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scubafuelscubafuel Posts: 1,877 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited December 7, 2024 8:18AM in U.S. Coin Forum

This is a thread for those of us who love to know where a coin has been before we owned it. And there is something fun about having a tangible link to historical figures or previous giants of numismatics. Post em if you know em.

Here is a 1839 Proclamation scudo from Bolivia that has been in the Eliasberg, Clapp, Newcomer, and Jenks collection. It can be tracked back to the late 1800s

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  • BarberianBarberian Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Is a Berlinghof 73-CC WA half dollar considered a pedigreed coin? It's a hoard of mostly low-grade CC halves.

    3 rim nicks away from Good
  • habaracahabaraca Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @asheland said:
    Not a coin, but I bought an early spoon about 10 years ago that I later found pictured in a book published originally in 1926:

    It was owned back then by Lionel Alfred Crichton (Crichton Brothers) of London:

    spoons do not look the same to me, one in book has slight curve and slightly different top

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,304 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Boosibri said:
    Here are a few. Forgive the fact that they aren’t US.

    These coins were legal tender in the US until 1857 so we forgive you. ;)B)

    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

  • CatbertCatbert Posts: 7,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @pursuitofliberty said:
    I think the CBH guys will recognize these names. In some cases I have a few that have passed through these collectors hands

    ex Parsley


    I'm sorry, but you are missing a herb or three.

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    "Got a flaming heart, can't get my fill"
  • pursuitoflibertypursuitofliberty Posts: 7,007 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Catbert said:

    @pursuitofliberty said:
    I think the CBH guys will recognize these names. In some cases I have a few that have passed through these collectors hands

    ex Parsley

    I'm sorry, but you are missing a herb or three.

    :D:D:D Oh man, Cat Dan ... that can go SO many ways! :D:D:D

    So many ways to interpret that statement.
    '
    1. I'm really more of a garlic fan. Maybe a little basil, sage and oregano. :p
    2. If you really know me, you might know that the amount of "herb" I consumed (grew, distributed, etc) as a young man would far exceed the space we have (or the brain cells I have left) to discuss here. ;)
    3. I like Herb @Herb_T , and am sorry to see he is leaving the specialty. I have one of his coins that he sold me a couple years ago, a fantastic, well struck 1810 O-102a in P55. I have not picked up one of his coins in the recent sales, but I might still. B)
    4. And finally, if it is about that Herb, I also didn't include CBH's from Davignon, Friedman, Gerrie, Herrman, Keigwin, Long, Manevitz, Osborne, Ross and others which I am also fortunate enough to possess. With one exception, those guys are all still actively collecting so far as I know. :)


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  • oldabeintxoldabeintx Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @PerryHall said:

    @Boosibri said:
    Here are a few. Forgive the fact that they aren’t US.

    These coins were legal tender in the US until 1857 so we forgive you. ;)

    Not all were LT.

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,304 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @oldabeintx said:

    @PerryHall said:

    @Boosibri said:
    Here are a few. Forgive the fact that they aren’t US.

    These coins were legal tender in the US until 1857 so we forgive you. ;)

    Not all were LT.

    I was referring to the coins that Boosibri posted. Which ones weren't legal tender in the US before 1857?

    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

  • oldabeintxoldabeintx Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @PerryHall said:

    @oldabeintx said:

    @PerryHall said:

    @Boosibri said:
    Here are a few. Forgive the fact that they aren’t US.

    These coins were legal tender in the US until 1857 so we forgive you. ;)

    Not all were LT.

    I was referring to the coins that Boosibri posted. Which ones weren't legal tender in the US before 1857?

    Argentina and Ecuador. Once the SA and CA countries achieved independence, their coins may or may not have been given LT status. Chile and Peru did make the cut.

  • oldabeintxoldabeintx Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I should add that these coins may well have been used in commerce. I’ve added some to my LT type just in case.

  • david3142david3142 Posts: 3,555 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @drddm said:
    Ex. Eliasberg

    Ex. Prouty

    Ex. Hamilton

    Ex. Friend

    Ex. McClerg, Queller

    Ex. Brown

    Ex. Witham

    Ex. Solomon

    Ex. Myers

    Ex. Reiver

    Ex. Hawn, Queller

    Dave

    Wow! Superb coins and a great array of provenances. I think you nailed this thread.

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  • jt88jt88 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 10, 2024 6:15PM

    China Qing Dynasty Emperor Shi Zu (1638-1661) gold good luck amulet. 24k solid gold. Treasures from the W&L Collection. Not sure who is W&L.

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,285 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What a great thread!

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