Coin Pics Added - A Very High Score on the "Coolness Scale" - Original Redfield Collection
FatMan
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Back from the FUN show. Had a great time and the show was very upbeat, as were the asking prices. Lot's of show reports so I will spare you from mine. I enjoyed meeting all the forum members. Too many to recognize all of them. Would also like to publicly thank PCGS for their Registry Set Luncheon. Very good food, open bar, and very entertaining.
I am into cool stuff and this pickup rates real high on my coolness scale.
A huge thank you to forum member Dahlonega who knows what I like and keeps feeding me more fun stuff than a collector should be able to have. I appologize for the pictures. My tripod and copy stand are are work so I had to take these free (shaky) hand.
It is a seven coin set holdered by paramount as MS65 in a Mohagany Box. But most of these typically grade 63-64. This set is no different but with a single exception. The 1890-S is a very PQ65. I took them to the ANACS table and had them take a look and Randy Campbell took a double take on the 90-S and even gave it to other grader to see. I don't know the other's name but he originally said maybe 66 but Randy prefered to say 65+. Both agreed that it was very unusual for a Redfield to be so nice. The others were all 63 to 64 as expected.
The set is as it was purchased in 1977 with the original invoice and Certificate of Authenticity. Interesting that on the COA Paramount guaranteed the grade at a minimum MS65.
I have removed the owners name from the image as it was suggested he may still be living and at the same address.
Enjoy!
I am into cool stuff and this pickup rates real high on my coolness scale.
A huge thank you to forum member Dahlonega who knows what I like and keeps feeding me more fun stuff than a collector should be able to have. I appologize for the pictures. My tripod and copy stand are are work so I had to take these free (shaky) hand.It is a seven coin set holdered by paramount as MS65 in a Mohagany Box. But most of these typically grade 63-64. This set is no different but with a single exception. The 1890-S is a very PQ65. I took them to the ANACS table and had them take a look and Randy Campbell took a double take on the 90-S and even gave it to other grader to see. I don't know the other's name but he originally said maybe 66 but Randy prefered to say 65+. Both agreed that it was very unusual for a Redfield to be so nice. The others were all 63 to 64 as expected.
The set is as it was purchased in 1977 with the original invoice and Certificate of Authenticity. Interesting that on the COA Paramount guaranteed the grade at a minimum MS65.
I have removed the owners name from the image as it was suggested he may still be living and at the same address.Enjoy!
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I would be willing to bet it cost a tad more than 179.00!
when asking about some of those at the show i saw
i asked ` so what are these `redfield morgans, where,d they come from.
was told this mr redfield cat was a big time collector/hoarder and had built a shoot
to his basement where he,d just buy bags of morgans and drop them down his
little home-made shoot and that was it. think he said it was like $100,000 in face
in morgans and the list of how many bags of what dates were there.
you,d freak if you saw that list of date/mm bags from that hoard.
how,d you like to have that one bag of 1885 CCs.
<< <i>that is awesome. I would be willing to bet it cost a tad more than 179.00!
I offered double invoice but my generous offer was declined.
As an aside, Tassa took me over to a dealer she knows who deals in Redfields. He told me he would give me $400 for the box. I must have had a look on my face of shock, so he quickly replied that the offer was for the wood box only, not the coins. Now that brought a smile to my face but as it is not for sale I politely declined.
Neat find.
Yes, a googleplex is a real number. look it up.
Great Buy!
TBT
Coolness Scale pinned!
Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.
Congrats!
The Ludlow Brilliant Collection (1938-64)
Oh, Fatman, I heard you, Tassa and Marty had a wild time Friday nite
42/92
Herb
Nice score!!!
<< <i>was told this mr redfield cat was a big time collector/hoarder and had built a shoot
to his basement where he,d just buy bags of morgans and drop them down his
little home-made shoot and that was it. think he said it was like $100,000 in face
in morgans and the list of how many bags of what dates were there.
you,d freak if you saw that list of date/mm bags from that hoard.
>>
Laverne Redfield was an odd fellow, something of a recluse who had made his fortune in oil and real estate. He was a hoarder who liked hard assets and he liked silver dollars. When the local banks would get a bag or bags of dollars in they would contact him and he would drive into town and pick them up. He would take them home and toss them down the coal chute into the celler. At the time of his death he had over 400,000 silver dollars in his stash. It would have been more but he had had a burglery a year or so before and they had gottten away with 100 bags or so.
As far as a listing of what was actually in the hoard, that has never been publicly released by A-Mark, the company that helped with the inventorying of the hoard. (It would have been better if they had let A-Mark do the inventory rather than just helping. The other people were not numismatists and improperly handled many of the coins. One case in particular: there was at least a mint bag of 1895-S dollars in the hoard. These were run through a mechanical counting machine that left scratches and wheel marks on many of the coins.)
Inoder to dispose of the coins for the estate, the coins were auctioned off enmass in the probate court. There were at last three firms bidding on the coins, A-Mark, Bowers & Ruddy, and at least one other firm. Only A-Mark had a complete inventory of the coins, the other only had a general listing and the total number of coins. A-Mark won the bidding, of course, for 7.3 million dollars. The most money paid for a coin collection up to that time.
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Here's the coin pics. Enjoy!
I know im being rude,but what did ya hafta pay ?
My comment on the coolness scale which only goes to 10,would be about 16.8 !
Kudos and Congrats !
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