Isn't it funny....there's probably a whole slew of numis out there thinking "why would I want to go to a thread of pictures of a bunch of old coin guys????.....doesn't sound like any fun to me...."
Walker Proof Digital Album 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......
1794 Whist match in Cocoa Beach, Florida in 1979. Participants are, left to right: Tom Morley (red jacket)-Myles Gerson (cigarette)-Del Bland (center)-Denis Loring (examining coin) with George Ewing hidden behind him.
Some "Boyz of 1794" at the Manassas [VA] battlefield-April 2010. l. to r. Chuck Heck, Nathan Markowitz, Mark Borckardt, Tory Denman (red) Jim Neiswinter, Bim Gander (tan jacket), Scott Barrett (yellow shirt), Dan Trollan (blackcap), Steve Ellsworth (center beige jacket), Al Boka, Terry Denman, Sam Foose, Walt Husak
I don't have a copy of it, but maybe 20-ish years ago there was a series of auctions named 'Breen'. This was before TSHTF regarding him. I don't remember why he had his name associated with these auctions, but the picture they had of him was impressive. A head shot, just about profile, wild beard and long grey hair in a ponytail. He reaqlly looked like a genius wild man, and I guess he was. >>
The one where he is backlit so that it looks like his hair is like a halo, and his eyes look out past the horizon to maintain his contact with an ineffable wisdom, deeper than eternity, that most of us can only dream exists?
Used in perhaps more than one First Coinvestors auction catalogue or fixed price list circa 1971-73. >>
Advanced collector of BREWERIANA. Early beer advertising (beer cans, tap knobs, foam scrapers, trays, tin signs, lithos, paper, etc)....My first love...U.S. COINS!
Heres a pretty lousy photo of a famous Numismatist.... (I guess we all know who it is. Very few people wear mustard colored checkered sport coats these days)
<< <i>Dunno about famous, but I think this one is a coin doctor. >>
Not true. He does no actual "work" himself (though some definition I read recently said to "enable" doctoring was to be a doctor.
But he has a lot of respect within the "club" for the job he's been doing as quality control compliance officer for the CCC (Coin Cosmetologists Collective)
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Geo. Orwell
<< <i>Former President and long-time Governor of the ANA, Grover Criswell ...
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At one time he was the richest man in the world..................in Confederate money.
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
This elusive character can often be found in the company of some of the hobby elite. I'll award a prize to the first to correctly ID (in this thread) this person. Good Luck. ______________________
This elusive character can often be found in the company of some of the hobby elite. I'll award a prize to the first to correctly ID (in this thread) this person. Good Luck.
No fair. You won your own prize!
Andy Lustig
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
<< <i>This elusive character can often be found in the company of some of the hobby elite. I'll award a prize to the first to correctly ID (in this thread) this person. Good Luck.
No fair. You won your own prize! >>
Absolutely wrong MrEureka. Now go back and read my post for the obvious clue. But alas, since you are the OP of this thread you are DQ! My my my...
Walker Proof Digital Album 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......
"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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Little do they know how much fun we're havin'!
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......
EAC 6024
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<< <i>This is a fun thread!
I don't have a copy of it, but maybe 20-ish years ago there was a series of auctions named 'Breen'. This was before TSHTF regarding him. I don't remember why he had his name associated with these auctions, but the picture they had of him was impressive. A head shot, just about profile, wild beard and long grey hair in a ponytail. He reaqlly looked like a genius wild man, and I guess he was. >>
The one where he is backlit so that it looks like his hair is like a halo, and his eyes look out past the horizon to maintain his contact with an ineffable wisdom, deeper than eternity, that most of us can only dream exists?
Used in perhaps more than one First Coinvestors auction catalogue or fixed price list circa 1971-73. >>
<< <i>Dunno about famous, but I think this one is a coin doctor.
Not true. He does no actual "work" himself (though some definition I read recently said to "enable" doctoring was to be a doctor.
But he has a lot of respect within the "club" for the job he's been doing as quality control compliance officer for the CCC (Coin Cosmetologists Collective)
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
Jim Charlton, 99 years old now.
DPOTD-3
'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'
CU #3245 B.N.A. #428
Don
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A fine looking numismatist indeed!! :-)
<< <i>Former President and long-time Governor of the ANA, Grover Criswell ...
At one time he was the richest man in the world..................in Confederate money.
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
I'll award a prize to the first to correctly ID (in this thread) this person. Good Luck.
______________________
"Everything is on its way to somewhere. Everything." - George Malley, Phenomenon
http://www.american-legacy-coins.com
No fair. You won your own prize!
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
<< <i>This elusive character can often be found in the company of some of the hobby elite. I'll award a prize to the first to correctly ID (in this thread) this person. Good Luck.
No fair. You won your own prize! >>
Absolutely wrong MrEureka. Now go back and read my post for the obvious clue. But alas, since you are the OP of this thread you are DQ!
"Everything is on its way to somewhere. Everything." - George Malley, Phenomenon
http://www.american-legacy-coins.com
Unless, of course, I'm right!
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
"Everything is on its way to somewhere. Everything." - George Malley, Phenomenon
http://www.american-legacy-coins.com
<< <i>Anyone recognize this well known coin maven? Thats my uncle Guido!
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......
"Keep your malarkey filter in good operating order" -Walter Breen
–John Adams, 1826