i've had the pleasure of seeing a good number of that "Busty Roll" up at the Michigan Show last year. they were all nice original coins. i was sure pulling for you to get the last coin so the roll'd be complete!!! with your thread opener, it ocurred to me that your single-minded obsession with Bust Dollars has resulted in a rather unique way to build a collection-----start at a lower grade, your G-VG, and move progressively up to the current XF grade. over the course of time it should result in some real classy coins.
i should probably start planning for the Thanksgiving Day Michigan State Show. more show-and-tell.............and chocolate!!!!!
I’m glad you started the thread out with “my Gramps made me do it”. I’m 62 now and my Gramps also made me do it. I started out helping my Grandpa search coins when I was 7 or 8. He would go to the bank and buy rolls of every denomination from pennies to dollars, and we would spend the whole weekend searching though them. He had kind of an ulterior motive in having me help him. My Grandmother would complain about all the money he had tied up in coins unless I was there helping him. When I was there she would not say a word, and would bake cookies, pies, fresh bread, and generally spoil me rotten. In fact he even talked her into going the bank to pick up more coins once in a while. He thought that was great and got a big kick out of it.
Back then (1949 or 1950) you could find Indian head pennies, buffalo nickels, barber coins, and sometimes even liberty seated coins. We didn’t bother with modern coins unless it was real shinny or a rare date. I can still remember that my Grandmother did not want me looking at type 1 standing liberty quarters. She thought they were obscene and young boys should not see that kind of sight. It took me several years before I knew what she was talking about.
Grandpa kept his collection in rolls by type and denomination. He stored the rolls in wooden ammunition boxes, and when he died in 1964 I inherited 28 wooden boxes of rolled coins. He also had mostly complete sets of Indian head pennies, buffalo nickels, mercury dimes, SL quarters, Liberty walking halves, Trade dollars, and Morgan and peace dollars.
The entire collection – except the most valuable – was stolen. There was just too much to put into a safe deposit box so I kept it at home. I guess word got around and the wrong people found out. Four men wearing masks and carrying guns broke into my house in August 1983. They tied up and gagged my wife, and me, threatened my kids, and loaded the whole collection on a truck. The only thing left were a few rolls of SLQ’s that fell to the ground when the bottom of one of the cases broke and the robbers didn’t pick all of them up. The police arrested one man, but had to let him go for lack of evidence. No one else was ever charged, and none of the collection was ever recovered
Needless to say I quit collecting after that for almost twenty years, and only started back in about 1999.
Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my hard drive?
Congrats on 1000 posts. At the rate I'm going, I won't be there until 2015 or so, but I've learned more here 8 months of lurking and posting than I did in my first eight years of collecting.
Might as well thrown my name in the hat, too. It'll probably be my only chance to add any bust dollar to my collection, at least until I make associate professor in 15 or so years.
A big tip o' the hat to Brian for a very generous giveaway!
New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.
Cheryl........."She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot." - Mark Twain
I recieved the coin today and am thrilled with it. It's an 1800 and is not a beat up coin as described, it's a well worn but problem free. I have never owned a Bust Dollar before and want to thank numobri for such a generous giveaway.
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i've had the pleasure of seeing a good number of that "Busty Roll" up at the Michigan Show last year. they were all nice original coins. i was sure pulling for you to get the last coin so the roll'd be complete!!! with your thread opener, it ocurred to me that your single-minded obsession with Bust Dollars has resulted in a rather unique way to build a collection-----start at a lower grade, your G-VG, and move progressively up to the current XF grade. over the course of time it should result in some real classy coins.
i should probably start planning for the Thanksgiving Day Michigan State Show. more show-and-tell.............and chocolate!!!!!
al h.
Back then (1949 or 1950) you could find Indian head pennies, buffalo nickels, barber coins, and sometimes even liberty seated coins. We didn’t bother with modern coins unless it was real shinny or a rare date. I can still remember that my Grandmother did not want me looking at type 1 standing liberty quarters. She thought they were obscene and young boys should not see that kind of sight. It took me several years before I knew what she was talking about.
Grandpa kept his collection in rolls by type and denomination. He stored the rolls in wooden ammunition boxes, and when he died in 1964 I inherited 28 wooden boxes of rolled coins. He also had mostly complete sets of Indian head pennies, buffalo nickels, mercury dimes, SL quarters, Liberty walking halves, Trade dollars, and Morgan and peace dollars.
The entire collection – except the most valuable – was stolen. There was just too much to put into a safe deposit box so I kept it at home. I guess word got around and the wrong people found out. Four men wearing masks and carrying guns broke into my house in August 1983. They tied up and gagged my wife, and me, threatened my kids, and loaded the whole collection on a truck. The only thing left were a few rolls of SLQ’s that fell to the ground when the bottom of one of the cases broke and the robbers didn’t pick all of them up. The police arrested one man, but had to let him go for lack of evidence. No one else was ever charged, and none of the collection was ever recovered
Needless to say I quit collecting after that for almost twenty years, and only started back in about 1999.
Dr J
My omnicoin collection (or how my coin photography has progressed)
Might as well thrown my name in the hat, too. It'll probably be my only chance to add any bust dollar to my collection, at least until I make associate professor in 15 or so years.
thanks
congratulations on 1000!
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A big tip o' the hat to Brian for a very generous giveaway!
New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.
And Thank you Brian for such a great giveaway
Oh well, congrats to numobri and Louis (#*&%*#).
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