Ed Hipps has passed away...

cmerlo1

I'm attending the Cowtown show in Fort Worth and an announcement was made that he had passed. Condolences to Lance and the rest of his family...

Barndog

read that earlier today. Always liked seeing Ed at a show.

MICHAELDIXON

Sad to read. Ed was a great guy!

EagleEye

Oh, so sad. My deepest condolences to Lance and the family.

Walkerguy21D

My prayers and sympathies as well.
Ed had some great stories to share at shows back when he was more active.
I just mentioned him in the Dorothy Paschal thread last night!
I'll really miss him.


Still my favorite coin from Ed/Lance....they had just bought a date set of early halves in an old album at a show and let me pick through to choose one the Draped Bust coins that fit my budget at the time.

IrishMikey

Ed was certainly a character! He will be missed.

RichieURich

I knew Ed Hipps when he was located in Pennsylvania.

We often talked about the shows "back in the day".

Ed was a true numismatist, really knew his coins,

and was always interested in seeing something new.



My sincere condolences to Lance and the Hipps family.

dpoole

Big loss. Earthy, fun, big-hearted man. He was a mentor for me.

BustCuds

Sad News, thoughts and condolences to the family.

BillJones

Sad to hear .... Ed was one of the old timers ... I remember him at the New York City shows in the 1970s buying up stacks of coins from the Paramont Auction sales.

joeykoins

DIMEMAN

So sad to hear....Ed was a great guy. My prayers go out to Lance and family.

MrEureka

Very sorry to hear this. I knew Ed for close to 40 years. Not the end of an era, but it feels like it.

david3142

I used to stop by his table at every Baltimore show and I bought a number of my Dansco Type coins from him. I watched Lance grow into a young man too. Very sorry to hear that he is gone. He was one of my favorite people in the business.

Justacommeman

RIP sir



mark

Walkerfan

RIP---My thoughts and prayers are with the family during this difficult time.

MFH

Ed was a true gentleman and he will be missed by everyone who ever knew him.
My sincerest condolences to the entire Hipps family.

Baley

Condolences to Ed's family and many friends.

Julian

I first met Ed back in the late 1960's in his store in PA and we were quite close ever since, attending shows and auctions.

In addition being a very knowledgeable numismatist, he was a lot more. We went out to dinner, played cards and had lots of fun after the shows or auctions were over for the day. He was riding high in the late 70's as proof nickel coins skyrocketed; imagine Gem 3c nickels for $3000. He was in there all the way!!

I visited him in March when the ANA was in Dallas and knew the end was near. He is in a better place now; no more suffering. My condolences to his wife and daughters as well as his three sons who are all in the coin business today

amwldcoin

So sorry to hear. Ed was the type to throw great advice around and tell entertaining tales during jubilation times after the show. I do believe he had a long,happy successful life and sorry to hear his last few years had been difficult.

georgiacop50

He was the genuine Mr. Nice Guy....

OKbustchaser

One of the nicest guys I ever met in the hobby. Always willing to share knowledge and a new story. He will be missed.

MacCrimmon

To all of Ed's family, my sincerest condolences.

If not for Ed I likely would never have rekindled my passion for coins. While I was home for the Christmas holidays in 1980 (?) I just happened to catch the tail end of a local TV news story about this coin dealer who had just relocated to the Northpark area in Dallas, TX. His corner shop was located in a new strip shopping center barely a half mile from my apartment. Imagine the luck. Let's just say Ed was extremely long-suffering with my constant presence over the next 4-5 years.

I first wandered in with a newp I had bought a month before I knew of his presence. The other dealer had said it was a "nice" unc; it was a 1913 T1 Buff. Ed took a look at my prize and kinda grimaced, turned to ask Bill if the first box of Buffalos were out of the safe. He handed me a double-row red cardboard box JAMMED with mostly gem unc. Buffs. That box started with 1913 and only went through about 1917 - all in his trademark squared-windowed 2x2s or in cotton pouches inside white Kraft envelopes. He pulls out a dozen or so 1913 T1 and proceeds to show me in detail all the rub my poor coin had on those high points. GULP! Mine might have made it as an AU, at best.

That was my first lesson. Over the next several months Ed taught me grading via thousands of choice-gem unc. coins of all types in his inventory - like a kid in a candy shop. I bought the best I could afford at the time, and salivated over the rest, and waited like a puppy for all the newps he'd bring back from the weekend coin shows!!! HEAVEN INDEED! Closing the shop on Saturdays with a toast of a few bottles of Cordon Negro wasn't bad either. RIP, Ed; and thanks!

barberkeys

Very sorry to hear about Ed.

knightem

Condolences to all of Ed's family and friends.

DaveWcoins

I too have known Ed since the late 1970's. He was the undisputed KING of 3c nickel proofs, at a time when they were the #1 hottest coin in a white hot coin market (1979-1980).



He had double row boxes full of them , all in date order and all (as someone else mentioned) in his "trademark square window 2x2 cardboard flips".



I always considered him a marketing genius for exclusively using those distinctive flips. Whenever you saw a coin in one of those flips - whether in a collection, or in a dealer's box of new purchases - you immediately knew where it came from.



I learned the "rest of the story" only recently. Someone (maybe his son Lance, who is a rising star in the coin biz and extremely sharp) told me that a long time ago -- maybe in the mid-1970's or maybe far earlier -- he obtained an entire garage full of these distinctive flips, and he has been using that same hoard up to the present day.



He was a kind, funny, intelligent guy, and he will be sorely missed.

johnny9434

my condolences to his family and friends

ScarsdaleCoin

Very sorry to hear about Ed today... that really is a shame, I was reminded of a beautiful poem by Linda Ellis titled Dash and I do think its most appropriate





I read of a man who stood to speak at the funeral of a friend. He referred to the dates on her casket from beginning to the end. He noted that first came the date of her birth and spoke of the following date with tears, but he said what mattered most of all was the dash between those years. For that dash represents all the time that she spent alive on earth and now only those who loved her know what that little line is worth.



For it matters not, how much we own, the cars, the house, the cash,



What matters is how we live and love and how we spend our dash.



So think about this long and hard; Are there things you would like to change?



For you never know how much time is left that can still be rearranged.



If we could just slow down enough to consider what is true and real



and always try to understand the way other people feel.



And be less quick to anger and show appreciation more



and love the people in our lives like we have never loved before.



If we treat each other with respect and more often wear a smile,



Remembering that this special dash might only last a little while.



So when your eulogy is being read with your life’s actions to rehash…



Would you be proud of the things they say about how you spent your dash?