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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The only lame claim I can think of right now is being in Coin World weekly 4x the past 2 years for variety finds. Oh and my very first submission to NGC was a 1972 type 2 ike I found in an old shoe box from my childhood a few years back and came back MS64 Edited by Slamnbass
12/31/2016 4:46 pm
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CCF Advertiser
United States
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I was 16 years old and in NYC. I saw a sign that indicated a coin shop, so I went in. The proprietor introduced himself and asked me what I was interested in looking at. He just had some offices, not really a shop, and he told me he usually just meets clients by appointment, but he'll make an exception for me. He showed me around the place, showed me some Walkers and other coins, spoke with me for a while and then I left. It was years later I saw his name in the Red Book and realized he was a pretty big deal. His name was Lester Merkin. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have a bunch. I know Dr. Mike Fey, previously spoken about in this thread (as well as Jeff Oxman), and a bunch of other well known numismatists at the top of their respective fields. I've found close to a dozen new discovery VAMs, one of which John Roberts (know him too) featured in a Coin World article and in November I found a very rare raw coin in the wild (not a Morgan) that graded high and is worth in the $60-70k range. More to come on that when I'm ready to go public with it. It will be the featured item in an upcoming auction though. Oh, and I know this guy...  Edited by Cascade
12/31/2016 7:53 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
21788 Posts |
I have the SECOND biggest collection of modern machine struck square coins in the World. 82 different types and counting. A guy in Denmark has the biggest.  Almost all of them came from dealers' junk boxes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have also had a brush with numismatic fame. I have shared ideas with Stuart Devlin, who is responsible for all but one of the definitive designs of Australian Decimal Coinage. These designs have be in continuous production for more than 50 years. The bronze One and Two Cent designs are his also, but these denominations have been withdrawn from circulation. Edited by sel_69l
12/31/2016 8:18 pm
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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I have a nice 1868 Shield nickel, RPD FS 3.85. A really nice coin, but it has some environmental damage. I purchased it from TypeCoin971793 for $15 about this time last year. Has it been that long? Anways, its special because it was cherry picked from Bill Fivaz, who literally wrote the book on RPDs, at a coin show!   Although, thats nothing compared to being in a paragraph of the Numismatic News almost two years ago. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7390 Posts |
Didn't you discover the first Homestead DDR Child? |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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I own the most complete collection of PCGS graded 25mm Silver Proof Australian Dollar coins at the moment. Not what you would call a wise Investment But I like them  I also had the very first Australian 2000 Millennium 50c coin Graded and attributed by PCGS as an incused variety coin |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Quote:Didn't you discover the first Homestead DDR Child? Unfortunately it was the second specimen of the DDR-004... I was the first person to own one though.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Cascade who's the guy you're standing with ?
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Cascade who's the guy you're standing with ? Ken Bressett |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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November I found a very rare raw coin in the wild (not a Morgan) that graded high and is worth in the $60-70k range. Oh the suspense... I know Ken too. We talked about Chinese coins at the 2015 ANA Summer Seminar. |
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Pillar of the Community
Norway
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Lame numismatic claim to fame: I met the lady whose face has been on Dutch coins for over 30 years. @DL20K: I think Krause forgot about the other 139.000.000 minted that year... For what I know, almost 140.000.000 were minted.  |
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United States
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Lame numismatic claim to fame: I met the lady whose face has been on Dutch coins for over 30 years. Not lame at all. Thats actually pretty cool. Would be especially cool in the U.S. since all people featured on the coinage are dead. |
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Norway
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Would be especially cool in the U.S. since all people featured on the coinage are dead. The girl who portrays Sacagawea, Randy'L Teton, disagrees, methinks. She was just 22 when she modeled as the Shoshone woman in 1999. Anyway, do you have any clue of how old I am?  Edited by UltraRant
01/03/2017 1:58 pm
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Valued Member
United States
137 Posts |
Found a 1900 Keijo-Pusan Railway 50 Mun note, uncancelled (S-101a I think?) in the quarter bucket at my local store. Book value for VF is about $225? They treat me quite well so I told them and received some store credit as compensation. Always fun to be a foreign collector and look through "junk buckets" that dealers don't care about :)
Edit: have yet to meet anyone famous in the business per se
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01/11/2017 10:12 pm
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