Is jonathan kern reputable?
fruitloops
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I recently bought a vietnamese gold bar from jonathan kern from the huge phoenix coin show. Due to the recent influx of chinese fakes recently, I'm going to have the bar tested for purity. It says pure gold (OR PUR) on the bar.
Has anyone dealt with this person and can verify this person is reputable? He is a very nice, ANA life member, if that says anything.
Here is his website: http://www.jkerncoins.com/
Has anyone dealt with this person and can verify this person is reputable? He is a very nice, ANA life member, if that says anything.
Here is his website: http://www.jkerncoins.com/
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Edited to say: based on new information.....I have no comment.
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Steve
You need not worry about the gold bar you bought from him.
He sells a lot of ancient coins. I asked him once how a fella could know for certain they were not fakes.
He said, "be there when they dig them up".
Ray
And, I bought some things from him at the ANA show.
By the way, Jonathan made mention to me that the Vietnamese gold wafers are actually manufactured in Los Angeles and then exported to Vietnam. They are a cool item though.
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I dealt with him 25 yrs ago and even then he was a pleasure to work with.
Steve
The bar is about 1/4 oz pure gold (7.79 grams) I paid $300 for it after some negoitation. I've heard they trade for around bullion. He told me it has a 20% collectors premium. (Maybe the smaller ones do?) The orginial price was around $330. Was this a good price to pay? I had no idea.
Here's a picture of it by the way. I'm very pleased with it.
I also trust Jonathan Kern implicitly.
He gave me an incredible 2 year full money back guarantee on a 1856 FE cent that I paid $7200 for a few years back. Unheard of.
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<< <i>Isn't he like one of only a few who have a degree in numismatics too?
Steve >>
I thought I had read that he had a Doctorate.....
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<< <i>Isn't he like one of only a few who have a degree in numismatics too?
Steve >>
I thought I had read that he had a Doctorate..... >>
You may be thinking of Donald Kagin.
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of 1.205 ounces of gold (same as the
Mexico 50 Peso coin). (37.5 grs., I believe
They came usually in three pieces totaling 1.205 oz.
of pure, soft gold. They were manufactured by many
different jewelers and manufacturer's in Vietnam
before the Fall of Saigon in 1975. They all came in
brown wrapping paper, with the same design on the
gold pieces being on the outside of the paper wrapper.
The vast majority of them were brought to the U.S.
by the refugee's fleeing the new Communist Gov't;
an historical use of gold/value being used by people
fleeing conflicts of varying types over the centuries.
I was working for a company in Bevery Hills (Numismatics, Ltd.)
at that time, and we were buying huge quantities of these
Taels from some other dealers who were able to set up
Money Exchanges at Camp Pendelton (near San Diego),
who were buying the gold Taels from the refugees for
U.S. Dollars. The gold that the "Boat People" sold here
helped them get a foothold in this county, and helped
finance their new business ventures, paying rent, etc.
Out of the many, many, thousands that I saw, they all
were like the small piece (or larger) pictured at the top of
this thread...............the jeweler/manufacturer's name,
Vietnames lettering, etc........but no "pictures" of anything
I ran across one, and one only, that had a dipiction (sp?) of an
old Vietnamese man with a deer/elk on all three pieces.
Since it was the only one I had seen with more than just
words/lettering, I bought it, framed it, and still have it here
in my office.
I have to assume that there are others like mine out there, but
I've been looking since 1975 for another, and have not seen or
heard of one anywhere.....
Hope this info adds a bit to your historical Vietnamese Tael.
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<< <i>Isn't he like one of only a few who have a degree in numismatics too?
Steve >>
I thought I had read that he had a Doctorate..... >>
His degree infromation.. interesting research he did.
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