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If you could ask any living person only one numismatic question, what would it be?

MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,252 ✭✭✭✭✭
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If you could ask any living person only one numismatic question and be guaranteed to get a truthful answer, what would it be?

Be careful not to waste your one question on someone that doesn't know the answer. "I don't know" can be a truthful answer.

Andy Lustig

Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

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  • magikbillymagikbilly Posts: 6,780 ✭
    Hmmmmm. image

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  • SethChandlerSethChandler Posts: 1,705 ✭✭✭✭
    Mr. John Ford......Did you REALLY do it?
    Collecting since 1976.
  • kiddkidd Posts: 230
    I was going to say the host of coin vaultand how does he sleep at night, but i guess the show is on at night so that answers that question.....image
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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,380 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I refuse to ask the question as my PCGS grades may depend on it!imageimage
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  • coachleonardcoachleonard Posts: 995 ✭
    Assuming i could find the person who knows, i would ask them the identity of my most mysterious coin: a copper with "COLON" struck on the face of it in crude letters
  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,625 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'd try to find the person who was dumb enough to counterstamp a nice 1872-CC quarter, and ask them why they did it image
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  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,625 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Mr. John Ford......Did you REALLY do it? >>



    For anyone who isn't familiar with this, see the Bowers Clifford catalog March 1982, lots 26-50. It's worth reading.
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  • MurphyMurphy Posts: 903 ✭
    Hey Mr. CoinVault guy(HSN), how much did ya pay for them Morgans?
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  • TommyTypeTommyType Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭✭✭
    To the person who owns the 1933 double eagle: "Can I have that?"
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  • DabigkahunaDabigkahuna Posts: 3,419


    To: Ronnie Biggs

    Where is all the loot??? imageimage



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  • relayerrelayer Posts: 10,570 ✭

    Do you have change for a dollar?
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  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    Why?

    Cameron Kiefer
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,963 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What does the acronym “ABER” mean on the satirical (large base medal) Bryan dollars? I have been looking for an answer to this question for years, and no one can tell me.

    The other acronym that is often seen is “NIT.” That one means “Not In Trust.”


    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • joeyukjoeyuk Posts: 3,282
    MrEureka , How do you come up with these thought provoking questions?
  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    For Q. David Bowers-- are there any great rarities that you have not seen, held, or sold?
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  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    How much?
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  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,650 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would ask the Philadelphia Mint employee who has been on the lam for the last four years about the production of the Sacagawea / State Quarter mules, what other interesting things he made, how he got them out of the building, and who his fences were. In other words, I'd like to be a Federal prosecutor for a day. image


    Sean Reynolds
    Incomplete planchets wanted, especially Lincoln Cents & type coins.

    "Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor
  • FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Living person...Do you really like Dead Presidents ?

    Deceased person....You spent that dime on Ice Cream ?

    Ken
  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,162 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would ask J. Browning's attorney what the real provenance was...

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  • PhillyJoePhillyJoe Posts: 2,700 ✭✭✭✭
    Mr. Michael H. Sura
    Superintendent
    Philadelphia Mint
    Philadelphia, Pa. 19106

    Dear Mr. Sura,

    How many Accented Hair Kennedy proofs did you make in 1964?

    Very truly yours,
    PhillyJoe




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  • Rob790Rob790 Posts: 547 ✭
    I'd like to talk to someone who helped build the "Granite Lady", and I would ask - "Now where exactly is that cornerstone and how do I get to it??"
  • EagleEyeEagleEye Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭✭✭
    To Coachleonard:

    The copper with COLON stamped on it is probably from the Colon Leper colony.
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  • SniperFireSniperFire Posts: 57
    Leprosy of the Colon...hmmm...I had that the other night after eating Taco Bell. image

  • DocMortarDocMortar Posts: 218
    I would ask Gus Grissoms wife if she still had any of those dimes her husband took into space and if she would sell me one?
  • longnine009longnine009 Posts: 53
    How come an MS70 doesn't improve to MS71 when it goes up in value?

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  • ldhairldhair Posts: 7,232 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Frederick Eckfeldt (mint employee 1857)---Did you really do it?image
    Larry

  • DeadhorseDeadhorse Posts: 3,720 ✭
    To the director of the Denver Mint in 1964:

    Where are those 1964 Peace Dollars and how many of them escaped melting?
    "Lenin is certainly right. There is no subtler or more severe means of overturning the existing basis of society(destroy capitalism) than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
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  • lloydmincylloydmincy Posts: 1,861 ✭
    I want the GHOST of J. B. Harmstead to tell me exactly what he did in 1870. That general of a question should lead me to what he coined, and where the cornerstone and its contents are!!!
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  • coinguy89coinguy89 Posts: 2,151


    << <i>For Q. David Bowers-- are there any great rarities that you have not seen, held, or sold? >>



    Recently talking to him he mentioned, there are thousands of R-9 to R-10 Civil War tokens he has not seen, held, or sold.image
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  • JrGMan2004JrGMan2004 Posts: 7,557 ✭
    Not really a one numismatic question thing... but a deceased person I would love to have been able to know, talk to, learn from, etc. etc. would be Russ Logan... living... John McCloskey...
    -George
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  • tsacchtsacch Posts: 2,929 ✭✭✭
    Where did you hide the jar of gold coins?
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  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭


    << <i>Mr. John Ford......Did you REALLY do it? >>


    Seth, the answer to your question is . . .Yes. Of course you didn't specify what "it" was, so as long as he really did something, Yes is a correct and honest answer. You have now used up your one and only question.
  • TerrapinWillTerrapinWill Posts: 848
    I would ask whoever made the decision to make a 1921 Morgan Dollar...Why?
  • dthigpendthigpen Posts: 3,932 ✭✭


    << <i>I would ask whoever made the decision to make a 1921 Morgan Dollar...Why? >>



    No need to ask anyone this, it's explained in many books and periodicals =)
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  • saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭
    OK..here....

    If you could ask any living person only one numismatic question, what would it be? image
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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would ask Saintguru:

    "Would you adopt me?"
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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    I'd ask Sainguru:

    Would just give me your coins instead of adopting me, because I don't want to have to live with you?
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    Please excuse my stalkers. I get this all day long in PM's and I have reported them to the proper authorities. This is what happens in a liberal environment with sexual predators.image
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  • eyoung429eyoung429 Posts: 6,374 ✭
    Can I borrow that 1913 nickel?
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