POTUS who collected coins as a hobby
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Harry S. Truman https://www.kansascityfed.org/moneymuseum/harry-s-truman-coin-collection/
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Teddy worked with St. Gaudens to design the eagle and double. I’d wouldn’t be surprised if he had a few put back.
They all collected coins - it's called tax money -
"When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"
FDR was famous as a stamp collector but he also collected coins.
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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I visited the little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia last year, on the way to Callaway Gardens. Vacation and rehab home of RDR. They have a lot of his stuff on display and I was surprised to see a display with a LOT of silver Roosevelt Dimes emblematic of the March for Dimes campaign. So, at least in that arena he was a coin collector.
They have a wishing well on the property, I remember visiting when I was 5 or 6 (1955 or 1956) and dropping some coins in there and making wishes. It is covered over now but I wonder what happened to all those wish coins that were tossed in all those years ago.
I hear nothing about stamp collecting these days.
How soon one forgets.
A coin collector president.
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John Quincy Adams had an extensive collection of ancient coins, further augmented by some of his descendants, which was eventually sold by Stacks in 1971. Many coins aren't particularly high value but the pedigree carries a significant premium.
Those are probably all Trump silver rounds back there.
Bob van Ryzin had a neat article in the recent Numismatic News about this.
He never collected those dimes while he was alive. Presidents can only be put on coins after their death. Federal Law.
Stamp collecting seems to be the popular choice among many wealthy. The excellent artwork and promotion of US history which our freedoms and diversity have made prominent in the world. We had a family friend, Walter Richards, who designed many American stamps, his wife was the leading artist for miniatures.
Coins require quite a few steps to go to production. As Roger Burdette wrote in his book there was a "golden age" for coins and artistic designs.
How many US Presidents or Vice Presidents were actually coin collectors?
Those are challenge coins
Almost POTUS, Aaron Burr had a collection.
A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.
A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.
While the ANA WFoM was running in Chicago this year, there was a stamp show upstairs
being held. I didn't walk the entire bourse, but there were 25+ dealers there. A wide variety
of U.S. and foreign to choose from. No charge for admittance. I didn't recognize any expensive
foreign stamps, I did see a couple of blocks of Zepps along with singles. One dealer had dozens
of errors. I bought $50 worth of Hungarian stamps. The dealer that sold them to me had several
thousand stamps with him. I'm 64 years old and except for a couple of others, I was the youngest
collector there by 10 years. The dealers I talked to were very friendly and helpful. The stamp
hobby is generally alive and well. There are auctions, maybe not on the level of Stacks/ Bowers,
Heritage or Legend, but they occur. Stamp collecting is doing quite well in Europe and Asia.
The 1926 Sesquicentennial Commemorative half dollar shows the then current President Coolidge.
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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Better view of President Eisenhower acknowledgement donation letter.
It's not strange that a POTUS collector would use the US Mint to strike a series of medals for his personal use?
One wonder how and where Dwight Eisenhower acquired the "rare gold tael of Manchuria" and the "group of Mexican gold coins of the 20th Century".
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Diplomatic gifts?
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
President U S Grant spent all the coins he got. I know of several that were sent to him that never ended up being saved. Created a dead end in some of my research.
bob
John Quincy Adams is the only President I know of that had interesting coins from a collector perspective, meaning they are available to collect, and not generic lower condition coins.
Here's one I love which needs JQA on the insert!
It's great that Truman had a St. Gaudens and Ike had a Flowing Hair dollar!
All of them. It's part of their job description.......The main part.
Presidents don't have collections. They have hoards. .......Your collection is their hoard.
Bill Clinton collected currency,,,,,,,,,,, lots of it.
The coin collection is back!
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Larger collection
GW collected his GW gold coin.
https://www.mountvernon.org/about/news/article/mount-vernon-displays-rare-1792-gold-coin
Those are military challenge coins. If you go to a bar and drop a challenge coin on the bar, the person or persons that don't have a challenge coin on them buys. And the person that has the highest coin also gets drinks bought for them. My presidential coin got me many drinks. Got from president Clinton aboard a C-5 for work done in special missions. I DOUBT those military coins weren't "given" to him. Probably coerced by his staff. Or other suck-ups!
The coin collection has been removed or moved and has been replaced by a large round medal of Abraham Lincoln.
The Abraham Lincoln figure appeared a few days before the cent stoppage order.
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His latest? Calling all cents!
A penny for your thoughts DJT…..
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My denarius from the 1971 Stack's auction when the Massachussets Historical Society deaccessioned the coins of the John Quincy Adams Family Collection
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