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Valued Member
Canada
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@poboxw The RCM caters to a few of the larger dealers in Canada that is for sure. I will say one thing though when I had my shop years ago and Mr . Bromberg needed some stuff it sure was good for business. He paid fair prices and was a very quick pay. The shopping channel is fun to watch, but it is obvious he is preaching to a different congregation than us Numismatic types. That said if the show does make collectors out of any of the shoppers that is ultimately good for the hobby. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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this 1969 flip is a beautiful example with the date perfect on the queens head, to have two coins identical maybe but 15 examples, this coin is worth about 100.00
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Canada
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For those we didn't see the show last night, he told a tale about how the pennies were created.
It went something like this (again paraphrasing).
The blanks are in a bin and are pulled into the presses. They are struck and flipped into another bin and then packaged etc. But with these coins, after they were struck once, they magically flipped and rotated landing into the press for a second time and then were restruck. The resulting coins had a mix of the obverse and reverse patterns on both sides. They were then packaged, shipped and 'found' by collectors. Sound reasonable?
Maybe someday he'll tell us where the Easter Bunny lives.
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Valued Member
Canada
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Any other date than the 1969 and I will throw in Santa and the Toothfairy. These 1969 back door jobs are quite easy to find. As is the 1969 small date flip strike ten cents. Must have been very lucrative for the back door stuff in the late 60s
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I have a 1968 and a 1976 double struck, flip struck cents in collar.... they are very scarce (except for 1969, of course)...
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Valued Member
Canada
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Roger maybe the 68 was a back door warm up job!!  !! Just kidding ! Sure would be nice to know how much of that 69 stuff is around.? I even have my doubts about the Large date ten cents but that is another deep subject! J |
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@54dollarcoin:
I'll give you that. It's just that from his appearance (and his need to appear on tv himself now that I think about it) and reports of local dealers from my neck of the woods that have attended dinners and had to deal with the guy, I've not seen or heard one good thing said about the man.
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PB all I can say is what |I know from past dealings. The show is entertaining to watch though.!
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^I also find it entertaining; however, it is getting less entertaining for me now that he is focusing on NCLT's more. I have nothing against it, it is just getting saturated and I miss the ancient collections.
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I even have my doubts about the Large date ten cents but that is another deep subject!
I seem to recall it was discovered in circulation. The first example shown was scratched up mess. I suppose it could have been a clever seeding. Let some out into the wild to be discovered, and hold back the choice examples to profit on later. What is the population of high grade examples? It would be suspicious if the population is well circulated plus high grade. |
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