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LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Will light the fire and pour a few beers.....the 4 Garrett catalogs just arrived. Have never been through them from beginning to end. imageimage
"My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.

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  • boiler78boiler78 Posts: 3,057 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That was a helluva series of sales and one epic collection. Just stack the catalogs on the toilet tank and your good to go.image
  • ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭
    Check out his Machin's Mills coins which are burried in catalog #4 lots 2227 - 2236. That is the most amazing and rarest group of coins that you will ever see in those grades.
    Coin Rarities Online
  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,162 ✭✭✭✭✭
    To properly get a feel for the whole collection, you also need the 1976 Stacks catalog. Oh, and Bowers' book about the collection.
    Early Dollar Set
  • SandhawkSandhawk Posts: 1,154 ✭✭✭
    That was a helluva series of sales and one epic collection. Just stack the catalogs on the toilet tank and your good to go

    And if you run out of TP, well, you can kill 2birds with one stone!!

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  • boiler78boiler78 Posts: 3,057 ✭✭✭✭✭
    TDN-- I agree. Bowers book "The history of United States coinage as illustrated by the Garrett collection" is a must read. Lakes your new 1512 is in the book on color plate #20. Looks mighty fine tooimage
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Boiler/TDN:

    Buying the 1512 is what got me interested. I've had the Bowers Garrett book for a few years but haven't read it cover to cover. I'm sure there will be a rainy weekend soon. My local dealer was having a side-walk sale a few years ago. Bought the Bowers/Garrett book for $5 and Bowers 2 volume silver dollar book for $10.imageimage
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,162 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My favorite Garrett coin [well, except for my 1848 $1] is the 1827 original quarter. Yum!!!!!!!
    Early Dollar Set
  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,625 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The ANR Frog Run catalog arrived today - some good weekend reading there as well. The writeup on the Strawberry Leaf is awesome - Pistareen has a scary command of early copper!!!
    Newman Numismatic Portal, www.NewmanPortal.org
  • PistareenPistareen Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭
    If anyone actually reads the entire Strawberry Leaf cent description I'll be flattered! Of course, I think it's silly to write up a once in a lifetime coin and not include everything you know about it at the moment it crosses your desk -- you owe that much to history and those collectors who will discover the catalogue in later decades.

    Boiler is right about the toliet-tank Garrett set. It's one of the all-time classics and is best enjoyed with QDB's textbook on US coins written using the collection. The appendices are my favorite part, including letters from all of the era's leading numismatists selling the Garretts everything from Proof sets to ancient Greek gold.

    Darksiders may also wish to pick up the 3 NFA sales of the Garrett world and ancient coins. Some US-related coins were included, like an EB counterstamped gold coin that was once in the Ten Eyck (1922) sale and a series of American medals.

    Little known Garrett facts: Robert Garrett was a member of the 1896 Olympic Team, and John Work Garrett got a tattoo while on a trip to the Philippines in his youth. Who says all coin collectors are geeks?
    John Kraljevich Americana
    Betts medals, colonial coins, US Mint medals, foreign coins found in early America, and other numismatic Americana
  • BigMooseBigMoose Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭
    Lakes, check out the silver Nova Constellatio Patterns which are mind altering, and not one but two Birch Cents!
    TomT-1794

    Check out some of my 1794 Large Cents on www.coingallery.org
  • JrGMan2004JrGMan2004 Posts: 7,557 ✭
    Cool Notes Pistareen! image

    If anyone happens to have any auction catalogs they don't want, particularly older ones, I would be interested! image I enjoy looking at auction catalogs, and have a few, but I would enjoy seeing more... image I actually need to get the catalog from a (I think) Stack's sale from 1946. A Bust Half that I have was sold in that auction image
    -George
    42/92
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭✭
    As a unexpected bonus, in one of the catalogs there's a Coin World poster with 10 of Brashers coins. Moose, all the patterns are amazing, especially that J1512!

    Sure would like to turn back the clock on this one......at the time, I was a student living on student loans. Probably wouldn't have been able to buy much....image
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
  • morgannut2morgannut2 Posts: 4,293 ✭
    I just got the ANR cateloge and was very impressed. I actually read the Strawberry writeup twice. There's a knockout Jeff. 1938-D in MS-68* that I liked untill I saw a starting bid of $3,500!! What is interesting is the high quality of materal offered overall. In fact I wish they'd offer a few Fair2 1792 1/2 dismes or something I could actually afford! I did have a problem with bring up about 1/4 of the lots getting an image overload message I've never had before.
    morgannut2

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