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Let's list the top Numismatic stories of 2007!

pcgs69pcgs69 Posts: 4,335 ✭✭✭✭
With the end of the year coming, it'd be nice to have a "reference" of the top stories of the past year.

I'll name a few to begin:

1) CAC
2) Presidential Dollars begin
3) $30 million pattern collection sold

what else you got?

Comments

  • lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,408 ✭✭✭
    that ship was found that had booty from an early 1800's theft from the treasury proclaiming to hold thousands of pre 1814 us coins or something like that...another topper for the year is those 1933 double eagles that were submitted and confiscated ohh...
    didn't marty's chicken lay an egg...;-)
    everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see


  • ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,554 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Dwight Manley's gold bar that sat in his gargage until it was stolen and wound up for sale by Kagin.....
    "Vou invadir o Nordeste,
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    "Sou Mangueira......."
  • Gold prices, break a 29 year high!! US Mint, pulling all collectors gold, for repricing.
    SEE the BULL!! BUY the BULL!! BE the BULL!! Do your homework first. And, you will learn alot!!
  • IGWTIGWT Posts: 4,975
    There has to be room on the list for the trials and tribulations of the ANA that culminated in the ouster of many incumbants on the board.
  • TheRavenTheRaven Posts: 4,143 ✭✭✭✭
    2007 will be remembered for the Presidental Dollars starting.....

    Also the happening at the ANA.....
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  • coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,474 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Biddlesbank goes BOINK!!

    "Everything is on its way to somewhere. Everything." - George Malley, Phenomenon
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  • bidaskbidask Posts: 14,017 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Easily the numerous sales of some of the greatest rarities and collections out there.
    I manage money. I earn money. I save money .
    I give away money. I collect money.
    I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.




  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,441 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Dwight Manley's gold bar that sat in his gargage until it was stolen and wound up for sale by Kagin..... >>



    Or 18 of Barry Stuppler's Morgan dollar rolls out of 133 stolen from his office were recovered... and one arrest within 24 hours of the crime being committed image ... that's great police work, I don't care where you live !
    Yeah that gold bar was interesting news, too.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,342 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The entire board of directors of the ANA getting thrown out of office by the members in their last election and the Executive Director Cippoletti getting fired.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • Canada's 1 million Dollar coin?

    PCI is done.

    Littleton Founder dies.
  • holeinone1972holeinone1972 Posts: 5,348 ✭✭✭
    MadMarty gets denied the sale of a Accented hair kennedy, because he thought he would try and photograph it in the coin store before he bought it. image
    image
  • Ebay eliminates all Third World grading , from titles!!

    Prez dollar, edgelettering Errors!!
    SEE the BULL!! BUY the BULL!! BE the BULL!! Do your homework first. And, you will learn alot!!
  • RWBRWB Posts: 8,082
    My favorite is Brittany Spears’ founding the National Numismatic Research Foundation to fund original research into the field.

    “We are deeply committed to the intellectual advancement of our national culture. Our foundation, which is fully funded for the next five years, will be the cornerstone of this historic concept,” said Spears in her lilting British accent during a recent press conference. “We are also honored to announce the founding Board of Trustees shall include: Chief Justice John Roberts, Microsoft’s Bill Gates, Librarian of Congress James Hadley Billington, and distinguished members of the American Historical Association with whom I worked during my doctoral studies.”

    Spears, a deeply private individual well known for avoiding publicity and pubic display, much removed from her entertainment persona, had secretly been pursuing a doctorate in Colonial American History at Yale during and immediately following the birth of her two sons. She also revealed her acceptance, beginning with the 2011 academic term, of the endowed George W. Bush throne of excellence at Yale University.

    (Although, her “Children’s Welfare and Good Parenting Society” was certainly a bold move, too, as was the program to bring sex education to trailer parks – I think her sister was the guiding light behind that one…?)

  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,631 ✭✭✭✭✭
    RWB-

    We can always dream, right? Reminds me of that line from a Phil Vassar song, "She's got a PhD, and now she modeling for money". Equally fantastic.

    Anyway, my nomination for top stories-

    * Pistareen opens (somewhat) eponymous firm

    * ANS sells current facility

    * RWBs "Renaissance" series is completed

    * LSCC publishes 100th edition of the Gobrecht Journal image
  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    Making the top ten has to be when the ANA board went to dinner, broke bread, enjoyed a fine wine and meal, toasted numismatics, and then promptly canned their dinner guest, the ANA Director, immediately after the check was paid.
    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
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  • RWBRWB Posts: 8,082
    Pistareen opens ..... eponymous firm.

    I don't think you can put "eponymous" on an award plaque...?
  • BWRCBWRC Posts: 1,448 ✭✭✭


    1969-S DDO cherry picked from a BU roll of 69-S cents.
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,342 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Making the top ten has to be when the ANA board went to dinner, broke bread, enjoyed a fine wine and meal, toasted numismatics, and then promptly canned their dinner guest, the ANA Director, immediately after the check was paid. >>



    I had a similar post but included the fact that all the ANA governors were voted out of office which I consider to be more significant story. Without a new board of governors, Cippoletti probably would never have been canned. As far a the dinner goes, I wonder if they stuck him with the check?



    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • dorancoinsdorancoins Posts: 2,091 ✭✭✭
    Lets see.....

    1) Old regime in ANA booted by membership.

    2) Cippoleti gets booted by new ANA regime.

    3) Michael Doran actually getting more votes than rivals in ANA election.

    4) PCI going down the tubes thank in no part to "Flea-Bay" policies.

    5) Michael Doran passing up not one, but two Washington Dollars sans lettered edge as the seller was offering them to him for $25 each! image

    6) Coin Market hotter than a baked potato.

    7) Canadians come up with a gold coin so big that no one can really use it much less afford it (except those from Alberta, Texas, and Abu Dhabi).

    8) Currency market on fire (what else is new).

    9) Washington DC finally gets its quarter (complete with crooked politicians).

    10) Can't really think of anything else!

    That All!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,342 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I may have missed it, but did anyone mention the significant rise of precious metals during 2007?






    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • ArtistArtist Posts: 2,012 ✭✭✭
    Laura got bammed in 2007.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,342 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Laura got bammed in 2007. >>



    Among several others. image

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • Saintguru's upgrades...enough to make me cuss!
    Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
  • Aegis3Aegis3 Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭
    Final (numbered?) Ford sales.
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    Ed. S.

    (EJS)
  • BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭
    I decide to sell my collection.
  • GW Smoothies...............................image
  • i agree with brian ther on the 69 ddo. what a find. i have been searching for awhile now, nice to know not for nothing.

    i also like the rolls of rare date morgans brought to the vegas show, i.e. the 1893-s roll. how nice that musta looked.... alil greeneyed here.

    the "blackswan" discovery.

    the 1817/4 capped bust find, the ninth known. how nice.

    mint director moy's statments, " to spark a Neo-Renaissance for coin design and achieve a new level of desigh excellence." what a great ambition this man has, trying to bring back something we

    certainly lost somewhere. i would for one love to see the nickles origianl reverse design. on maybe a lady liberty nickle. the name jefferson acroos the top of the rev. in a banner. still giving credit to

    a great man and a great leader.

    the newly found 1787 fugio reverse diefound by stack's. very cool new colonial. makes me think, what else is still out there.




    i am sure i can go on about awsome stuff this year but no one would read it all so those i think i will remember for awhile.



    not to mention all the new exciting errors out there...



    adam

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