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Re: Is there any contemporary evidence that George Washington...
BillJones and others believing Breen, Taxay, and other earlier writings that they copied from - Oh, that I wish you have read the article in the 2003 COAC book by Joel Orosz. He explains the twisted misinformation about these interesting pieces. It was not Jonas McClintock, and there was no special room set aside for Adam… -
Re: CONTURSI SELLS THE 1794 $1 FOR ALMOST $8 MILLION!
Thanks everyone! It really in an incredible coin, one that I am very pleased and honored to be associated with. << <i> << <i>Amazing how so few facts are turned into such an elaborate story. Still, it's an amazing example of the first silver dollars. >> Well said. >> Like many coin stories, much has been said about this… -
Re: Over $15k already on a re-engraved coin!!! 1861-D G$1
It depends upon what you call, "a long history," and how much may have been covered up in the auction descriptions of years gone by. My experience is mostly limited to the coin magazines I read in the 1960s, the auction catalogs I reviewed in the '70s and '80s and what I saw at the coin stores and shows during the same… -
Re: Frederick Coin Show..
zenny: It's a complicated and tangled story. The "one confirmed specimen in private hands" that you mention might possibly be the one that Frank Gasparro had, that I mentioned above, or it may not. Ed Reiter of COINage had the opportunity of interviewing Frank before he died, and the highlight of his interview was when… -
Re: Still new at this... so looking for some opinions.
Flatten those staples down! :| No idea on RPMs or DDs, but the "struck through".... Visualize what happens with a struck through error - a foreign object gets between the planchet and dies and is stuck into the coin (it usually falls or wipes away and doe snot stay in place). So the error would be an indentation into the… -
Re: why do I see proof modern gold sold sometimes less than regular gold?
what do you do with 40 or 50 proofs in those cheesy looking packages? Do everyone a favor and smash the capsule scratch the coin and set fire to all that velvety garbage they swaddle it all in. Oh, the humanity! Hey, what do you expect from the Mint? It's the Mint!!! We're way past the time when "proof" was a test coin for… -
Re: whats in a name?
et tu burte??????? , now it is hark hark harkened he i am the east, and juliet is the sun, and he huffed and puffed, and smoked the house down, and they all blew up and died after the fell off the beanstalk and hit humpty dumpty in the head and he broke and they got some brains, a heart, home , a a can of spam, and lived… -
Re: O.T. The Monte Carlo is on fire!
should we also pray for everyone else who dies today? car accidents. fall down the stairs. tiger mauls them after a taunting. a soldier killed in iraq. a bum overdoses under a bridge. a heart attack takes a life of an elderly person. is it because this is las vegas that this is somehow worthy of attention? what about my… -
Re: Stack’s Bowers Galleries Partners with David Hall to Launch Collectible Market Qualified (CMQ)
In adding to Coinbuf's comment, ANACS graded several variety coins well before NGC and PCGS- Including Morgan VAMs and various double dies among others- such as the 1946 WLH DDR. I see no compelling reason not to accept ANACS graded coins such as these if it is really is about the coin. Further, seems the decision making… -
Re: Larry Bowa was just as good defensively as Ozzie Smith
I don't think anyone was arguing that dWAR was inherently accurate so I don't really know what you're trying to engage in here other than blasting people without understanding their words. Saying WAR is bad because the dWAR component is flawed or noisy or inaccurate or whatever... is a pure composition flaw. I understand…
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