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There's just something visceral about the Partrick collection.....

LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,443 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Have lusted after those early patterns for so long and here they are, being offered at the FUN show.

WOW! image

Could afford 1 or 2 if the wife was willing to move into a Winnebago.... image
"My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.

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  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
    She will love living on the road

    MJ
    Walker Proof Digital Album
    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......
  • TomBTomB Posts: 21,951 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Let her move into a Winnebago...you just be certain to stay in the house.imageimage
    Thomas Bush Numismatics & Numismatic Photography

    In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson

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  • DMWJRDMWJR Posts: 6,020 ✭✭✭✭✭
    just wow
    Doug
  • ColonelJessupColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭
    MrE, Don Kagin and myself got lucky in a Stacks sale in maybe 2001 and bought the Parmelee '92 Silver Disme for $103,500. VF details, with wholesome original scratches pedigreed in its 1891 appearance.

    Partrick's is much the better. And part of the fountainhead. And the whole collection is a signal accomplishment.

    But the Silver Disme is not what I hoped. A conversation with Walter Breen in 1985 led me to believe there is a Full Choice Unc out there. But, with the reported awful one, that would make 4. I may have misunderstood. My memory of that evening is cloudy image

    I remember a night at the Temple Square Hotel at a Salt Like City 80's Mid-Winter ANA(?) with Andy, Bill Nagle and I in a $32 room with a roll-away. Andy spent all night mumbling about Getz and Wright, Voight, Harper, Houdin, Rittenhouse and Sally Hemmings. Kept me up half the night, and then the next morning Nagle accused me of snoring. Andy, who'd had the roll-away, just smiled. We were both guilty, I suppose. . . image

    I have respect for the Nova patterns, but to me these later patterns are more truly the seminal issues in the lineage of American Federal Coinage. They all ooze the most puissant elements and attributes of numismatic relevance, historicity, karma juice and DNA.

    The cataloguing is superb. You owe yourself an hour or three of reading.
    "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Geo. Orwell
  • kazkaz Posts: 9,240 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Rittenhouse and Sally Hemings?" Sounds like a book/movie in there somewhere!
  • OldIndianNutKaseOldIndianNutKase Posts: 2,714 ✭✭✭✭✭
    <<The cataloguing is superb. You owe yourself an hour or three of reading. >>

    Words well spoken, Colonel. We can all experience the history of US coinage without investing in a 1792 half disme.

    OINK
  • NicNic Posts: 3,400 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's only half Lakes. If she put her foot down you could still buy one!

    Can't wait to see them.

    My 1866 Philly Mint Set

  • BigMooseBigMoose Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭
    The Birch Cent in 65RB is hypnotic.
    TomT-1794

    Check out some of my 1794 Large Cents on www.coingallery.org
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The Birch Cent in 65RB is hypnotic. >>



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    Lakesammman, Show her this Stunning Restored 1954 Airstream Flying Cloud Travel Trailer to see if she might be tempted prior to bidding imageimage

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    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • BigMooseBigMoose Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭
    Broadstruck, that Airstream would drive Mike and Frank from the television show American Pickers out of their minds.
    TomT-1794

    Check out some of my 1794 Large Cents on www.coingallery.org
  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,926 ✭✭✭✭✭
    .....I had a huge 1953 Buick Roadmaster a few decades back which would have been perfect to to that trailer. Yes the Patrick catalog is stunning. I particularly enjoyed seeing the full set of Vermont Coppers. If I had unlimited resources I would stand there hand up and buy them all. Jeff Davis's Confederate Half is just mesmerizing to view.... To think of how many times the President held and looked at his coin....
  • astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That Airstream is beautiful ... although I it's not quite accurate to refer to it as "restored." That's like referring to a modern hotrod as "restored" because it uses the original shell.

    If PCGS's restoration service followed the same principles, each coin submitted would come back a 70! image
    Numismatist Ordinaire
    See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
  • DeepCoinDeepCoin Posts: 2,781 ✭✭✭
    It looks like a boat builder did the wood on the Airstream, VERY nice....
    Retired United States Mint guy, now working on an Everyman Type Set.
  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Should be easy. Just tell her that you guys are driving down to Orlando this year......
  • shylockshylock Posts: 4,288 ✭✭✭
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    Paul <> altered surfaces <> CoinGallery.org
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,385 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The Birch Cent actually looks much better in hand, believe it or not.
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,443 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow - auction lot viewing is going to be the highlight of this FUN show. image

    typo edit......image
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • AnalystAnalyst Posts: 1,438 ✭✭✭

    Col. Jessup: <<But the Silver Disme is not what I hoped. A conversation with Walter Breen in 1985 led me to believe there is a Full Choice Unc out there. But, with the reported awful one, that would make 4. I may have misunderstood. My memory of that evening is cloudy>>

    Within the last five years, I heard a rumor about a choice MS 1792 silver Disme. I, too, was hoping that it exists and that Partrick had it. Saul Teichman, though, is the foremost researcher of U.S. patterns and he does not have clear information about a high quality example surviving.

    BigMoose: <<The Birch Cent in 65RB is hypnotic. >>

    Broadstruck: <<I agree ...>>

    Congratulations to Kevin Lipton, the successful bidder.

    Col. Jessup: <<Andy spent all night mumbling about Getz and Wright, Voight, Harper, Houdin, Rittenhouse ...>>

    My research so far suggests that here is not evidence that Getz made any dies or produced any patterns. He was a clever silversmith and an inventor.

    On Getz, please see my addendum to: The Fabulous Eric Newman Collection, Part 12: Pre-1793 Patterns for U.S. coins

    Col. Jessup: 1792 <<patterns are more truly the seminal issues in the lineage of American Federal Coinage.>>

    Yes, these are important, interesting and cool. I comment on the prices realized of some Partrick patterns and discuss current market levels in my analysis:

    Rare U.S. Coins Fare Well in FUN Auction: Coin Market Levels Remain Stable


    "In order to understand the scarce coins that you own or see, you must learn about coins that you cannot afford." -Me

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