2021 A Year In Review - From John at CRO

Inspired70

Always a great read and sharing for others to enjoy. Cheers!

https://www.coinraritiesonline.com/coin-commentary/

ricko

Thanks for the link... Interesting tidbits....Cheers, RickO

CoinJunkie

Great account from a great dealer! Thanks for posting the link.

Crusty

John is one of my favorite dealers and always my first stop at the Long Beach show. I remember that 1861 $… I’m glad a good buddy was able to snag it for his set.

golden

Always love his write ups.

Justacommeman

Great dealer and great friend.

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Pnies20

Nice guy. Very personable. If you ask nicely he’ll give you a hat too.

Desert Moon

JA has the eye for great coins, always enjoy what he writes although this time, I have to disagree with him for 'Coolest Coin Handled'. I'd say it was one of these two below.

LanceNewmanOCC

me posting these images is in NO way intended to discourage reading of that report. that was a good and fun read.

just sharing larger images from that report as the coins are worthy of it.

in order of appearance in the report

1785 (or 6) hard to tell from that image and i'm not familiar enough to know just by looking and that 8 digit number in the cro url does NOT translate to the cert number unfortunately.

1861 below

1836 below

1820 below

1803/2 $5 - old anacs holder

1854 T2 $1 doily g-cac

1793 1c chain - below - boom (i see why this miss this one)

RYK

I contributed to the CRO success of 2021, including my purchase of three dogs in OGHs, but I was equally as excited to add these gorgeous medals for my "European cathedrals that I have visited" collection:

Winchester Cathedral

Milan Cathedral (visited a second time last month, early November)

CoinRaritiesOnline

@RYK said:

Milan Cathedral (visited a second time last month, early November)

Always one of my favorite pieces based on my own personal experience there which I wrote about on the site when describing one of them:

<<This one also holds a special place in your author's heart, as I visited back in the 1990s with my then boss who insisted we tour the catacombs beneath the cathedral for so long that we ran out of time to actually attend the business meeting which had been the entire purpose of our trip to Milan to begin with.  Aaaah yes, I sure do miss the corporate world.>>

CoinRaritiesOnline

@LanceNewmanOCC said:

1785 (or 6) hard to tell from that image and i'm not familiar enough to know just by looking and that 8 digit number in the cro url does NOT translate to the cert number unfortunately.

1786. Must have been regraded by the new owner.

RYK

@CoinRaritiesOnline said:

@RYK said:

Milan Cathedral (visited a second time last month, early November)

Always one of my favorite pieces based on my own personal experience there which I wrote about on the site when describing one of them:

<<This one also holds a special place in your author's heart, as I visited back in the 1990s with my then boss who insisted we tour the catacombs beneath the cathedral for so long that we ran out of time to actually attend the business meeting which had been the entire purpose of our trip to Milan to begin with.  Aaaah yes, I sure do miss the corporate world.>>

Don’t look now, but the PCGS price guide values the piece at $140,000! I think you left some money on the table with that transaction. 😉

Zoins

@RYK said:
I contributed to the CRO success of 2021, including my purchase of three dogs in OGHs, but I was equally as excited to add these gorgeous medals for my "European cathedrals that I have visited" collection:

Winchester Cathedral

Milan Cathedral (visited a second time last month, early November)

Very cool to see you collecting these. Visiting European cathedrals is amazing and it's great to be able to pair these with your visits.