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I regretted selling my Camp David Peace dollars so much that...

OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
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...I had to buy another...

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These are the eBay pictures. It looks MUCH BETTER in hand. I'll have to re-shoot it.

Cheers,

Bob

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  • dogwooddogwood Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭✭
    <<<<this one.

    PCGS XF45 1901-o half
    Edit to add I've been unable to re-buy it, only emailed an unanswered inquiry.

    That's a cool Peace you have.
    What's the history with it?
    We're all born MS70. I'm about a Fine 15 right now.
  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
    These were designed by Mel Wacks and counterstamped on Peace Dollars to commemorate the event. Only 1,000 were struck. One each went to Carter, Begin, and Sadat. The rest were given to attendees and some were sold to the public.

    Cheers,

    Bob
  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Am I to understand that NGC is grading these?

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  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well, if you want to call a thousand strikes common, the I guess they would be.

    Cheers,

    Bob
  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    Are the reverse rims scuffed?

    By the way, nice carpet. image


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  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice......they ruined a 1928 Peace Dollar!image
  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nope, no scuffs. And, it's a 23, not a 28.

    And, NO, it's not my carpet...image

    Cheers,

    Bob
  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sorry, that sure looked like an "8".
  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,308 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I thought these were common, no? >>



    They seem to be in the $140 to $160 range nowadays. I'm still sitting on 10 of them that I picked up from $30 to $80 over the last several years.



  • MercuryMercury Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭✭
    I agree with dnaDave, they where less costly a few years ago.
    The prices on eBay have been going up the last few years.
    They have been talked about here before.
    Do a search and there is a lot of info.

    I have a few and casualy look out for others.

    Mercury
    Collecting Peace Dollars and Modern Crap.
  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I know. I had a few of them myself a some years ago. I remember paying between $30 - $50 a piece. A couple of board members have them now. Three of them were very nicely toned...the coins, not the board members...image

    Cheers,

    Bob
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭
    Damn.

    I thought that these routinely sold for around $300?

    Oh Well.

    I have one coming directly from Mel along with a couple of other obscure overstrikes which I've personally never seen.

    One, his first counterstruck coin, commemorating the Mars Viking Landing on a BiCentennial IKE and one, his second counterstruck coin, commemorating the "Turkey" counterstruck onto a 1961 Franklin Half Proof.
    I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.



    The name is LEE!
  • Billet7Billet7 Posts: 4,923 ✭✭✭
    People hoarding them has driven up the value....ahem!!!
  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,308 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Damn.

    I thought that these routinely sold for around $300?

    Oh Well.

    I have one coming directly from Mel along with a couple of other obscure overstrikes which I've personally never seen.

    One, his first counterstruck coin, commemorating the Mars Viking Landing on a BiCentennial IKE and one, his second counterstruck coin, commemorating the "Turkey" counterstruck onto a 1961 Franklin Half Proof. >>



    Wow, I'd like to see those when you get them....
    Here's my Mel Wacks collection...It seems you've found a few good'ens

    Camp David Peace Summit Prototype Peace Dollar
    image

    Camp David Peace Summit 1922 Peace Dollar
    image

    1979 Pope John Paul II Visits Mexico 1965 Peso
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    1981 Reagan Inauguration 1976-S Silver Ike
    image

    1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics 1971-S Proof Siver Ike
    image

    1980 USA Hockey
    image

    1979 Year of the Child
    image

    Charles and Di Wedding
    image

    George Washington 250
    image

    Statue of Lib. Double Golden Anniv. Eisenhower
    (Not Mel Wacks image )
    image

    Statue of Lib. Double Golden Anniv. Kennedy Half
    (Not Mel Wacks image )
    image

    1984 Harry Truman Centennial on 1971-S Ike
    image

    International Association Of Professional Numismatists 1980 - Stamped on a 1776-1976 p Eisenhower
    image

    1981 Freedom Dollar; 1971-s proof Ike - 444 pieces
    image :
    Others?
  • davewesendavewesen Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Did Mel make this one? or somebody else?

  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,475 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @19Lyds said:
    Damn.

    I thought that these routinely sold for around $300?

    Oh Well.

    I think they are routinely offered for $300,but not sure if they actually sell for that,

  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 5, 2018 9:59AM

    Some of the Camp David Peace dollars have really nice toning now. I’ve been tempted.

    Private Mint News | 2010 Lincoln Reverse Finalists
  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,475 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have a Camp David Peace dollar but not the Mel Wacks one. Mine was done by someone else (a simpler design, with an eagle).

    One word on the mintages - Mel often (usually?) did not strike the full "authorized" (by him) mintages, so many are far less common than their planned mintage might suggest.

    Somewhere I have a "Bicentaler" (200 years of the MT Taker) which as I recall had an actual mintage that was a fraction of the planned one.

  • TreashuntTreashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭

    6 year old thread

    Frank

    BHNC #203

  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow! Someone really had to dig for this one!

  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭

    On another note, I just bought another one today...


  • carabonnaircarabonnair Posts: 1,451 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 6, 2018 10:27AM

    This resurrected thread got me to look up the one Mel Wacks piece I have. Thanks, everybody!

    Mintage 500, on proof 1971-S dollars
    And here is an article by Mel about the tokens:
    http://www.tokenandmedal.org/Journal/Journal_files/Counterstamped_Coins_of_Mel_Wacks.pdf

    Edited to add a current website link of all his counterstamps: http://www.amuseum.org/jahf/wacks-counterstamps.html

    Gawain

    Pacific Northwest Numismatic Association
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    These are really nice... I looked at them years ago... then got sidetracked on gold and planning to retire.... I should check the local antique shops...they get in some stuff from time to time... usually overpriced...Cheers, RickO

  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,475 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @carabonnair said:
    And here is an article by Mel about the tokens:
    http://www.tokenandmedal.org/Journal/Journal_files/Counterstamped_Coins_of_Mel_Wacks.pdf

    Edited to add a current website link of all his counterstamps: http://www.amuseum.org/jahf/wacks-counterstamps.html

    Thx for that link. Glad to see his latest ones are out there, too. I did get the Pope one, and the Einstein one, and I forgot about his last one - the Hogge Penny commem. I think (not sure) I got that one. I'll have to look for it.

  • EXOJUNKIEEXOJUNKIE Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm addicted to exonumia ... it is numismatic crack!

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