Central States newps and report.
Lakesammman
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Had a good time - started out by meeting Boiler78, seeing a few of his coins and subsequently driving to Milwaukee. Played 18 that PM at a local course in the cold/wind.
PNG day was a bit slow. It was good to see several old friends. Sold a Paquet cathedral medal to the boys at CRO. Found a 1828 CBH for the date run. No major purchases this week.
Thursday was a bit odd. Dealer set up and not open to the public! Sprang for a EB pass since it was too cold to golf. Found 3 beaver tokens from Kreljevich. They are from the Clifford collection with the 1/4 piece missing. In reviewing the 1982 B&R catalog today, it was described as mint w/o attempted punch/hole, so it was cherry picked some where along the way.
The letters mean Hudson Bay, East Main (east of Hudson Bay), 1 (or 1/2, 1/4, etc) "made beaver" with "made" misabreviated. Struck in 1857 in England.
Friday Boiler and I headed to Kohler, home of this years PGA championship. We played 32 holes - the 2nd round interupted by a very impressive thunderstorm!
On the way home was seated next to Bob Korver, one of the HA auctioneers, on BOTH the Mil-Chicago and the Chi-Seattle flights. He was a delight to talk to and it made the trip pass very quickly, talking coins most of the way.
PNG day was a bit slow. It was good to see several old friends. Sold a Paquet cathedral medal to the boys at CRO. Found a 1828 CBH for the date run. No major purchases this week.
Thursday was a bit odd. Dealer set up and not open to the public! Sprang for a EB pass since it was too cold to golf. Found 3 beaver tokens from Kreljevich. They are from the Clifford collection with the 1/4 piece missing. In reviewing the 1982 B&R catalog today, it was described as mint w/o attempted punch/hole, so it was cherry picked some where along the way.
The letters mean Hudson Bay, East Main (east of Hudson Bay), 1 (or 1/2, 1/4, etc) "made beaver" with "made" misabreviated. Struck in 1857 in England. Friday Boiler and I headed to Kohler, home of this years PGA championship. We played 32 holes - the 2nd round interupted by a very impressive thunderstorm!
On the way home was seated next to Bob Korver, one of the HA auctioneers, on BOTH the Mil-Chicago and the Chi-Seattle flights. He was a delight to talk to and it made the trip pass very quickly, talking coins most of the way.
"My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
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Thanks for the report. Sounds like fun.
Being a casual collector of Canadian (pre decimal) tokens, those beaver tokens are quite interesting.....I have never seen these before. I have seen the Northwest beaver tokens, but not these. Neat pick ups!
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
If it has a strong undertype - I WANT IT!!!
As always, good to see you too, Rick.
Sounds like Tiger.
I always look forward to your show reports. Not necessarily for the coins, but rather for info on the golf courses of the region and wether or not they are worth playing
Met Charmy (Penny Lady) and her son. Picked up a first year IHC (1859 under a hundy) for a customer.
Talked to Cliff Mishler for a while and introduced him to my brother in law. Since I was there with Walmann, I was given the opportunity to tell him that the "M" in the KM numbers stood for "Mishler" and the "K" for Krause. He didn't know that.
Dick Osburn's table of coins had me mesmerized ( Mrs O/ or Ruth as her name tag said, was very nice)
There was a fellow who's name was Mike ( loaded with TYPE coins). Gainsville Collectibles or Coins (dont' rightly recall the name) had so much gold and silver it seemed a miner's hat was in order at their table
The boys are CRO forgave me for being such a smart alec on the boards.
My first stop was at the PCGS table. They've got my credit card number and a bunch of coins.
One of the highligts came while sitting down at Tom Reynolds' table talking EAC's for a few minutes A fellow I've recognized in pictures showed up at the table while I was there. His name is Bob Evans and unfortunately I wasn't able to stay for his exhibit on Sunday covering the S.S. Republic shipwreck.
He was explaining how how the coins taken from the shipwreck had to be "conserved". Interestingly he had two larger pieces of "crust" or what I suppose is called the remnants of fossilization that surrounded the coins. He spoke of how diligent one must be in the process and how most of the "crust" just breaks away, but in some cases it comes off the coin in larger chunks.
Then he said to Tom Reynolds, "look at how this captured the luster", as he pulled two fragile fragments from a small box.
I asked to snap a photo using a camera recently purchased from Broadstruck and Mr Evans obliged.
The show was my first major and though it was twice as much driving time as the time I spent at the show, it was well worth it.
If I had the time, I would have gone golfing, too.
The most disappointing thing was leaving the show with a 1931 brown wheatie in good condtion. I carried it all the way to Milwaukee as a peace offering to Laura, but she had already left.
``https://ebay.us/m/KxolR5
Nope. And it looks like it didn't meet reserve even though there were 9 bidders on the coin.
Speety - on Friday we played the original championship course at Black Wolf Run. They split it up years ago and made 2 18-hole courses. When they host a tourney (US Womens Open this year) they recombine the course into the old Championship course. Not many opportunities to play it so if you get a chance, it's worth the trip. Only $60 before 5-6-10, $200 thereafter.
I saw Rick's CWT over FE and it is a fantastic piece - and I understand it's very rare to be struck on a Flying Eagle. I'd love to add it to my own collection but I don't think Rick will part with it, at least not for a while!
The Penny Lady®
Here is the overstrike It's labeled as 630bk-1do(1858) (630 = New York, bk= Ed Shaff, 1= reverse die, d= CuNi, o=overstrike):
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One of the highligts came while sitting down at Tom Reynolds' table talking EAC's for a few minutes A fellow I've recognized in pictures showed up at the table while I was there. His name is Bob Evans and unfortunately I wasn't able to stay for his exhibit on Sunday covering the S.S. Republic shipwreck.
He was explaining how how the coins taken from the shipwreck had to be "conserved". Interestingly he had two larger pieces of "crust" or what I suppose is called the remnants of fossilization that surrounded the coins. He spoke of how diligent one must be in the process and how most of the "crust" just breaks away, but in some cases it comes off the coin in larger chunks.
Then he said to Tom Reynolds, "look at how this captured the luster", as he pulled two fragile fragments from a small box.
I asked to snap a photo using a camera recently purchased from Broadstruck and Mr Evans obliged.
The show was my first major and though it was twice as much driving time as the time I spent at the show, it was well worth it.
If I had the time, I would have gone golfing, too.
The most disappointing thing was leaving the show with a 1931 brown wheatie in good condtion. I carried it all the way to Milwaukee as a peace offering to Laura, but she had already left.
Buy the coin, not the crust.