Eliasberg coins, do you have any in your collection?

bennybravo

I was in my early 20's when the auction occured without much on funding, but remember getting and studying those catalogs wishing i could get even a lower tier coin from that collection at the time. Anyone have something from that collection that they'd like to show off? Would love to see!

bennybravo

See, there was this guy named Eliasberg who tried to get one example of....Never mind. Bad post nowadays. Carry on. :-)

mirabela

I owned this one for a while. I sold it a long time ago -- I needed to help my parents with something, and it didn't really match the rest of my collection anyway, being much better than the bulk of its company -- but it's one of the ones that I sometimes wish I had kept.

bennybravo

Wow! That's a great coin mirabela. It's cool that you got to own it for awhile!

RYK

I have had a few over the years, most notably the finest known 1857-D gold dollar.

I currently own two, one foreign and one:

bennybravo

Dang RYK, That's a beast for sure! Thanks for posting!

moursund

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This is my one and only. I sometimes wonder why Eliasberg had such a modest coin in his collection...

airplanenut

I may have had to go to the bathroom many times during a high school math class so I could get updates on the sale from @MrEureka, who ended up getting me this. I should take better photos at some point… these ones are pushing 20 years old.

It’s a type I wanted, and the pedigree was a nice little bonus.

Mark

I have a Hibernia, Harp Left, MS 60, that I purchased on the May 96 Eliasberg auction. It was raw when I bought it, so I had it slabbed when PCGS first started grading colonials. Unfortunately that was years before PCGS started taking pictures, so I do not have a picture of it.

oreville

i bought very few of the Eliasberg coins from his 1997 auction as I felt many of the more expensive coins were overgraded.

CommemDude

Not rare but a very pretty blue-green unmolested example of this commemorative, one of my favorites

MrEureka

@airplanenut said:
I may have had to go to the bathroom many times during a high school math class so I could get updates on the sale from @MrEureka, who ended up getting me this. I should take better photos at some point… these ones are pushing 20 years old.

It’s a type I wanted, and the pedigree was a nice little bonus.

I may have told this story here before, but it's worth repeating. There was a large quantity of common Australian sovereigns at the end of one of the Eliasberg sessions, including some large multiple coin lots. Completely uninteresting to almost everyone attending the sale, since we were all there to buy the more special coins. In fact, I had no plans on bidding on them, except I needed to get one for Jeremy. But as luck would have it, word got out that the buffet lunch was now ready outside the auction room, the room quickly emptied out right before the sovereigns, and I found myself the only floor bidder on the enire run of sovereigns. ANR bought the first dozen or so coins as souvenirs to give their employees, and then I got to buy the rest of them for not insignificantly less than melt. Yes, I got stuck at the end of the lunch line, but it was worth it!

Eldorado9

I've got two special one's

airplanenut

@MrEureka said:

@airplanenut said:
I may have had to go to the bathroom many times during a high school math class so I could get updates on the sale from @MrEureka, who ended up getting me this. I should take better photos at some point… these ones are pushing 20 years old.

It’s a type I wanted, and the pedigree was a nice little bonus.

I may have told this story here before, but it's worth repeating. There was a large quantity of common Australian sovereigns at the end of one of the Eliasberg sessions, including some large multiple coin lots. Completely uninteresting to almost everyone attending the sale, since we were all there to buy the more special coins. In fact, I had no plans on bidding on them, except I needed to get one for Jeremy. But as luck would have it, word got out that the buffet lunch was now ready outside the auction room, the room quickly emptied out right before the sovereigns, and I found myself the only floor bidder on the enire run of sovereigns. ANR bought the first dozen or so coins as souvenirs to give their employees, and then I got to buy the rest of them for not insignificantly less than melt. Yes, I got stuck at the end of the lunch line, but it was worth it!

You’re welcome!

retirednow

One of my patterns.

MrEureka

The only US coin...

Floridafacelifter

@MrEureka said:
The only US coin...

Whoa there now- that’s a keeper! NICE!!!

Floridafacelifter

Here’s a couple:
1836 50/00 PR66 CAC

1836/1336 PR64CAM

mtnman

I have a 1904 British Gold Sovereign in an NGC AU-53 holder I bought from a form member many years ago.

vulcanize

@mtnman said:
I have a 1904 British Gold Sovereign in an NGC AU-53 holder I bought from a form member many years ago.

Cool. Got any pics to share?
I don't have any with provenance but sure is a bucket list item

mtnman

Sorry I don’t have any pictures. I have Parkinson’s and couldn’t take a picture if my life depended on it. When I was diagnosed in 2017 I gave my tripod and macro lens away.

vulcanize

No worries.
Take care.

cardinal

SeattleSlammer

My one and only.

SeattleSlammer

@Floridafacelifter said:
Here’s a couple:
1836 50/00 PR66 CAC

1836/1336 PR64CAM

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