I never heard of the 1882 Blind Man's Nickel pattern. Has anyone else?

Longacre

I never heard of the blind man's nickel pattern. Here is a link below. Does anyone know when the last one was auctioned and what the price was?


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IGWT

One sold at the Stack's auction of the Rothchild collection in Oct. 2003 for about $20K.

doughmaking

Very interesting, I wanna see the edge and the ridges, how high are they?

kranky

It's J-1697 in Judd if that helps anyone research.

Longacre

Kranky-- I need to check my Judd book tonight. I don't remember reading about it. It's very interesting. Maybe board member Julian owned one at one point. He is the pattern god (along with Rick Kay).

NumisOxide

Neat, I never heard of it either.

kranky

According to USPatterns.com, there are three known.

FredWeinberg

There was one in the 1,100 pc. Pattern
deal Numismatics, Ltd. purchased from
Abe Kossoff in 1974.

Any of the listings in the Judd book for
certain weights, errors, etc, that mention
"Numismatics, Ltd." were coins that I
researched at the time, and submitted
to Kossoff for, I think, the 6th or 7th Edition.

As an aside, we took the entire Pattern Deal
to Houston for a major coin show there; we
went to Harry Bass's hotel room, and he
had brought HIS entire Pattern Collection.

He went through our coins, with a mag. glass,
very carefully, one at a time; if our coin was
nicer than his, he bought it. If his was nicer,
he passed.....one of my more interesting
numismatic stories - took hours and hours!

Longacre

<< <i>There was one in the 1,100 pc. Pattern
deal Numismatics, Ltd. purchased from
Abe Kossoff in 1974.

Any of the listings in the Judd book for
certain weights, errors, etc, that mention
"Numismatics, Ltd." were coins that I
researched at the time, and submitted
to Kossoff for, I think, the 6th or 7th Edition.

As an aside, we took the entire Pattern Deal
to Houston for a major coin show there; we
went to Harry Bass's hotel room, and he
had brought HIS entire Pattern Collection.

He went through our coins, with a mag. glass,
very carefully, one at a time; if our coin was
nicer than his, he bought it. If his was nicer,
he passed.....one of my more interesting
numismatic stories - took hours and hours! >>




Fred-- great story. Do you remember the purchase price and how you got paid?

kranky

Re: Fred's story...wow - how many times have there been that many patterns in one place at one time.

FredWeinberg

I don't remember the prices from 1974 - I kept
the 2x2 flips, with Judd's notes on them, for
about 5 years, and then sold them to a dealer
back east......

As far as getting paid from Harry Bass, I'm pretty
sure it was a check, and not a wire, but all I know
for sure was that we weren't worried about his
payment form.......

I worked at Numismatics, Ltd., Bev. Hills, for 13.5
years, and was in charge of the Rare Coin Dept.
for about the last 10 years of that time frame,
after Fred Malone left the company.

That's the deal that had the Platinum Bust Half,
the complete 1876 Silver Pattern Dollar Set, and
TONS of neat, superb, and rare Patterns of all
Denominations and metals....