Who Has'um All?

The Eliasberg Collection is the most inspiring story in collecting over all.

Actually if he wanted to he could probably come pretty close fairly quickly. Almost all of the US coins are available on the market so 99% of the collection could be assembled fairly quickly and easily. This just leaves those few ultrararities. But even most of those come on the market on a fairly regular basis. That leaves maybe a half dozen or so that only appear every few decades. But several of those would probably be acquirable by private treaty sale. That just leaves the one or two items that are permanently impounded in museums. Which is I think just either the 1870-S three dollar gold or the 1822 half eagle. One or the other of those is in the Bass collection but I think everything else is in theory possible. It pretty much could be done if someone wanted to put the money toward doing so.

Then of course there is the possible, never endless, amount and variety of error coins. As fast as anyone finds one, there are always more.


Then consider all the fakes, Private Mints, tokens, mills, Confederat money, etc. and you have an endless amount of everything. I noticed you also said US Currency. Did you also mean paper money? There again, a massive amount.

And Eliasberg had a network of dealers locating those ultrararities for him as well. I do think that if someone wanted to put the money toward it it could be done.

Wow I surely wish to own even a quarter of that collection.
For US coins, I only have common silver ones and wheaties.

Why can't I have friends like that?

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So I wonder who has the most complete collection right now? If one had say a billion dollar budget, even the museum's would part with their ultra-rarities.
Hey CCF should try to get Bill Gates to sponsor a complete collection and we could be the workforce of experts hunting for the missing pieces.