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Cool Double Dime Collection Addition
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It safely made the trip from Stacks! Woo hoo!
I just couldn't let this pass me by!
Auction Description:
Approximately 10 centimeters x 6 centimeters. An interesting and enticing item that would serve as a desirable addition to an advanced collection of twenty-cent pieces and/or Liberty Seated coinage. On the front of this otherwise plain white envelope is written in cursive script: 20 CENT PIECE, 1875 / ONE OF THE FIRST. / A.C. ECKFELDT / FROM W.E.D. JUNE 4. The back of the envelope has the numbers 192.27 and 144.96, as well as random scrawl near the lower right corner. Numismatic historians will recognize that the two individuals referred to on the front of the envelope are Chief Coiner Adam C. Eckfeldt and William Ewing Dubois, at one time or another curator of the Mint Cabinet and assayer. Minimal foxing to the envelope, although grading VG due to several old, sharp folds.
I just couldn't let this pass me by!
Auction Description:
Approximately 10 centimeters x 6 centimeters. An interesting and enticing item that would serve as a desirable addition to an advanced collection of twenty-cent pieces and/or Liberty Seated coinage. On the front of this otherwise plain white envelope is written in cursive script: 20 CENT PIECE, 1875 / ONE OF THE FIRST. / A.C. ECKFELDT / FROM W.E.D. JUNE 4. The back of the envelope has the numbers 192.27 and 144.96, as well as random scrawl near the lower right corner. Numismatic historians will recognize that the two individuals referred to on the front of the envelope are Chief Coiner Adam C. Eckfeldt and William Ewing Dubois, at one time or another curator of the Mint Cabinet and assayer. Minimal foxing to the envelope, although grading VG due to several old, sharp folds.
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Neat piece!
TD
Edited to add: Where, oh where, is our invaluable Mint Archive Researcher who could tell us what the markings on the reverse mean? Delivery batches?
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<< <i>I have the coin ... or at least that's my story!
"That's my story and I'm sticking to it"
From Du Bois to Eckfeldt to astrorat. Very cool!
<< <i>That old-fashion script adds a certain 'jenny-say-qua' to it. Very good! >>
Jenny say whut?
One wonders how it got separated from the coin yet still survived.
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Some generations may have been represented by multiple members of the family, including Theodore Ecfeldt who allegedly made 1804 dollars around 1858.
The recipient of this coin could have been a member of the family who collected coins but did not work at the Mint. I would have to research further.
The members of the family were certainly well known to the Directors of the Mint, and if one of them asked for an example of the new coinage the Director at the time would certainly be accomodating.
TD
It's too bad the coin got separted from it.
<< <i>There were four generations of Eckfeldts that worked at the Mint from 1796 to Dec. 31, 1929.
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Some generations may have been represented by multiple members of the family, including Theodore Ecfeldt who allegedly made 1804 dollars around 1858.
The recipient of this coin could have been a member of the family who collected coins but did not work at the Mint. I would have to research further.
The members of the family were certainly well known to the Directors of the Mint, and if one of them asked for an example of the new coinage the Director at the time would certainly be accomodating.
TD >>
Let us know what you find. This is becoming a very interesting thread.
<< <i>There were four generations of Eckfeldts that worked at the Mint from 1796 to Dec. 31, 1929.
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Some generations may have been represented by multiple members of the family, including Theodore Ecfeldt who allegedly made 1804 dollars around 1858.
The recipient of this coin could have been a member of the family who collected coins but did not work at the Mint. I would have to research further.
The members of the family were certainly well known to the Directors of the Mint, and if one of them asked for an example of the new coinage the Director at the time would certainly be accomodating.
TD >>
William E Dubois was not Directorof the Mint, he was the Assayer of the Mint at that time. A.C. Eckfeldt was certainly well known to Dubois, he was his brother-in-law.
I'd rather have this than an 1875-P 20 cent piece. I realize that makes me weird.
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You weren't already weird?
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This piece of paper thus likely came down through the A. C. Eckfeldt family.
Surprised Astrorat hasn't already looked up the deliveries of 20c pieces in 1875. The June 4 date possibly coincides with such a delivery.
At first I thought the odd numbers on the envelope were museum accession numbers. But I think the envelope came through the family so that is less likely.
Neat!