Lame Claim To Numismatic Fame, Post Yours!

I have a holed 1864 British shilling that I bought from a dealer's junk tray long ago. A UK coin magazine once published a list of known Victorian die numbers and I discovered that my shilling had a previously unrecorded die number!

I can relate, that's hilarious.

Here's another one. I bought a VG10 1909 s vdb on ebay, that had previously been sold twice by Heritage.

My claim to fame is that I was lucky enough to view the Lilly Gold Coin Collection on display at the Smithsonian before it was taken down in 2002.
from the NGC site "The size and importance of the Smithsonian numismatic collection took another giant leap in 1968 with the acquisition of the Josiah Lilly (of Eli Lilly and Company) Collection of 6,150 gold coins from the United States and around the world. The Lilly Collection of United States gold coins was one of the finest and most complete ever assembled. The collection took an Act of Congress to acquire, as it was traded from the Lilly family for a tax credit that exceeded $5,000,000. The legendary dealer Abe Kosoff provided the appraisal. In 1972 the collection was put on semi-permanent display in a new gallery devoted to gold coins.

I was at the ANA show in Chicago a few weeks back and was pretty much window shopping when I came upon a dealers table and he was talkign to a customer who was seated and when I peered in to his cases of mainly Indian Head cents he handed me a flyer and said it was for his new book and if I wanted to look at anything in the case.

When I looked at the flyer it said Richard Snow.

I asked him if he was "The Richard Snow" (I know everyone says Rick Snow but I was caught off guard and the paper said Richard)

He said yes and I shook his hand and told him I was going to go on the internet and brag about meeting him

Bill Fivaz is a personal friend of mine

I have met Q. David Bowers

I've held the Eliasberg 1913 nickel and saw the other 4 at the same show

I've seen the Contoursi 1794 dollar

I've seen the King of Siam proof set

I put some AliExpress fakes in my type set as hole fillers and I showed my type set to some people at my coin club. Not being very experienced with fakes, although experienced numismatists, they thought all the coins were real, including my MS-65 RD 1793 chain cent and MS-63 1804 quarter. It was fun looking at their faces.

I got this $2 bill from THE Neil Shafer at a local club meeting.

He mentioned at last months meeting that he carried a 1964D half as a pocket piece (which he had on him and showed) which was used in the photo for the reverse mintmark position for the Kennedy half for the RedBook back when he worked for Whitman publishing back in the 1960's.

my mom(a travel agent) booked a trip for Steven Bromberg.