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Does anyone have a picture of Izzy Switt?

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  • BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Google is your friend!

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    George Jefferson?

    P.S. Why is he still only a Colonel?
  • philographerphilographer Posts: 1,325 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here are a couple of pictures of his shop from a visit to Philadelphia a few weeks ago. They

    were closed so I could not get in to look around. It looked like a dusty old place through

    the window. Sorry about the grate...



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    He who knows he has enough is rich.

  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,644 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great image of the storefront. If only those walls could talk, the stories they would give up. I suspect the 1933s would just be the first chapter.
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  • lcoopielcoopie Posts: 8,873 ✭✭✭✭✭
    good place to try my metal detecting skills
    LCoopie = Les
  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭


    << <i>good place to try my metal detecting skills >>




    Yeah, like in the walls of that shop??? I'd love to do a "full-on" demolition inside that place! image
  • UTTM07UTTM07 Posts: 313 ✭✭


    << <i>Along these likes but crustier....image


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    Look! There he is at the Philadelphia mint cashier's desk exchanging for 1933 double eagles! Definitive proof they are legal!
  • COALPORTERCOALPORTER Posts: 2,900 ✭✭


    << <i>I know because he doesn't fit the way I have Izzy pictured in my mind., Al!

    Anymore questions? Pffffffffffffffffffffffttt! image >>



    Really, The only Izzy I know is a woman (short for Isabelle) and she could probably get into Playboy just
    by walking in the front door and they would "stop the press right now" ! image
  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 13,109 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Found this from Google Image search. Looks like he is holding a Mexican hat, so who knows if it is really him.

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  • s4nys4ny Posts: 1,573 ✭✭✭
    He did hat dances on the street with a Mariachi band. Passers by would throw money
    in the basket. Someone threw in some 1933 Double Eagles.
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,572 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It would be cool f his granddaughter would join the boards. We could get more than court dockets, summary judgements, continuations and appeals.
    In the court of public opinion, it's my belief he looked and acted much more like Cary Grant and went to bed with a super hero costume in the closet.
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,773 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>OK. I'm going to believe this is Izzy, even though I pictured him more like Danny DeVito. image

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    Yes, according to the book, Illegal Tend Gold, Greed, and the Mystery of the Lost 1933 Double Eagle by David Tripp, this is a picture of Izzy.

    Izzy was a little before my time as a young collector, but I met his type when I went to Philadelphia with my father. In those days he went to the city from southern Delaware to buy auto parts for his business. He would turn me loose in the city, and I would go to the various coin shops to add to my collection. Most of dealers treated me with respect; one even offered me a job; but a few them acted like junkyard dogs. If you went into their store, the reception was sometimes beyond frosty if you looked a kid with very little money to spend. Yes, I was a kid, but I did have some money to spend. From what I've read Izzy was in the junkyard dog category.
    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,572 ✭✭✭✭✭
    He looks more like W.C. Fields than Danny D or a junkyard dog type.
  • DoubleEagle59DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,377 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    "Gold is money, and nothing else" (JP Morgan, 1912)

    "“Those who sacrifice liberty for security/safety deserve neither.“(Benjamin Franklin)

    "I only golf on days that end in 'Y'" (DE59)

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