Does anyone here own a Byron Reed coin?
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If you do, did you buy it at the October 1996 Spink sale or since then? And what do you own?
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Did the city sell some ?
As I recall in 1996 the City of Omaha decided it wanted to sell the coins to fund improvements to their museum. As I recall there was some outcry about this, so the city asked various auction houses to submit proposals for selling part of the coins. I know that Bowers and Merena was in the running but ultimately lost out. The city eventually decided to retain the patterns and sell others. I am unsure if the coins are currently on display or not.
I hasten to repeat that all of that above is from my memory, so what I say might have major errors.
the auction house i believe was Christie's.....and yes, to my knowledge the patterns are still on display (though i dont know first hand as i dont live in Omaha)
also, if i'm not mistaken, most of these coins will have a prior pedigree to Lorin Parmelee
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Used to be Unc with obverse scratches, now it would be someplace in the AU range.
It will probably be consigned to the upcoming FUN show in January, unless someone presents an offer in the near future.
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I have been priviledged to have the oportunity to go over the assesment of the collection that took place in 2001. According to it, the American Coin collection contains 139 colonial, 602 Federal Issue, 38 Commemorative, 333 Pattern, and 51 Territorial gold coins. That's not counting the 693 World coins, 1,402 pieces of Exonumia, 673 currency items and 2,850 books and documents.
I am also currently going through over 400 pages of news clippings, memo's, historical documents about the Reed collection dating back to when the collection was donated to the City in 1894. Fascinating reading. For example, there's a 1973 article from the Banknote Reporter that says, "On the eve of learning the election results, Grover C. Criswell, candidate for president, announded that he would be in favor of moving the ANA headquarters 'lock, stock and barrel' to Omaha, Nebraska 'IF', Criswell said, 'we could be assured of becoming curators in perpetuity of the famous, multi-milion dollar Byron Reed collection." That, of course, didn't happen but the "what if's" sure are hard to keep out of this Omaha boy's head.
<< <i>I have the 1805 B-1 quarter from that sale.
Used to be Unc with obverse scratches, now it would be someplace in the AU range.
It will probably be consigned to the upcoming FUN show in January, unless someone presents an offer in the near future. >>
Thanks!
I just thought it would be cool to find out if anyone here actually had one.
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It also was a treat to be back in Nebraska because the museum folks brought in Valentino's pizza for lunch one day. I had not consumed a slice of Valentino's since the late 1960's after I attended a Nebraska-Kansas football game in Lincoln (which, if I recall, the Cornhuskers "narrowly squeaked by" the Jayhawks by 64 to 14 or some other humiliating score).
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Reading about the other lots, it seems that the "deeply tone" coins were quite the norm in the proof quarters that were sold.
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It was sold in the first Dan Holmes sale, and I bought it via private treaty.
<< <i>I own this 1794 large cent. It is listed in Breen's large cent book as an "AU-55 with a small planchet clip" ... Spink America #8450, 10/1996, ... Dan Holmes Collection. It is in an MS-62, Brown holder. I grade it AU-58.
It was sold in the first Dan Holmes sale, and I bought it via private treaty. >>
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