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ANA Money Museum report

I saw several other members giving reports of coin shows they visited recently, so I thought I'd share with you my experience at the ANA Money Museum. I went there all the way back in June, but I really wanted to show some of the incredible coins I saw there.

Probably the most incredible room in the museum is going to be the Harry W Bass Jr collection. It mainly consists of extremely rare pattern coins from the 19th century, and a large variety of gold coins. I never cared too much about gold coins, so I'll focus on the pattern coins. I don't have very much knowledge on pattern coins either, so I'll let the photos I took do the talking.

1839 Capped Bust Half Dollar Rarity-8 (1 to 3 known)

1879 Morgan Quarter Dollar Rarity-7 (4 to 12 known)

1854 Flying Eagle Cent Rarity-6 (13 to 30 known)

1876 Liberty Double Eagle Rarity-8 (1 to 3 known)

1943 Bronze Cent and 1944 Steel Cent errors

Early Half Dollars

1794 Liberty Cap Large Cent

Early Large Cents

Mint State Flying Eagle Cent

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  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,113 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 5, 2022 7:58AM

    @CentSearcher said:
    Probably the most incredible room in the museum is going to be the Harry W Bass Jr collection. It mainly consists of extremely rare pattern coins from the 19th century, and a large variety of gold coins. I never cared too much about gold coins, so I'll focus on the pattern coins. I don't have very much knowledge on pattern coins either, so I'll let the photos I took do the talking.

    Amazing! Thanks for the report! Harry Bass has an amazing collection and it's nice the collection is still intact!

    I hope they do something like that for @Dwight_M's collection too!

  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,113 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @CentSearcher said:
    1943 Bronze Cent and 1944 Steel Cent errors

    Very interesting that these coins are slabbed. I wonder if it's done for authentication and/or insurance purposes?

  • WAYNEASWAYNEAS Posts: 6,681 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Great report.
    Thanks for sharing and the pictures are terrific.
    Wayne

    Kennedys are my quest...

  • ByersByers Posts: 1,568 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 5, 2022 12:50PM

    This 1943 ‘bronze’ Cent was purchased from Stacks Bowers Auction for $164,500.

    Then the PCGS insert was reworded…

    Then according to the ANA display, purchased for over $1 Million Dollars???

    mikebyers.com Dealer in Major Mint Errors, Die Trials & Patterns - Author of NLG Best World Coin Book World's Greatest Mint Errors - Publisher & Editor of minterrornews.com.
  • FlyingAlFlyingAl Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Excellent report, I’m going to add a few images from when I was there, I hope you don’t mind @CentSearcher. It’s a truly amazing collection. Here is a selection from around the museum the lighting is not optimal :smile: :
    Amazonian Double Eagle

    1913 Nickel

    Ex High Relief Saint

    Coin Photographer.

  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,113 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Byers said:

    This 1943 ‘bronze’ Cent was purchased from Stacks Bowers Auction for $164,500.

    Then the PCGS insert was reworded…

    Then according to the ANA display, purchased for over $1 Million Dollars???

    Wow! I want to sell my collection to the ANA!!!

  • LukeMarshallLukeMarshall Posts: 1,982 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very cool thanks for sharing!

    It's all about what the people want...

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,294 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice coin here today and many thanks to the people who took of this all these years....

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @CentSearcher.... Thanks for the great pictures and 'tour'.... Certainly an amazing collection. Cheers, RickO

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