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My first CW ad: LOTS OF RATTLERS!
MrEureka
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This ad appeared in Coin World in 1988. Interesting to see how relative values have changed over the years! Even more interesting to know from first hand experience that similarly wild shifts in relative values are destined to happen again and again and again.
Andy Lustig
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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1893 Columbian Half NGC 66 at $5950!
1876-CC 20C Piece NGC 65 at 110K!
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Man that was a heck of a group of coins!
Latin American Collection
Why doesn't anyone answer the phone?
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I wonder how many of those have since been upgraded.
Some cool opportunities in that group! I'd like to request the price on the PanPac double set...
Although, in 1988 the SP500 was at $266...
I'll take the 09s Indian for 995.00 lol
Amazing group of coins there
HAPPY COLLECTING
Wow - I'll take the patterns!
What does "struck from straited dies mean"??
I wonder how many of those NGC holders are of the 1.0 and 2.1 variety? Or how many of the PCGS were the white label rattlers. Such a cool piece of history there. Sure shows how the market has changed a bit since then.
3 - 1895 Proof Morgans?
2 - 1876cc double dimes???
Whoa, some heady stuff there Andy!
bob
Would love to see a pic of the PF68 Barber half
@MrEureka,
A 30 year old ad, with this quality of material? You must've been a young sprout then, so it's even more amazing that you had all this stuff. One thing I noticed: no world coins in the ad.
EVP
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Neat add, thanks for sharing. Some big coins listed in that add.
Some big coins for such a then young man! Those Commem prices were lofty! And I wonder where that 1807 Small Stars half in NGC 65 is today?
Tom
Amazing - and all of that at 14 years old.
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Well, that was fun to think about for a while.
Wow, what a group of coins. The listing that caught my eye was the Pan-Pacific double set with the original copper frame!
Jeff
The link is gone.....
My father in law just gave me an old Coin world from 2007. I saw a coin going for $17,000. I picked up that same coin , ten years later (last year) for $8400 including the juice. You been around forever, it seems... Andy.
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It's like the DuPont Registry, for coins.
Andy - I’ll sell you my 1895 PR 68 D Cam Barber Half for $ 64,950 .
That’s 30 years after your ad. If it’s a good deal for you,it’s a good deal for me.
The Kellogg $50 has me reaching for the phone.
Here's a question from someone "outside the business":
What kind of response did an ad like this generate? Would you expect a couple of inquiries? Crazy ringing phones, and questions and offers on MOST of the coins? 2 or 3 sales? An emptied inventory?
To me, there is something completely incongruous about a news-print advertisement, and items selling for 10's of thousands of dollars. Of course, I guess this is/was THE newspaper of the hobby.....
sign me up for the 1841 quarter eagle
Wow, definitely some cool coins in that ad.
Drooling over the 1876-CC 20c pair, 1838-O half, and 1895 Morgan.
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Now that's what I call a high end inventory!!
Very cool!
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Very choice and high end "caviar" for the upper crust. When certification was still new, I'm curious how many of the dealers reacted to this new phenomenal of slabbing in the beginning.
Andy was Laura Sperber before Laura Sperber was Laura Sperber.
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Is the area code still 201? I remember when NJ had only 201 & 609! LOL..
Not a single CAC sticker...
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For the record, I do know how to spell "striated".
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
In retrospect, I wonder how someone smart enough to recognize that 1838-O Half Dollars and 1876-CC Twenty Cent Pieces were bargains was also stupid enough to stock Elgins in 66 at close to 3K. Makes me wonder where my blind spots are today.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think this might be it:
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
@CoinRaritiesOnline said: Andy was Laura Sperber before Laura Sperber was Laura Sperber.
For the record, I do know how to spell "striated".
The real secret is that Andy didn't sell any of them. He has them stored away in his personal "vault."
Tom
The market, and the world, is big enough for only one Laura.
And, I can think of a more accurate, and less funny, comparison.
How does one get a hater to stop hating?
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Superb listing!
I sold an NGC 67 Vancouver for 12k in 1988.
Beautiful Barber half!
My 1866 Philly Mint Set
It really is interesting to see such an ad... and reflect on prices then and now for different coins.... Many - if not most - of us, have lived through that period, and looking back can be a tad jarring. Now, if we could see 30 years in the future, I am sure there are amazing opportunities....If only there were such a thing as crystal balls...
that really could reveal the future. Much like psychics or fortune tellers that never win the lottery.....Cheers, RickO
I’ll take the small-eagle half dollar, thank you.
No web site, email address or cell number?
Shoddy business practice if you ask me.
"If I say something in the woods and my wife isn't there to hear it.....am I still wrong?"
My Washington Quarter Registry set...in progress
Great coins are always great coins.
Love this!
That was a lead up to an insane market.
J
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@MrEureka
Any idea of what the asking price was for the Pan Pac double set back in 1988?
Also I guess 1895 Morgan proofs in 65 were 'widgets' back then since you had 3 of them
I think we were just coming out of the market crash then with gold at $410 & silver at $6
How intriguing to see it all in that perspective. Thank you for posting.
@10000lakes said:
@MrEureka
Any idea of what the asking price was for the Pan Pac double set back in 1988?
*note an article in Los Angeles Times dated Feb 04/1988 in "My Coin" section; the partial answer of $50 Pan Pac price range is $10,000 - $30,000; with the rounds commanding higher price due to their lower mintage of 483 compare to 645 octagonal ones.
I probably had half a dozen Pan Pac $50's at the time, so the double set was going to be based on which of the coins the buyer wanted. Crazy but true. Anyway, a double set in 63 (easily today's 64's) with the frame would have been about 200K.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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I remember sitting through the 1988 ANA sales in Cincinnati and recalling how weak the 1876-cc 20c piece(s) bidding went. $75K-$85K for MS65/66 is what I recall. Briefly considered raising my hand...until reality took hold...lol.
1884 seated dime in PCGS MS65PQ for $2900. Yikes. 66's today are about a fifth of that. Andy was the Mr. PQ before the current "Mr PQ," Larry Shepard.
In 1988 I had to beg dealers to buy my 1846 Tall Date NGC MS65 half for $4200. I recall that Lee Bellisario "bailed me out on it" at Baltimore. Today it's in a 66 holder and traded hands over $20K not long ago.
Didn't know that Columbian Halves in MS66 were underappreciated rarities back then...and finally getting recognition. Or was that recognition from "Telemarketers" who bailed on this market in 1990/1991 and dropped prices around 65% in about a year?
Hackensack, NJ....Conrad "Corky" Vena's old stomping grounds.
@MrEureka
Do you own any?
Some things never change!
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Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.