Ken Potter?

joeykoins

Has anyone seen/heard of Ken recently? I know he hasn't been well as of late. I (snail) mailed him a picture of a half dime I was wondering about. Thanks for any knowing of his abouts.

EagleEye

I heard from him within the last month and he's doing better, although I think he's declared a moratorium on attributing - trying to catch up on the work load he already has.

joeykoins

Oh, o.k. thank you,buddy for the heads up. Does anyone know if he's a forum member?

guitarwes

I emailed him a couple weeks ago on my new 1965 DDO Quarter find, hadn't heard back from him.

WaterSport

This july will be three years he requested to see one of my coins ( I got the emails) I sent it, and never heard back from him let alone has he had the decency despite his problems to even return the $500 coin despite calls, letters and follow up emails. So I do not recommend anyone sending him coins at this time for any reason.

WS

AMRC

<< <i>This july will be three years he requested to see one of my coins ( I got the emails) I sent it, and never heard back from him let alone has he had the decency despite his problems to even return the $500 coin despite calls, letters and follow up emails. So I do not recommend anyone sending him coins at this time for any reason.

WS >>



Yikes!

EXOJUNKIE

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<< <i>This july will be three years he requested to see one of my coins ( I got the emails) I sent it, and never heard back from him let alone has he had the decency despite his problems to even return the $500 coin despite calls, letters and follow up emails. So I do not recommend anyone sending him coins at this time for any reason.

WS >>



Yikes! >>



Yikes is an understatement! Not cool....

Papi

joeykoins

WoW

Caleb

Ken and his wife have both recovered from their cancers and then made what Ken calls a long hard move out into the country after which he took care of his 91 year old mother for nearly a year after she had shingles. He says now that his mother is back home, he is still unpacking and playing catch up on five or six fronts and gaining a bit of ground every day. He is suggesting that no coins get sent to him for examination until he is caught up. He says he tries to answer email but gets so much that some of it sometimes escapes him. He says that a better way to contact him is by phone at 313-268-3280.

Casman

Well, sounds goofy to me. From his website:

April 20013 -- Noted error-variety coin columnist and author, Ken Potter, will be attending the Michigan State Numismatic Society Spring Convention on Friday April 19 through Sunday April 21 2013, where he will be offering free error-variety coin examination services. He will also have coinage dies, hubs, collars, punches and other tooling used in the minting process for a hands-on examination. Many of the dies will show errors such as clashed dies, cuds, shattered dies, doubled dies, etc.

Potter will also be offering macro and photomicrography services at reasonable cost and will be offering autographed copies of his latest book, Strike It Rich With Pocket Change 3rd Edition that he coauthored with Dr. Brian Allen along with copies of the latest Cherrypickers' Guide To Rare Die Varieties, by Bill Fivaz and J.T. Stanton, which as editor, he will also autograph.

Application forms for membership in the Combined Organizations of Numismatic Error Collectors of America along with sample copies of their journal will be available.

Potter asks persons who intend to bring coins for an opinion to limit themselves to about five coins per person. He stated, "We may be able to fudge a bit on the five-coin rule but we cannot render opinions on boxes containing hundreds of coins.”

The Michigan State Numismatic Society Spring Convention the Adoba of Dearborn, MI (formally The Hyatt). Directions, show times, and the convention show program can be found here >>> MSNS Spring Show

The feature attraction of this show is the wide variety of dealers including most from outside the metro area from all around the country. This offers an opportunity for local dealers and collectors to pick through fresh inventories.

A majority of this show's dealers own shops or attend larger regional and national shows, are well established, offer nice inventories and are known for fair dealing. This is one of the Great Lakes area's largest, exclusively numismatic shows with over 150 tables with dealers who buy, sell and trade US, Canadian, worldwide (including everything from ancient, medieval and modern); gold, silver, paper, bullion and collector coins.

Type2

Yup sent ck, Sent coins, Sent Email's never did get any of them back it was not much $30 or $60 oh well. I would not send any thing to him for now till he says he can get it done, I Hope he is doing better.

keez

Sounds like he's been through a lot.

I'm still waiting to receive my Minnesota DDR-004 in the Philadelphia satin finish mint set back. Hopefully he'll go way back and catch up on things.

seanq

He was never great about turning stuff around, I can remember sending him stuff more than 15 years ago and waiting months for a response.


Sean Reynolds

Barry

<< <i>This july will be three years he requested to see one of my coins ( I got the emails) I sent it, and never heard back from him let alone has he had the decency despite his problems to even return the $500 coin despite calls, letters and follow up emails. So I do not recommend anyone sending him coins at this time for any reason.
WS >>



If you sent it with Delivery Confirmation, if it were me, I'd make a call to his local police department and see if you can get them to pay him a visit.

hammer1

<< <i>If you sent it with Delivery Confirmation, if it were me, I'd make a call to his local police department and see if you can get them to pay him a visit. >>



^^^^Are you kidding? No cop would get involved. "Oh, but officer I have a delivery confirmation". LMAO.

19Lyds

<< <i>Oh, o.k. thank you,buddy for the heads up. Does anyone know if he's a forum member? >>

Forum Handle = koinpro

But, if he's not replying to emails I expect he's not browsing the PCGS Coin Forums either.

19Lyds

<< <i>Really, how much time can an email possibly take to answer? They stay in your mailbox in the order received until deleted. >>

Not necessarily. It depends upon how your inbox is set up.

Personally, given his health issues, I'd refrain from "disrespecting" him since he obviously cannot reply.

Casman

Well, more of less true in this state...Heck, we can walk wanted felons into the police department to turn them in and they ask: "Do you have an appointment?"

Perhaps the prosecutors office may be interested but that may take a full parade of those persons who sent off their coins and did not get them back.

I think the better route is to find a lawyer to take the case pro bono

Papi

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<< <i>Really, how much time can an email possibly take to answer? They stay in your mailbox in the order received until deleted. >>

Not necessarily. It depends upon how your inbox is set up.

Personally, given his health issues, I'd refrain from "disrespecting" him since he obviously cannot reply. >>




He obviously cannot reply, but he can fulfill Ebay orders?

Really, I'm being disrespectful?

JerseyJoe

<< <i>^^^^Are you kidding? No cop would get involved. "Oh, but officer I have a delivery confirmation". LMAO. >>




A forum member sold of some stuff because he was on hard times. took the money and disappeared from the forum.
Six months later I get a bug up my a$$ and ask my local police what I can do. Mind you I only had printouts of his
"auctions". My police department let me file a report. I posted it on the forum and suddenly a week later I received
my cash in an envelope and a little extra for my trouble. The part that surprised me was my police dept. calling me
a couple weeks later asking if I wanted them to "reach out to the Indiana police dept. so they could pay him a visit."

Caleb

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<< <i>Really, how much time can an email possibly take to answer? They stay in your mailbox in the order received until deleted. >>

Not necessarily. It depends upon how your inbox is set up.

Personally, given his health issues, I'd refrain from "disrespecting" him since he obviously cannot reply. >>




He obviously cannot reply, but he can fulfill Ebay orders?

Really, I'm being disrespectful? >>



I think his daughter might be doing eBay for him, if you have to ask if you are being disrespectful then probably you are

tradedollarnut

Maybe his daughter should answer his email, too.

Papi

<< <i> if you have to ask if you are being disrespectful then probably you are >>

Broadstruck

Wow some threads really snowball on here from questioning the mans health to...

CoinZip

libel

seanq

<< <i>libel >>



Libel would mean the statements made here are false. Ken has always been notoriously slow about turning around attributions and replying to correspondence, I'm sure his recent illness and move have only exacerbated the problem.


Sean Reynolds

oldsubguru

Add me to the list of people who sent coins to Potter and never had them returned. I think that 8 years is a long enough wait for a turn-around.

19Lyds

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<< <i>Really, how much time can an email possibly take to answer? They stay in your mailbox in the order received until deleted. >>

Not necessarily. It depends upon how your inbox is set up.

Personally, given his health issues, I'd refrain from "disrespecting" him since he obviously cannot reply. >>




He obviously cannot reply, but he can fulfill Ebay orders?

Really, I'm being disrespectful? >>



I think his daughter might be doing eBay for him, if you have to ask if you are being disrespectful then probably you are >>

Thank You Caleb.

joeykoins

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<< <i>Oh, o.k. thank you,buddy for the heads up. Does anyone know if he's a forum member? >>

Forum Handle = koinpro

But, if he's not replying to emails I expect he's not browsing the PCGS Coin Forums either. >>

Thanks for the answer,as if he's a member or not. also, on your next post, I agree 100%! Thanks again. -joey

joeykoins

I guess I made the right decision by only mailing Ken "pictures" of my coin instead of the real thing? This was the first time I tried this sort of thing. We have to pray for Ken and his wife. Sorry about you guys that got the rough part of the deal! I too would try the daughter,like suggested earlier. Good Luck,guys.

grote15

If he's attending and performing services at a show, one could reasonably expect that he'd be able to at least respond to those who sent him coins years ago with no response. That certainly doesn't sound like an unreasonable expectation.

tradedollarnut

Respectful is as respectful does....

RichieURich

<< <i>If he's attending and performing services at a show, one could reasonably expect that he'd be able to at least respond to those who sent him coins years ago with no response. That certainly doesn't sound like an unreasonable expectation. >>





He also seems to have time to write up articles for Coin World.

Maybe you should contact Coin World and ask for help.

pitboss

I just hope he is doing his work on the cherry pickers guide so we can get an updated version!

tahoe98

...lots of priorities to get in order, yes?