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CRO bonus Road Report: Coin Collection at Colonial Williamsburg

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  • coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,471 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A friend of my family was employed there for many years. I never took the opportunity to visit her there during her tenure.image

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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,772 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This article deserves more props. CCU worked hard on it.

  • farthingfarthing Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭
    I found the article quite interesting, and I don't even collect them! image
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  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,957 ✭✭✭
    OK, fine article is worthless with out pics. image

    Wish I would have been invited to see that vault. image
  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    Wow. This is a great report and I am not sure how I missed it (I am on the CRO site every day, but I take weekends off). I am impressed that someone who deals with coins every day also makes it a point to check out numismatic collections while on vacation. I can't imagine that someone like RYK stops by a fellow doctor's house during his vacation to read a mammogram or two. image
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  • IGWTIGWT Posts: 4,975
    I'm surprised this word didn't come to your mind: Deduction. image
  • Interesting report. I didn't know coins from the Netherlands circulated in the US.
  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,957 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Wow. This is a great report and I am not sure how I missed it (I am on the CRO site every day, but I take weekends off). I am impressed that someone who deals with coins every day also makes it a point to check out numismatic collections while on vacation. I can't imagine that someone like RYK stops by a fellow doctor's house during his vacation to read a mammogram or two. image >>



    Difference is that a dealer probably started out as a collector and by nature is still interested in the stuff as a hobby.
  • Great thread!

    Actually I have wanted to see this collection since meeting Erik (the Curator) at the ANA Seminar several years ago.

    And since I was there, and had the time, I wasn't going to miss it.



  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,504 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Good report. I really enjoyed my visit to Colonial Williamsburg a couple of months ago...and I only saw the collection on public display; I didn't get to see "the cool stuff hidden away in the top-secret vaults".

    It's pretty cool and a bit surprising to see the extensive variety of foreign coins that circulated in early America. image

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