Mike Casper Collection: His 1880-s

gemtone65

Mike Casper, a longtime dealer, amassed one of the finest Morgan dollar collections. It consisted mostly of untoned very high grade specimens of all or most dates. A few of the dates were toned, including this 1880-s which I acquired directly from him about 10 years ago. I think he called it "Root beer head" or something to that effect. Mike seemed like an interesting character. Anybody know much about Mike or have any of his pedigreed coins to show?

coindeuce

I got acquainted with Mike in the 1990's, when he invited me in to his home in Central N.Y. during a transaction. He is a man of many talents. He was a police officer, a high level market maker of meteorites, a restauranteur, a hotelier and is currently an organic farmer. He also has built a high level collection of Colonial/Continental Currency, and was actively involved in the market for high grade certified postage stamps.

bolivarshagnasty

Wow, I thought I stayed busy.

metalmeister

Clean cheek!

Lakesammman

Didn't he also sell coin flips in the Dave Hall Numismatic Investment style??

I seem to recall buying 1 or 2 but can't find the photo.

asheland

That's a beauty!

ricko

He sounds like an extremely interesting individual.... what an amazing background. Cheers, RickO

Kccoin

Nice coin. Pretty neat that you were able to acquire from THE guy on the label.

AMRC

It's a looker!

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