Rare 1906 Gilt Pike's Peak HK-337 makes an appearance (Shevlin-Perry specimen)
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The Zebulon Montgomery Pike Southwest Expedition So-Called Dollar is one of the more interesting Colorado related pieces.
Here are photos of the rare Jeff Shevlin Specimen by Chad Robinson, so this can be the Shevlin-Robinson specimen.
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Doing a bit more research on this specific piece indicates it's from the Josiah Perry @JP_Coins collection. So it appears the pedigree is:
Great piece @JP_Coins and @SoCalledGuy!
Background: https://coins.www.collectors-society.com/wcm/CoinView.aspx?sc=381836
I've said this before, but I wish Jeff Shevlin would stop putting his pedigree on all the slabs he sells. It's annoying. Most (if not all) of the medals are not from his collection, right? So why slab them with "Jeff Shevlin Collection" on the label? Seems a bit cheap to me, not to mention misleading.
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
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@DCW, it's marketing hype at maybe its worst and a bit of an ego thing, but we all collect differently.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety," --- Benjamin Franklin
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I don't mind the pedigree that much given so little pedigree information that there is out there, so any little bit is of value for traceability at the moment. To me, it's a bit like the Nafzger and Hansen pedigrees. You need to know a bit about the pedigree when you research the pieces. Of note, I did get one piece of Jeff's in my collection reslabbed with my pedigree and his previous pedigree, so I do value it personally.
An interesting thing is that from talking to Jeff is that it seems like some of his rarest pieces are not slabbed yet. I wonder what will happen to them in the future?
Here's a list of So-Called Dollar pedigrees. It could be interesting to have a write up on each collector, kind of like Zerbe did for early Lesher Dollar collectors.
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/951173/so-called-dollar-pedigrees
If anybody ever buys an Elder piece that they can match to a picture in my article they are welcome to contact me and ask if I used to own it, and if I did put "ex-DeLorey Collection" on the slab. I do have the original black and white photos used in the article somewhere, and I think everything I used was mine except of course for the background story art that the Editor dug up from the ANA archives.
Ever since the Hibler-Kappen catalog was published in 1961, So-Called Dollars have been the classic commemoratives of the exonumia field. Today's market is no exception.
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Welcome to the group!
Thats awesome! Thanks for joining us and we hope you stick around to bring fresh perspective. We dont have enough exonumia guys
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
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I would say that the outstanding question is which variety Hibler & Charley Kappen cataloged as HK-337 - the bright finish or the matte finish? I speculate that they weren't aware of both otherwise they would have given them separate HK #'s as they did for the bright & matte finish silver medals.
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Free Advertising for Jeff, who is a heck of a nice guy....... unfortunately my customers agree with you and I usually have to resubmit them to sell them... we actually pay less on them when we buy to cover this cost....
Pedigree - Shemdigree, The pedigree just means a monied collector spent extra bucks to personalize his collection. Kudos to them. I've got a few examples in my collection and they all stack the same in slab holders...
No Problem!
I bought a XF gold plated example on eBay, "buy it now" for less than $200. It had just been listed. Naturally I grabbed it. There are still some out there.