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Well, I won 6 gold slug medals from Heritage....... Pictures now included

I get to pick them up tomorrow

Those who show up for lunch at 12 noon

at PCGS table will get to see them.


Thanks to LasvegasTeddy, all pictures of medals

are now listed below.
There once was a place called
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    ScarsdaleCoinScarsdaleCoin Posts: 5,187 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congrats... yes the token / medal auction had several really good deals, we picked up a bunch of top pop pieces at bargain basement prices...go figure.... and yet some very common items went for 2-3 times what we would sell em for?
    Jon Lerner - Scarsdale Coin - www.CoinHelp.com
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    BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,957 ✭✭✭
    Links?

    Sounds pretty cool, wish I could be there. image
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    lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,408 ✭✭✭
    congrats bear,

    i take it jelly donuts are on you in such honor
    everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see


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    BearBear Posts: 18,954 ✭✭
    I do not know how to transfer

    pictures but the auction numbers

    are:

    29447

    29487

    29610

    29611

    29617

    29627

    Perhaps someone would be kind enough
    to trans the pictures.

    Heritage Auction 1100 Thursday Part three
    There once was a place called
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    BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wait wasn't it just 5... them medals must be like rabbits image
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
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    lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,408 ✭✭✭
    hey bear,
    what site do i snag those pix fer ya to post um?
    everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see


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    adamlaneusadamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭
    I cannot resist...
















    Six Gold Slugs!


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    BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I cannot resist...
















    Six Gold Slugs!


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    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
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    lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,408 ✭✭✭
    bear's slugs...incoming one by 1
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    everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see


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    robkoolrobkool Posts: 5,934 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Kool... Can't wait to see them.

    Are they real gold too ???
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    BearBear Posts: 18,954 ✭✭
    No most are gilt or gold plated. They are however a really

    neat sub section of So Called Dollars. With the new six, I now

    have twenty of these various slugs.
    There once was a place called
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    lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,408 ✭✭✭
    1---4---5...me likes alot there bear
    everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see


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    BearBear Posts: 18,954 ✭✭
    Yes I am very fond of #4
    It is rated as Very Rare
    and is in rather nice condition.

    Also, the price of $350 seemed
    to be a steal for this one.
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
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    jonathanbjonathanb Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Congrats... yes the token / medal auction had several really good deals, we picked up a bunch of top pop pieces at bargain basement prices...go figure.... and yet some very common items went for 2-3 times what we would sell em for? >>

    That was my impression also. Lots of stupid-high prices, but some bargains too. I expected to be totally shut out, and I ended up winning one lot after all. And I as underbidder on several lots that I didn't really want, but put in low bids "just in case".

    The US Mint medals in the first section were even weirder. That had items setting new price records by 2x or 4x, followed by others that sold for prices that haven't been that low in the last decade.

    Very weird.

    If anyone attending the auction has explanations for the high/low prices, I'd love to hear comments (or even theories).

    jonathan
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    Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭
    They're ALL very nice! Congrats Bear!
    "It's far easier to fight for principles, than to live up to them." Adlai Stevenson
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    Hello

    You picked up some nice ones

    All from my consignment .. still mad at Heritage for listing them at the end of the auction.

    But I'm happy that you got them .. they are nice .. I've collected them for about 20 years .. just love the shape, the size, the weight, the color and the history.

    take care .. tj
    "Authority on Exonumia" - DAD

    "many contacts among the Lumberjacks "

    NGC Registry AOEDAD sets:

    Set #1 Major Expositions
    Set #2 So-called Dollar Collections
    So-called $50 Slug Facsimiles
    Bashlow re-strikes


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    richardshipprichardshipp Posts: 5,647 ✭✭✭
    I like them too... Congrats Bear.
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    thebeavthebeav Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That's a fabulous grab. They're very cool.....
    Enjoy them !!
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    SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,478 ✭✭✭✭✭
    In some safe deposit box, very rarely visited, I have deposited several mementos from the 1915 San Francisco Pan Pacific Expo that my Great Great Grandmother purchased at the Expo. Have to look at them someday.
    In memory of my kitty Seryozha 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016 and Shadow 3.4.2015 - 16.4.21
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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very nice acquisitions Bear... Cheers, RickO
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    BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,957 ✭✭✭
    OK, one is copper so does that make 5 gold slugs? image
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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DIMEMAN ....Well, Thank you.... though I cannot measure up to icons like Bear, Russ and a few others....Cheers, RickO

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    ZoinsZoins Posts: 33,864 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow, those are great short URLs. I've been using the super long ones and will look to switch!

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    ashelandasheland Posts: 22,688 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Bear...

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    ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congrats and let me give you a bear hug! <3

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    coinsarefuncoinsarefun Posts: 21,664 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks again @yosclimber. I cant thank you enough :)
    I noticed that one the rare ones the prices have gone extremely higher.
    Now I need to decide whether to gulp and buy or hold on and continue searching.

    I remember bear had accumulated at least 20 of them. But does anyone know where they are now?
    Maybe he sold them to acquire his last coin collection?
    Or maybe they just have been sold off bit by bit.

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    WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 5, 2018 12:56PM

    Thomas Jankovsky, Reference Guide to Slugs and Facsimiles, published in 2008.

    Mr. Jankovsky has a website at:
    http://www.jankovsky.net/html/jankovsky_coins_0.html

    :)

    https://www.brianrxm.com
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    marcmoishmarcmoish Posts: 6,221 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Type2 said:
    I miss that good old bear.

    OMG, heart skipped few beats when I saw this one.
    Miss his eloquent calming wisdom.

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    BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,733 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I feel like having a jelly donut, in his honor of course.

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    PTVETTERPTVETTER Posts: 5,880 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sad to remember the passing on Bear and others that have left us.
    May they RIP
    Amen

    Pat Vetter,Mercury Dime registry set,1938 Proof set registry,Pat & BJ Coins:724-325-7211


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