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Pillar of the Community
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i don't even know if "amazing" sums it up. Think about 30 years gone by and each day of those 10,950 days having some amount of time allocated and dedicated towards something that you never know is even attainable. There must have been days where thoughts of giving up seemed easier than pressing forward. I am beyond impressed with this.
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Bedrock of the Community
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 Well said. How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halveshttps://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2 |
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Bedrock of the Community
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And 30 years ago you couldn't hop online and browse ebay or google "1829 Overton 120 for sale"...much tougher to put together these kind of sets pre-Internet. Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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Pillar of the Community
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excellent point Paralyse
imagine not being able to browse thousands of coins with button presses for the first 20 years of this venture. I would love to know what percentage of the set was completed pre-2006 versus the past decade. My guess is 30% prior to online.
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I concur. If not for the internet, this set may certainly have been unobtainable in one lifetime.
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Bedrock of the Community
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I would have to guess that this guy is an early member of the Bust Half Nut Club, you need at least 100 die marriages to be considered for membership. The club would have also been a pre-internet source for some of the tougher varieties through B/S/T lists.
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06/02/2016 01:37 am
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Pillar of the Community
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I'm really angry that Chuck just beat me out in this competition. I was so close as I have 40 of these - I was just a few hundred coins away from winning. I'm sure I could have beat him if I had a long weekend to buy a few hundred more coins. Oh, reading further - his average grade was MS63? Is that better than VF25? Yikes...  Member ANA and EAC "You got to lose to know how to win". Dream On by Aerosmith Edited by cipster
06/01/2016 7:05 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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I concur. If not for the internet, this set may certainly have been unobtainable in one lifetime. N o it was possible preinternet. This gentleman is the second person to put together the full set and the other did it pre internet. (Or at most very early internet) His is the first Registry set. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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I can not imagine how hard putting that set together really was.
After getting ..say 90% ... I would think about everyone he looked st
he would ... Got that one.
And the thought of the average as PCGS MS 63 .... Thais just crazy.
I could take years just looking at a collection like that.
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Pillar of the Community
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If you look closely at the reverse of Chuck's 1829 o.120, its reverse is a later die state of same reverse used for 1831 o.104. My 1831 o.104 is definitely an earlier die state of said reverse.
However, the Leaman Gunnet emission order has 1829 o.120 just before 1831 o.104. Emission order numbers 348 and 349, respectively.
Interesting, eh?
Opinions?
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06/02/2016 12:32 am
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Pillar of the Community
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Wow, now that's a collection!
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I'm really angry that Chuck just beat me out in this competition. I was so close as I have 40 of these - I was just a few hundred coins away from winning. I'm sure I could have beat him if I had a long weekend to buy a few hundred more coins.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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*discovers new overton*
I'm sure chuck would FLIP out if/when that happened(s)
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Bedrock of the Community
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New VAMs get discovered fairly often for Morgans still. Bust Halves are older and have been studied for much longer, but there's always a possibility.
Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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