New York subway hoard-any info or link for actual numbers...

kevinstang

I have read and heard about this hoard, but never found a link to a site with actual number of specific key date coins found- usually just see mention of there were so many of this date or that- but is there a site with detail on the whole hoard? And when was it found and who put it together? etc..

kranky

Here's a story about it.

RickMilauskas

Thanks for the link Kranky.

Nice article!

kevinstang

Yes, that gives a little more info on the coins in the hoard than the artilces I had seen previously. Must have been fun going through those coins. I wonder how Littleton bought the coins- unsorted in bulk without knowing the dates/numbers?

Omega

Very cool. Thanks.

Halfsense

When the 1997 ANA convention was held in New York City, Littleton's President David M. Sundman donated a 1909-S V.D.B. cent from the Subway Hoard to be used in the "coin drop" stunt to promote the show. The Treasurer of the United States, Mary Ellen Withrow, used the coin as pocket change to purchase a pretzel from a Times Square street vendor. Steve Bobbitt, then ANA PR Director, and I organized the coin drop, happily working with Sundman and Withrow. It is one of my fond hobby memories!

-donn-

pocketpiececommems

I wonder if there were any circulated commemoratives in this hoard?

VicDaewoo

was there a real George Shaw and Morris Moscow? Other than Littleton webpages, theres not much info on them

clackamas

"Bowers has added another factor with his research, suggesting that he found only a couple of dealers back in 1916 who had working inventories of the 1916 quarter probably because the dealers of the time simply did not stock current issues. What an opportunity those dealers missed, but the New York Subway Hoard tends to support the idea that neither collectors nor dealers saved significant numbers of new and potentially valuable low-mintage dates like the 1916-D Mercury dime or 1916 Standing Liberty quarter."

I like that quote.

RWB

The 1916 SL quarters were released in January 1917 mixed with the 1917-dated version (1917-Type I). 1916 dimes and halves were released in 1916 but initial quantities were widely distributed because of the novelty of the new design. 500 1916-P Winged Liberty dimes were distributed within the Treasury department to employees on instructions from Sec McAdoo.

intocoins

Here's the numbers on the Barber Halves :

14 -1892-O
6 - 1893-S
17 - 1896- S
16 - 1897 - O
10 - 1897 - S
29 - 1913
25 - 1914
36 - 1915

Info from March 2007 Coins magazine.