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Is Alan Hagar still alive?

WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭

Not looking to start a flame war. Just trying to find out if Mr. Hagar is still with us.

I was googling today and found that Accugrade® is now a registered trademark for Caterpillar earth moving equipment:
https://www.cat.com/en_ID/support/technology/earth-moving-solutions/accugrade-grade-control-system.html

Also, the asa-accugrade.com website is no longer functioning and appears to be parked and available for purchase.

Anyone have info?

We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
--Severian the Lame

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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,116 ✭✭✭✭✭

    So, that pile of dimes leaving the Philadelphia Mint and dumped out of a semi truck in a heap on a Walmart parking lot by thieves could have, literally, been Accugraded?

    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • braddickbraddick Posts: 23,965 ✭✭✭✭✭

    His eBay handle is/was gotjacollectibles.
    That might be a place to start.

    Another route is to PM MACGE1 a member here- who was/is a business partner and a friend of Alan.
    (MACGE1 hasn't checked in here since late 2020 so that may also be a dead end, so to speak.)

    peacockcoins

  • WQuarterFreddieWQuarterFreddie Posts: 2,666 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I assume this is the Alan Hager you are asking about. If so PM me and I will give you his contact information.



  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @WQuarterFreddie said:
    I assume this is the Alan Hager you are asking about. If so PM me and I will give you his contact information.

    Appreciate the response, @WQuarterFreddie . That's definitely Mr. Hagar. I hadn't heard of that service. Though it appears the macablege.com website also now appears to be deactivated.

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • WQuarterFreddieWQuarterFreddie Posts: 2,666 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Weiss said:

    @WQuarterFreddie said:
    I assume this is the Alan Hager you are asking about. If so PM me and I will give you his contact information.

    Appreciate the response, @WQuarterFreddie . That's definitely Mr. Hagar. I hadn't heard of that service. Though it appears the macablege.com website also now appears to be deactivated.

    I first met him back in 2019 after having an issue with an Ebay sale. We talked over the phone a few times and eventually met at the 2020 Whitman Coin show in Baltimore. He went all in on the W quarters and is a self proclaimed expert on them.😂🤣

    He puts a MAC sticker on the slabbed W quarters he deems "spotless".

    Again, I have his contact information if you want it.

  • erwindocerwindoc Posts: 5,079 ✭✭✭✭✭

    He banned me from his ebay auctions after I corrected him on a "top pop" coin he had listed that was incorrect. Maybe I came off too much of a smarty. Oh well!

  • alaura22alaura22 Posts: 3,177 ✭✭✭✭✭
  • Clackamas1Clackamas1 Posts: 938 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @erwindoc said:
    He banned me from his ebay auctions after I corrected him on a "top pop" coin he had listed that was incorrect. Maybe I came off too much of a smarty. Oh well!

    To hell with the facts /s

  • DoubleEagle59DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,307 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've got plenty of stories of his days when he would visit us in Canada at some major coin shows, but I don't want to get banned.

    "Gold is money, and nothing else" (JP Morgan, 1912)

    "“Those who sacrifice liberty for security/safety deserve neither.“(Benjamin Franklin)

    "I only golf on days that end in 'Y'" (DE59)
  • AZDAVYAZDAVY Posts: 117 ✭✭✭

    He was alive and kicking at the Phoenix Ana show in March. I also have many stories of working with him as a teenager but I also do not want to be banned 😀

  • DoubleEagle59DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,307 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Please 'like' this post if you too have a story and don't want to get banned.

    "Gold is money, and nothing else" (JP Morgan, 1912)

    "“Those who sacrifice liberty for security/safety deserve neither.“(Benjamin Franklin)

    "I only golf on days that end in 'Y'" (DE59)
  • fathomfathom Posts: 1,685 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't know, but if you want to feel old, Sammy Hagar is 76.

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