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What is the next 1854-s $5 discovery?
kenriles012
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The big news got me thinking there are obviously more coins out there that owners have tucked away or (like with the 1854-s $5 discovery) were told it was fake.
I am not sure I can touch something of the magnitude of the 1854-s $5 but I know plenty of complete (minus 95 Proof) Morgan sets raw in a Whitman book.
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A 1959 Wheat back penny. (certified of course)
"Keep your malarkey filter in good operating order" -Walter Breen
I'm working on it as I stumbled across something accidentally I can't discuss right now
There are likely hundreds of interesting things out there in family attics, envelopes and amidst old newspaper clippings. Imagine if each past mint employee kept just one souvenir piece. Several employees and officers were active coin collectors -- what remains in family holdings. (Think of the Eckfeldt Family materials that popped up a couple of years ago.)
The DuPont collection will come out one day such as the 66 no motto dollar or the other 54s
11.5$ Southern Dollars, The little “Big Easy” set
I'd love a 1958 Memorial back cent!
Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.
Probably something on the world of paper money. There are plenty of old US notes with only a dozen or so examples known, and most are heavily circulated. Someone is going to open a family bible and find one in 63 PPQ
Yes, it is interesting !!!
Uncirculated condition 1793 Strawberry Leaf large cent.
Somewhere....
A few more examples of the Gloucester Courthouse tokens would be nice!
Sooner or later a '64D Peace will surface.....and be the focus of the next major court case. Unless I find it...
"My precious....".... And I know there is an off metal cent out there...still trying to get that one. Cheers, RickO
I'm waiting on an 1873-S Seated Liberty Dollar to show up! There were rumors 1 was seen 40 or 50 years ago.
Gotta be one or more caches of Dahlonega or Charlotte or Bechtler or Templeton Reid gold or all of the above that were squirreled away during the Civil War. I wouldn't mind finding one of those stacks.
it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide
After I started working in Collectors Clearinghouse in 1974, Ed Fleischmann there told me a story about a woman from the Columbus Ohio area who had brought in a decent 1861-D gold dollar a few years earlier. The family had an old roll-top desk it had inherited, and during a house break-in somebody had rifled through the desk but left behind an envelope that felt empty. In it was the 1861-D.
That sounds interesting. Can the forum get a preview?
Hopefully by the fall a discovery announcement will be made
While cleaning out a rodent trap in a dark corner of the SF mint, a dirty, but unworn 1870-S $3 gold is found, The story is they only made 1 but when the clumsy mint apprentice bent down to scratch his itchy feet, it rolled away so they struck another. I don't know if the apprentice was fired and billed for the lost coin.
Metal detectorists will surely find something of significant interest.
The Mother Lode of discoveries will be the 1870 cornerstone of the Second San Francisco Mint. Not just another $3, but an 1870-S Quarter!
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A real 1841-O half eagle? An uncirculated 1817/4 half dollar would drive all the Bust Half Nuts even more crazy. An 1873-S no arrows half dollar would be pretty interesting, too.
Pacific Northwest Numismatic Association
Maybe the 1974 Lincoln cent struck on a bronze-clad steel planchet, an experimental piece struck at the same time as the more famous aluminum cent, will reappear. I saw it in our offices at Coin World in 1994, and Mint officials confirmed that they had been struck. It was sent to us by a former steel mill worker who witnessed the destruction of bags of these experimental pieces at his steel mill, where they had been brought by Mint personnel to be melted. A bag broke and some bronze-clad steel cents were scattered; a few pieces were snatched up by workers, including my source, The cents remain on the forbidden-to-collect list like the aluminum cents.
William T. Gibbs, Coin World
A bag of 33 Saints turns up........
SS Central America may yet cough up another 54s $5.
Seems some of the more significant finds fail to gather much interest. Sort of sad...
Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.
I have heard all my life that millions in Confederate gold was buried to fund the next rebellion when it was realized that the cause was lost.
1947-P & D; 1948-D; 1949-P & S; 1950-D & S; and 1952-S.
Any help locating any of these OBW rolls would be gratefully appreciated!
What Confederate gold? They spent it all.
Any "patriotic" traitors contributed their gold to the cause, from whence it went to Europe to buy war materials, Anybody that held gold back from the Cause would not have given a tinker's dam about the next treason.
I would tend to bet against another showing up from the wreck. This coin was 13 years old at the time and had circulated (to whatever extent it ever did) so no gleaming rows of them would have been laying around.
Well, just Love coins, period.
Only three years. And even one XF/AU would be a FIND!
There's still lots of stuff sitting around that hasn't been seen in generations, who knows if it's real, but it's out there. There was local collector who died 20 years ago owning 3 date sets of large cents and 2 of half cents. One of the cent sets has a "strawberry leaf", which everyone assumes is fake, but it hasn't been seen in 40 years. All of that stuff is supposedly still in SDBs, along with who knows what. That same collector sold $100k face of silver during the Hunt run-up, so the family has never needed to sell anything else that he had.
This is the most interesting one to me. Do you suppose anyone has approached the family just to authenticate the Strawberry Leaf cent? No need to sell it but it'd be cool to see another one!
When I was working for the ANA in the early 1980's, we got a letter from some people in Upstate New York about a collection of an ANA member who had died in 1940! His widow had just put everything into the bank and left it there until she died over 40 years later. Best coin a Gem 1876-CC Twenty Center.