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"Rescued Rarities" - Mints and FRBs pulled rare coins from post-1933 deposits.

RogerBRogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited June 8, 2017 11:00AM in U.S. Coin Forum

This article is in the June Numismatist, pages 43-51, and might be of interest to many collectors.

It describes how the Mints and FRBs rescued rare gold coins from pieces deposited following the gold hoarding orders of 1933. It's especially interesting to notice how many very rare pieces were turned in at face value - a testament to what can happen to collections inherited by uninformed relatives.

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    PQueuePQueue Posts: 901 ✭✭✭

    Read the article, one of the best recently published in The Numismatist.

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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just got the magazine, will definitely read the article.... Thanks for the heads-up. Cheers, RickO

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    BillJonesBillJones Posts: 35,889 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yes, and great article and one of the black marks against the Roosevelt Administration. FDR rates at a near great to great president, but he is not on the level with Lincoln and Washington partly because he was so arrogant.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?

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