question on hoards

mbbiker

i was at a coin shop today and saw slabs that didn't have grades on them all they said were Continental hoard, and another one he had was a Casino hoard. This was the only words on the slab, no grade, no company just hoard names. Are these famous hoards? if so what are the coins worth?

LucyBop

Not sure, but if you ever come across some holdered Frankies that say "The HepKitty Hoard" You better jump on these GEMS!

MrKelso

HepKitty Hoard, I believe that has a nice ring to it. I can just hear the guy with the fat face on shopathometv.com hawking the hepkitty hoard franklin half dollars on stretch pay for 2 payments of $4500.00
And folks when there gone there gone.

CLASSICS

there was a massive silver dollar hoard, much larger than the redfeild hoard, which came from the continental bank out of chicago. it was a while ago, all where sold thru auctions, coinworld and promotions.

Catch22

There are many famous hoards in the history of coinage. Sometimes their discovery adversely effects value and sometimes, surprisingly not. Several hoards have even been discovered outside the United States. Still yet, there are often rumours of existing hoards not yet confirmed. One of the more interesting rumours is that their are numerous rare coins behind the keystone at the San Francisco Mint. Perhaps the Denver Mint as well. If memory serves me correctly, I believe a substantial hoard was discovered at the New Orleans Mint.

Many of these hoards are relatively small in number, but consist of very rare issues. Philidelphia Mint Seated Dimes of the mid 60's have been discovered in hoards, most grading Mint State and making these coins somewhat easier to obtain in higher grades while the circulated grades remain more difficult to obtain. This is just one example and there will no doubt be more hoards found periodically.

Catch22

By the way, there are some great books out there that will enhance your coin collecting enjoyment much more than the aquisition of a comparatively priced coin. Aside from the criminality of the late Walter Breen, his book is still a great primer on the history of American coinage and a brief look at the more interesting happenings of the mint during the time of each series inception. Q. David Bowers also has written some of the more interesting historical accounts of American coinage and is always a good read. Just something to consider while we spend more time indoors during the winter months.

Conder101

A yearor two ago a company put together a bunch of sets of "Coins from the great hoards" It consisted of five morgan dollars in the 1 1/2 X 3 inch Capital Plastics snap together holders with white inserts. Each insert was embossed with theame of the hoard the dollar came from. The hoards were the GSA hoard, The Redfield Hoard, the Continential bank hoard, The Casino hoard (That would be more commonly known as the Binion hoard but someone has that name trademarked.) and I can't remember the name of the fifth one. These five slabs were sold in a display box for your typical inflated price. I saw a set of these without the box at the Indian State show back in November. I was interested in picking one up as an example and possibly for the Miscellaneous section of the book but the dealer would only sell them as a set and I passed.

What are they worth? Well with no grades, no documentation to prove they really came from those hoards, and they are potentially in unsealed holders. . . I would be interested at $20 each at most. Less if the coins have noticible wear.