Did Virgil Brand have a 1894-S Barber Dime?

Zoins

I've been trying to locate a 1894-S dime provenanced to Virgil Brand. So far, the only reference I've found is in the following Heritage lot listing.

Does anyone have more information in this particular coin or any other information on if Virgil Brand had one?

Heritage wrote:
A specimen offered to Jim Kelly by B.G. Johnson for $1385 on November 28, 1941. The invoice on the Newman Numismatic Portal is marked "Return 2/13/42." From the timing, this might be a Virgil Brand coin, but no definitive information has come to light.

Source: https://coins.ha.com/itm/proof-barber-dimes/1894-s-10c-branch-mint-pr66-pcgs-secure-cac/a/1231-5317.s

cameonut2011

It’s a good question.

cameonut2011

Until the Doug Winter article you posted, I always skimmed over his name and never gave him a lot of thought.

Zoins

@cameonut2011 said:
Until the Doug Winter article you posted, I always skimmed over his name and never gave him a lot of thought.

Wow, it's great Heritage was using a Doug Winter article. Heritage doesn't mention its from Doug but does mention the following.

Roster of 1894-S Barber Dimes
The following roster is expanded from earlier work by James Johnson, Walter Breen, William A. Burd, David Lawrence, Mark Borckardt, Kevin Flynn, Jeff Ambio, Q. David Bowers, Saul Teichman, Wayne Burt, and Doug Trentmann. Several Additional Appearances are listed, which represent unconfirmed citations, appearances of the nine coins in the primary roster that cannot be definitely linked to the other specimens, or additional specimens that are not currently traced.

Is Doug's name attributed to this content somewhere? It would be great to credit and reference him for this.

coinsarefun

It wouldn’t surprise me one bit. And for some reason I remember reading about the dime.
Virgil Brand is/was one of the great unknowns but if you dig deep enough you find there’s info
on him. I have a few coins and tokens that were owned by him but had to do some deep searching.

Zoins

@coinsarefun said:
It wouldn’t surprise me one bit. And for some reason I remember reading about the dime.
Virgil Brand is/was one of the great unknowns but if you dig deep enough you find there’s info
on him. I have a few coins and tokens that were owned by him but had to do some deep searching.

His collection is really amazing and is worth investigating. We really need to thank Bill Burd for having all his tokens attributed and slabbed by NGC!

I've been collecting his coins in this thread and the depth and breadth of his collection really is out of this world, including coins, patterns, errors, territorials and tokens.

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1046512/virgil-brand-the-most-underrated-coin-collector-of-all-time-or-the-king-of-coin-collectors#latest

Coinosaurus

See the Saul Teichman indexes to the Brand collection ledgers -- https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/archivedetail/513927?Year=2017&take=50.

Zoins

@Coinosaurus said:
See the Saul Teichman indexes to the Brand collection ledgers -- https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/archivedetail/513927?Year=2017&take=50.

Glad all that's scanned on the NNP! It may take some time to search well. A brief scan of the Highlights, Selected U.S. Rarities doc didn't turn up anything.