I guess not everything from Chinese sellers is counterfeit….
Longacre
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I was reading the John Adams Comitia Americana book. In his survey of medal collections in existence, he refers to one collection as the “Junk Dealer’s Set”. He states,
“In 1983, a set of five Comitia Americana medals in silver turned up at a Brooklyn junk dealer, courtesy of a Chinese man who lived in the neighborhood and whose children reportedly played with the medals. The set, which had been housed in a box, made its way without the box to a bullion dealer, thence to Rossa & Tannebaum, well-known experts in tokens and Americana. The set was disbursed by them.”
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Does anyone have any more information on this sale? Does anyone know how much the junk dealer might have paid for the set, and how much the bullion dealer might have paid? Or is the only important thing not the potential rips, but rather the fact that these historic medals survived?
“In 1983, a set of five Comitia Americana medals in silver turned up at a Brooklyn junk dealer, courtesy of a Chinese man who lived in the neighborhood and whose children reportedly played with the medals. The set, which had been housed in a box, made its way without the box to a bullion dealer, thence to Rossa & Tannebaum, well-known experts in tokens and Americana. The set was disbursed by them.”
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Does anyone have any more information on this sale? Does anyone know how much the junk dealer might have paid for the set, and how much the bullion dealer might have paid? Or is the only important thing not the potential rips, but rather the fact that these historic medals survived?
Always took candy from strangers
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
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