold content.

Then, Joe Rust passed away. Ron seemed to have lost his impetus in continuing with their goal of reproducing the early US coins. The only early one they didn't reproduce was the Half Dime with the Heraldic Eagle.

Type collectors are missing out if they don't get these coins to fill their empty holes. Yes, there's other reproductions, but, they don't come close to the ones they minted.

coinsarefun

I saw this on twitter today.

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Zoins

@coinsarefun said:
I saw this on twitter today.

Very cool! Ron's done a lot of great work with hobo nickels himself, along with medals and tokens for the OHNS.

It's great that Ron's initials are on this and it's attributed to him. It's interesting that it seems "TDW" is not known in as little as 30 years given the ANA Money Museum's caption.

It's amazing Bill Fivaz is Life Member #1! I'm guessing the LM in CLM means Life Member. I wonder what C means?

It's a bit curious that the ANA Money Museum didn't at mention the OHNS's Twitter account: https://twitter.com/Hobo_Nickel_Soc

Here's the coin image:

coinsarefun

I think it might be coming from the forum member on the website. They have a small amount that post on the ANA forum.

Zoins

@coinsarefun said:
I think it might be coming from the forum member on the website. They have a small amount that post on the ANA forum.

Well, it is posted by the official ANA Money Museum Twitter account, and the image seems to have an official ANA Money Museum accession number ("ANA# 2021.5.2"). I would take this to mean this is in the museum's collection now and not available for collecting any more.

https://twitter.com/MoneyMuseumCS/status/1474487546847637513?s=20

ZoidMeister

I'm guessing the "C" indicates "charter?"

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coinsarefun

New Ron Landis stuff is posted up for sale under vintage items.
https://www.landisstudios.net/vintage-stock-gmm?page=2

Zoins

@coinsarefun said:
New Ron Landis stuff is posted up for sale under vintage items.
https://www.landisstudios.net/vintage-stock-gmm?page=2

Great post but I missed this one already!

https://www.landisstudios.net/product-page/steam-press-token-silver-off-center

coinsarefun

I was super lucky and got it.

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@Zoins said:

@coinsarefun said:
New Ron Landis stuff is posted up for sale under vintage items.
https://www.landisstudios.net/vintage-stock-gmm?page=2

Great post but I missed this one already!

Zoins

Luckily I picked up this one recently

https://www.landisstudios.net/product-page/damaged-dies-steam-press-commemorative

LukeMarshall

@coinsarefun should appreciate this one, and thanks for Notifying us about the latest vintage drops over at Landis Studios.

One of Ron’s personal pocket pieces (Website Photo)

coinsarefun

A few new ones came in.

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And one to go with my gold.

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ZoidMeister

Just keeping this thread alive.

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As the thread title states - Ron Landis & Joe Rust . . . . . .

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Catbert

This thread has inspired me to buy my first coin from them. Reverse is a mule of 1796 starred reverse with the 1794 large cent from their vintage stock.

NumisOxide

@Zoins said:

@coinsarefun said:
New Ron Landis stuff is posted up for sale under vintage items.
https://www.landisstudios.net/vintage-stock-gmm?page=2

Great post but I missed this one already!

@Zoins said:
Luckily I picked up this one recently

https://www.landisstudios.net/product-page/damaged-dies-steam-press-commemorative

Super cool pickups!

@coinsarefun said:
I was super lucky and got it.

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@Zoins said:

@coinsarefun said:
New Ron Landis stuff is posted up for sale under vintage items.
https://www.landisstudios.net/vintage-stock-gmm?page=2

Great post but I missed this one already!

ZoidMeister

One can find Ron Landis / GMM mini-mint tokens commemorating ANA, FUN, or Numismatic Club shows all day, every day minted up in pewter / white metal.

That seemed to be the medal du jour when Ron & Joe traveled around making them. Off-metal strikes however seem to be as rare as "hens teeth."

I was exceedingly fortunate to have run across this pair on the bay last week. They finally arrived . . . . . .

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Presenting the 2002 ANA Summer Seminar tokens in Brass & Copper
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coinsarefun

Those are pretty cool @ZoidMeister !

ZoidMeister

Ron really knocked it out of the park with this tribute medal for his Father . . . . .

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coinsarefun

Nice image @ZoidMeister of a very cool piece

PS, glad you finally got it

ZoidMeister

Another elusive Ron Landis work finally made its way to me.

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coinsarefun

New stuff up on Landis studios…..some good stuff I may say!

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https://www.landisstudios.net/vintage-stock-gmm?page=2

ZoidMeister

@coinsarefun said:
New stuff up on Landis studios…..some good stuff I may say!

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https://www.landisstudios.net/vintage-stock-gmm?page=2

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coinsarefun

I like that copper hobo @ZoidMeister

LukeMarshall

I sprung for the Ides of March replica being offered this month at Landis Studios. Limited to 31 pieces (the days in March) five are struck in gold, and 26 in Silver. Same Material and weight as the original, so Obligatory copy stamp but you choose which side (I picked Obverse)

I also scooped two other “Ancients” but @ZoidMeister beat me to the ANA Hammer struck example... Nice pickup!

These are 👍

pcgscacgold

20% off for Ron's BD. Just got an email.

CDBPDX

@ZoidMeister said:
Another elusive Ron Landis work finally made its way to me.

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As I recall, Ron Landis only carved the fountain.

CDBPDX

I have an interesting obverse die variety for GMM's 1794 $1 replica. It appears that one of the hair ends is a snake head, like Medusa. Haven't seen that before. I believe I got this from Adam Hardcastle many years ago.

Are there any more out there?

coinsarefun

s> @CDBPDX said:

I have an interesting obverse die variety for GMM's 1794 $1 replica. It appears that one of the hair ends is a snake head, like Medusa. Haven't seen that before. I believe I got this from Adam Hardcastle many years ago.

Are there any more out there?

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I can’t really say as I do not own one but the die work does look like something belonging to Ron. He may have
needed to re-work the die and this was the result. Pretty neat either way as he does super awesome engravings.
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He’s in the middle of re-working a die from a previous striking of a medal he did years back and going to have it for sale
soon. It would be interesting to compare the original medal to the new one he strikes and see the differences.
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I’ve also noticed that even though these were marked copy there can be several different strikings because the reworked the dies for one reason or another. This makes them even more special in my opinion.

ZoidMeister

Didn't Verne Walrafen start to document GMM die varieties for several of Ron's series on his site?

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@coinsarefun

coinsarefun

@ZoidMeister said:
Didn't Verne Walrafen start to document GMM die varieties for several of Ron's series on his site?

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Yes he did. I’m still in the process of migrating all the infor to my site coinsarefun.com.
Just haven’t been up to it lately.

LukeMarshall

@CDBPDX said:
I have an interesting obverse die variety for GMM's 1794 $1 replica. It appears that one of the hair ends is a snake head, like Medusa. Haven't seen that before. I believe I got this from Adam Hardcastle many years ago.

Are there any more out there?

Here is my Reverse COPY stamped 1794 dollar
Definitely looks like a different Obverse Die... look at where the last hair curl falls in relation to the stars

I also have an obverse COPY stamped one, I need to image it and report back

Cool Variety @CDBPDX !

LukeMarshall

Actually I found Images of the Obverse COPY stamped $1 on Ron Landis Website...

Looks like both of mine are the same (non-snake head) die

CDBPDX

Here are some obverse die varieties for the 1794 $1:

coinsarefun

I posted this separate thread today but thought to post it here too.
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Here is what he wrote on Facebook......for those who do not belong .

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Here is a link to the medals

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Originally created in 1994, Ron re-engraved the die to create this 2022 medal depicting the place he calls home, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. The new version is higher relief and with sharper details than the 1994 medal. Available in .999 fine silver and copper. 35mm(1-3/8”) diameter, the thick medals have a nice weighty feel.

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ZoidMeister

I think hands down, this is the most beautiful die pair that Ron Landis has ever engraved.

It's his die trial reproduction of the Judd J12/P14 1792 US Quarter Pattern.

An amazing piece of US Numismatic History, and one of Ron's most faithful designs.
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For comparison, here is a link and screen shots of the actual 1792 Quarter Pattern Ron was emulating.

https://uspatterns.stores.yahoo.net/j12p14.html

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This latest acquisition is actually broad struck out of collar in the same manner as Judd J13/P15 on white metal (pewter) cobs. Only 4 of the original pewter patterns exist, two broad struck as seen below.
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I am totally excited to have secured this pair.

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LukeMarshall

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I posted this separate thread today but thought to post it here too.
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Here is what he wrote on Facebook......for those who do not belong .

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Here is a link to the medals

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Originally created in 1994, Ron re-engraved the die to create this 2022 medal depicting the place he calls home, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. The new version is higher relief and with sharper details than the 1994 medal. Available in .999 fine silver and copper. 35mm(1-3/8”) diameter, the thick medals have a nice weighty feel.

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Did anyone here snag the original 1994 he listed a few weeks ago? I would have but it was sold out but the time I checked...

Neat to compare the two...

LukeMarshall

@ZoidMeister said:
I think hands down, this is the most beautiful die pair that Ron Landis has ever engraved.

It's his die trial reproduction of the Judd J12/P14 1792 US Quarter Pattern.

An amazing piece of US Numismatic History, and one of Ron's most faithful designs.
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For comparison, here is a link and screen shots of the actual 1792 Quarter Pattern Ron was emulating.

https://uspatterns.stores.yahoo.net/j12p14.html

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This latest acquisition is actually broad struck out of collar in the same manner as Judd J13/P15 on white metal (pewter) cobs. Only 4 of the original pewter patterns exist, two broad struck as seen below.
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Nice pickup @ZoidMeister

I was wondering where the Copy stamp was until I read

I am totally excited to have secured this pair.

LukeMarshall

There is a two sided white metal still available on his site if anyone is interested...

https://www.landisstudios.net/product-page/1792-quarter-dollar

Not sure of the composition of "white metal" but it looks like this one has a bit of PVC or Verdigris and needs some attention

What do yall think?

ZoidMeister

The Importance of Provenance

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Remember about a year ago when I bought and first posted this pair of counterstamped Sacagawea Dollars?
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It was clear to me at the time who the creator of these pieces was, but trying to pin down the why and when proved elusive.

On the surface they were an interesting pair, but without the "backstory" they remain just that.
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One year later, the original seller reached out to me and said that he found some additional information on these two.

He told me the information offered the "Paul Harvey" rest of the story about these two pieces.

Well, the envelope arrived today. What it contained transformed this pair from "interesting" to "spectacular."

Here is what the envelope contained.
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Provenance is important.

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coinsarefun

This is so interesting and thank goodness the seller was able to find and send you the provenance envelopes.
This is so cool on so many levels.

coinsarefun

I received my silver and copper 2022 Eureka Springs Art Medal's today. They look awesome!

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CDBPDX

I just received a 1796 $1 replica from Landis Studios with obverse and reverse dies that I have not seen before. The wreath on the reverse is very different from the ones I have seen, the portrait has many features I've not seen before. Any info about this piece? Are there any others 'out there'?
Thanks! Cliff

coinsarefun

If anyone is interested Ron Landis will be taking down the art medal section soon. I recommend if anyone wants one
you need to act soon as many have very small mintages.
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https://www.landisstudios.net/art-medals?fbclid=IwAR1R_iIn0H8FmwAalXvF_lJXe74DeAXCMQZRqLBm7mlCe4vBr3D9KKh8BqU&page=3

He said
“ These figures only reflect the sales through the website and don't include over-the-counter sales at shows or sales made before we had the website. But it does give a general idea of rarity on these. The Deadhead commemoratives are much more plentiful than this chart would indicate since we do a decent wholesale business with them.‘

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ZoidMeister

The End of an Era . . . . . .

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LukeMarshall

Hmmm, thanks for sharing…

I have been wanting a winged liberty piece, so looks like I have about 24hrs to make up my mind…

pcgscacgold

It's been a year since the Gallery Mint Museum thread has been active. Recently they posted 1 gm gold pieces. Many of you may have received the email. I visited the site and saw that they are break apart into 1/4 gm pieces (like a pie). Has anyone ordered these or the other 1 gm piece? It looks like there is a discount depending on order size. An oz of them would be about $2230 or so as of today.

Mr Lindy

I saw that a few days ago. An interesting offer & art concept.

Lately, I have cashed out of some random gold to raise funds for items I added to my archive.
I found recently, gold like this gets bought locally for 80% spot, cash out the door.

@pcgscacgold said:
It's been a year since the Gallery Mint Museum thread has been active. Recently they posted 1 gm gold pieces. Many of you may have received the email. I visited the site and saw that they are break apart into 1/4 gm pieces (like a pie). Has anyone ordered these or the other 1 gm piece? It looks like there is a discount depending on order size. An oz of them would be about $2230 or so as of today.

LanceNewmanOCC

@CDBPDX said:

Renaissance festival token by Ron Landis. Dragon on one side, not sure about the rev design.

almost certainly, it is like one of the crosses on the other dragon coins: