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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Let's try to figure out who picked four coin doctors in their response--see the latest Hot Topics.
  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,200 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    I know! I know! image
  • NicNic Posts: 3,411 ✭✭✭✭✭
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    I know! I know! image >>


    If you can confirm that neither Benjamin Franklin nor Bongo Bongo is a coin doctor, I think I know the answer. image
  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,836 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No heroes

    No mentors

    There are people who have made a significant contribution to the hobby- but that seems to me to be a different question

    Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.

  • SonorandesertratSonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    I know! I know! image >>


    If you can confirm that neither Benjamin Franklin nor Bongo Bongo is a coin doctor, I think I know the answer. image >>



    Veeery interesting! Based on one name, I am pretty sure I know too. Laura S. got a vitriolic, late-night call from another coin doctor (I can guess who, based on my interaction with him at the Summer Seminar)? image
    Member: EAC, NBS, C4, CWTS, ANA

    RMR: 'Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?'

    CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]
  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    linky

    Interesting choices for numismatic heroes, or is that mentors? image
  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
    who was the one Dr that outed himself? Please bring me into the loop. PM standing by................MJ
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    Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
  • bestclser1bestclser1 Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
    Just read the article,been working like a dog.Laura rocks!image
    Great coins are not cheap,and cheap coins are not great!
  • curlycurly Posts: 2,880


    << <i>who was the one Dr that outed himself? Please bring me into the loop. PM standing by................MJ >>



    What this brother said.
    Every man is a self made man.
  • ColonelJessupColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image

    I know! I know!image

    I also have a list of the 78, no make that 223, government officials who are Communists, sympathizers, fellow-travelers or otherwise members of an international conspiracy to destroy the capitalist system

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    Apologies to "Tail-Gunner Joe"image Sorta reminds me of the aphorism attributed to Mark Twain

    "History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes"
    "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Geo. Orwell
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,605 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I left out living legends. They don't need the ego boost and a few of you post here. image
  • jhdflajhdfla Posts: 3,030 ✭✭✭
    Was speaking to one of my mentors today, and he asked me to post his list:


    Bob Rose- The guy would give you the shirt off his back (as long as there was no coin in the pocket image)

    Harvey Stack- For years of good advice

    Ed Hipps Sr.- For being on the bourse floor at 80!

    Edwin Shapiro- For being on the bourse floor at 87!!!

    George Huang- For having the patience of a Saint (being a partner with you-know-who)
  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,313 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Let's try to figure out who picked four coin doctors in their response--see the latest Hot Topics. >>



    Only 4? image
    Barbarous Relic No More, LSCC -GoldSeek--shadow stats--SafeHaven--321gold
  • SonorandesertratSonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    Only 4? image >>



    My, my ,my. The plot thickens.image
    Member: EAC, NBS, C4, CWTS, ANA

    RMR: 'Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?'

    CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]
  • ColonelJessupColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>...George Huang - For having the patience of a Saint... >>



    My allltime to-be-cherished Forum quote, perhaps from DaveEimage

    "George really runs the place. Laura means well"

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    "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Geo. Orwell
  • SonorandesertratSonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭
    CJ,
    You truly are the master of 'numisnark' (numismatic snide remark). Your posts usually bring a smile to my face, or at least a snicker. Carry on, sir!image
    Member: EAC, NBS, C4, CWTS, ANA

    RMR: 'Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?'

    CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]
  • jhdflajhdfla Posts: 3,030 ✭✭✭


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    Only 4? image >>



    Yes, the 1930's and 1940's CD's would have increased that number dramatically... image

    Add in from 1950 on, and well, you get the idea.

  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,313 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    Only 4? image >>



    Yes, the 1930's and 1940's CD's would have increased that number dramatically... image

    Add in from 1950 on, and well, you get the idea. >>




    Hmmm. I wasn't even considering anyone in the pre-1970 era. I might need to break out my abacus, or at least take off my shoes and socks. image
    Barbarous Relic No More, LSCC -GoldSeek--shadow stats--SafeHaven--321gold
  • ColonelJessupColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Disagree. No financial incentive during those years.
    "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Geo. Orwell
  • #1 My late grandfather
    #2 My late great-uncle
    3-4 (two individuals from CT)
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,419 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Disagree. No financial incentive during those years.

    In the early days, doctoring was less subtle and generally targeted rarer coins. Think of cyanided copper, burnished and/or tooled early type and pioneer gold, plugged and re-engraved whatever, etc. But you're right in the sense that there was not much of an incentive to hide a few hairlines on a proof type coin, etc.
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

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