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A tantalizing taunt of our beloved Longacre

coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,471 ✭✭✭✭✭
The man hails from his rambling estate in the pastoral greenery of Connecticut. But I'll bet he has never fondled the Mitchelson collection, or even gazed longingly at it. image

"Everything is on its way to somewhere. Everything." - George Malley, Phenomenon
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  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,614 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That is some serious smack.

    For those who don't know, the Mitchelson is an institutional collection held by the Connecticut State Library which has important patterns and lots of other goodies. It was put together c. 1900 by a well-heeled collector.
  • coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,471 ✭✭✭✭✭
    In some New England circles, this would be considered a "shot across the bow". image

    "Everything is on its way to somewhere. Everything." - George Malley, Phenomenon
    http://www.americanlegacycoins.com

  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,614 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I wouldn't hold it against him. A lot of these institutional collections, they don't have the inventory on the Internet, so you have to personally visit just to find out what is there, then call for the items (which are possibly held in offsite storage), then have an irritated curator stare at you while you check out the coin to make sure you don't steal it (unfortunately they have good reasons for acting that way). After that if you want an image of the thing it will cost you in excess of $100 and you will wait for the images.

    This is not how Longacre looks at coins.

    He is used to QDB coming out with white gloves and a velvet tray and regaling him with stories of the coin trade while Longacre freely looks at whatever he wants, and pulls out a few of his own coins to remind himself how much better his coins are than the ones he is looking at. QDB fetches all the uncatalogued auction consignments for Longacre's perusal while Longacre's personal secretary is giving directions to HRH about which numbers to put on his coins.

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