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VeepVeep Posts: 1,454 ✭✭✭✭

Bought this about 20 years ago or so at a flea market and planned to put it with the Pan Pac $50 that I hoped to own. Still have the card but for some reason (or sixty thousand of them) never acquired the coin.


"Let me tell ya Bud, you can buy junk anytime!"

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  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice, I like it, wish I had one !!! :)

    Timbuk3
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,815 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Unfortunately $60 thousand buys the “family sedan” these days. There was one on the show circuit a few years ago for $20 thousand. Unfortunately it had been recovered from a building demo, and looked like it had lost a fight with a hammer.

    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 ... ?
  • Batman23Batman23 Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like the wish list too. Neat card. You researched and priced the value of the wishlist at all?

  • Batman23Batman23 Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭✭✭

    And you still have time to get the Pan Pac to go with your card. ;)

  • PocketArtPocketArt Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Awesome- save that card because it belongs with one. You'll get it- the gettin' does get to the good more often than not. Sooner, or, later. I look forward to the post when you can claim that honor.

  • VeepVeep Posts: 1,454 ✭✭✭✭

    I never looked into the want list. Just thought it was interesting.

    I actually bid on an AU octagonal a couple of years ago but was runner-up. I may have won it with a better bid strategy. I haven't lost any sleep over it though.

    "Let me tell ya Bud, you can buy junk anytime!"
  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,436 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I can't access the sites at work but are some relevant results from a Google search. There is a ton of numismatic history behind that card!

    Heritage to Offer Two Extraordinary 1915-S Pan-Pac 50 Dollar ...
    https://coins.ha.com › Home › All Coins
    Sep 6, 2000 - Before his death on March 6, 1949, Hein left his coins in a safe ... in 1959, Emilia Hein left these same instructions for their daughter, Hilda.

    The Numismatist: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine for Those ...
    https://books.google.com/books?id=HGk-AQAAMAAJ
    1920 - ‎Numismatics
    An Illustrated Monthly Magazine for Those Interested in Coins, Medals, and ... To Mr. Frank Hein and daughter, Hilda Hein, who, by their generosity, made it ...

    1907 Saint Gaudens Double Eagle - Ultra-High Relief - CoinFacts.com
    www.coinfacts.com/double_eagles/.../1907_double_eagle_ultra_lettered_edge.htm
    The list includes 20 pieces, of which some are duplications of the same coin. A Roster of Known Examples: 1. Ex - Frank Hein Family - sold in 2000 for $1.1 ...

  • VeepVeep Posts: 1,454 ✭✭✭✭
    "Let me tell ya Bud, you can buy junk anytime!"
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,749 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Great postcard! I wonder if Farran Zerbe had those at his booth at the Panama-Pacific Exposition.

    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice bit of exonumia... I would keep that for sure....even without the $50 PanPac.... Cheers, RickO

  • philographerphilographer Posts: 1,325 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 1, 2018 11:11AM

    Perhaps a bit easier on the wallet to reunite the postcard with the coin owner, rather than the coins with the postcard owner!

    He who knows he has enough is rich.

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