OWNERS: Felix Shlag winning design sets, Chime in!
meos1
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I got two sets and really like them. The art deco lettering is truely sweet. Is the series over now(Total = 1938)? Whats the trend on the bay of E? I know its not a US mint product but that might actually be good!
Best regards,
Dan Watson
Best regards,
Dan Watson
I am just throwing cheese to the rats chewing on the chains of my sanity!
First Place Winner of the 2005 Rampage design contest!
First Place Winner of the 2005 Rampage design contest!
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09/07/2006
Dan
First Place Winner of the 2005 Rampage design contest!
I like them, they look pretty cool. I'll just stash them away and forget about them for a few decades however.
They have seen some activity on eBay but all in all i think it was a frenzy that has come to an end. There were the occasional buyers, that in my opinion didn't recognize what they were actually bidding on, and bid up the pricing to very unrealisting levels. If memory serves me correctly one set went for between 4 and 5 hundred ? Another went for around $200. These were definately anomalies and probably represent the "feeding frenzy" from a few uneducated buyers thinking they were getting some kind of pattern series or something ?
There was definately some profit taking going on by those "in the know" but that's just business i guess. Nothing wrong with it as long as there's no defrauding going on.
All in all i'd say these are a beautifully crafted reproduction of a design that should have been put in place in the beginning.
Ken
If the US Mint has to revert to a Monticello reverse on the nickel I hope they use this one, which is the one Felix Schlag created in the first place.
I think I saw their last auction state that they were nearing the halfway
point as far as selling out, so there is plenty of supply at this point.
Darryl Crane still has a few more sets that he releases slowly on ebay...the production run is finished and no more than 1938 were made. What I cant stand and theres a few here on the board who did this, is they exploited Darryl by selling singles at 200+...luckily I caught quite a few prospective buyers and sent them to Darryl so they could get a full set for 80 bucks insted of a single for 200+
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