O/T and of completely no interest on the Light Side

MrEureka

LeeG

I Like It!!! Lee

airplanenut

Cool! I like it!

Pistareen

Funny. I've had every single one of those in hand in the last 4 days. In fact, one is on my desk right now!

I wonder if anyone can guess which one of those illustrated:

Was personally ordered destroyed by an emperor?
Was once was once owned by a French count?
Could break a toe if you dropped it?
Is on my desk right now?

Hey lightsiders: there are coins in the Eliasberg collection with estimates in the two figures. Anyone can play.

Coming soon to a mailbox and website near you ... contact ANR for more details.

dbldie55

<< <i>Hey lightsiders: there are coins in the Eliasberg collection with estimates in the two figures. Anyone can play. >>



How many digits are in each of the figures?

Pistareen

<< <i>How many digits are in each of the figures? >>



Just one.

Seriously, there are coins that are worth tens of thousands of dollars, but there are also some in the $50-150 range. My totally unscientific guess is that the median (i.e. half higher, half lower) lot value is about $1000.

There is a lot for a U.S. collector to get excited about in this collection: coins that were legal tender until 1857, patterns that were issued with the same thinking behind them as Stellas and the 1868 international patterns, pieces struck at the Philadelphia Mint on planchets that might otherwise have ended up as Saints, even pieces struck to commemorate marriages of American women (hint: see Albania), even things handled by some New Yorker named Brasher.

And anyone who owns a coin from Farouk just HAS to own a coin with his face on it!