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Name a great collection built mostly in 1970-85
MrEureka
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Name a great collection built mostly in 1970-85. My beginning days in the hobby. Before PCGS. Not many great ones, but why? Interesting. Try naming them.
Andy Lustig
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
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Interesting observation. I don't know but collecting was popular before 1970 but then silver was taken out of coins. In the 1970s, we saw high inflation and the economy didn't get back on its legs until Reagan.
Probably more of them flew under the radar back then than can now. Some may not be sold even now.
I don’t know much about the Knoxville collection but maybe it would qualify? I always wondered why they named it that since my understanding is the collector had no connection to that city at all.
The Crypto Collection of VF large Cents by the roll.... it seemed great to me in the early 80s
11.5$ Southern Dollars, The little “Big Easy” set
The Jack H. Robinson and Robinson Brown, Jr. collections of Large Cents sold by Superior Galleries in the late 1980s come to mind.
Check out some of my 1794 Large Cents on www.coingallery.org
The Floyd Starr collection of Early Copper, sold by Stacks in 1984 but collected for many decades prior to 1980. The Herman Halpern collection of Large Cents sold by Stacks in 1988 was a great collection of Early Copper.
Check out some of my 1794 Large Cents on www.coingallery.org
Starr died at least a decade before the 1984 sale. A chunk of his large cents came out of the 1945 Newcomb Sale (Part II), bought en bloc by Starr. Ted Naftzger, in turn, bought a bunch of Starr's large cents. There are a number of slabbed large cents with the Newcomb-Starr-Naftzger provenance on the insert.
RMR: 'Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?'
CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]
Not sure why, but I hear more about the Newcomb and Naftzger provenances than Starr.
I have no idea why I responded?
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I started my collection long before 1970, still building and a long, long way from 'great'...
....However, I will continue working on it...Cheers, RickO
Mine!
it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide
Pogue. I remember reading Coins Magazine articles in the late 70s about a kid my age named Brent Pogue who was buying rarities while I was saving up mowing money for a $20 silver dollar.